‘That’s an awful question’: Nicole Kidman shuts down audience member in Q&A

OUCH. One poor audience member got more than he bargained for when he asked Nicole Kidman a question during a Q&A session for her latest film.

IT SEEMS Nicole Kidman hates audience Q&As as much as the rest of us.

The Aussie star shut down an audience member’s cheeky question at a post-screening Q&A for her latest film Destroyer at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Destroyer is just the latest in a string of transformative roles for Kidman, who this time ‘de-glams’ to play an LAPD cop plagued by past trauma who, as director Karyn Kusama told Vanity Fair, “wears her ugliness on the outside.”

Nicole in Destroyer: Shhh … it’s a wig. Picture: Annapurna Pictures

Given so many of Kidman’s recent roles — from Lion to Big Little Lies, Paddington to Top of the Lake — have seen her donning different wigs to create her characters, one plucky audience member asked the star an irreverent — but not unreasonable — question.

The audience member was a man by the name of Sam Herbst — a genuine Kidman fan who even hosts The Kidmanifesto described as “the first and only podcast dedicated to the queen of acting, Nicole Kidman.” (This is an excellent topic for a podcast, FYI).

News.com.au reached out to Herbst directly to find out just what he asked. Here’s his question in full:

“I’ve spent the last year ranking your movies by things like wigs and this movie is pretty wig-heavy; how do you think it ranks and do you have any other favorites?”

Nicole at the Destroyer premiere, wigless. Picture: Getty

In Lion. Another wig! But she doesn’t want to talk about it, OK!

Kidman’s response? “It’s a very wiggy movie? That’s an AWFUL question. I am shutting that question DOWN.”

The panel moderator then swiftly moved things along, taking another question.

Nicole Kidman shut this question down quick.

“I was a little embarrassed at first because I didn’t want her to think I was being trivial or reducing her craft to wigs or costumes, but now I think the whole thing is so funny,” Herbst told us.

“And she’s welcome to come on the podcast anytime to help me rank Destroyer.”

Let the record state: Nicole Kidman — wearer of wigs in just about every on-screen role she’s had for the past decade — is not here for your silly wig questions. Wig, okay.

@mrsamherbst: how would you rate your wigs in this movie

Nicole Kidman: pic.twitter.com/FldmmqJGY4

— Tom Zohar (@TomZohar) September 11, 2018

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