“Thank you for making me better at my craft and giving me a place, however temporary, in this world,' Kidman told the crowd of multigenerational A-listers.
spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: “
Streep and their “Big Little Lies” co-star Reese Witherspoon both did spot-on, Australian-accented impressions of Kidman that had the audience in stitches.“People call it bravery when an actress bares all and leaps off into the unknown and she dives deep into the darker parts of what it is to be a human being,” Streep said. “But I don’t think it’s bravery. I think it’s love. I think she just loves it.
She accepted the AFI award in the same venue where she accepted her Oscar in 2003 for playing Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.”She thanked by name every director she has worked with, including Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, Baz Luhrmann, Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sydney Pollack and Lars von Trier.
Others honoring her included Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Zoe Saldana and Mike Myers, who came on stage in disguise in one of the eerie orgy masks from “Eyes Wide Shut.” She had her breakthrough Hollywood role alongside him in 1990′s “Days of Thunder” — they would marry the same year — and also starred together in 1992′s “Far and Away” and in 1999 in Kubrick’s final film, “Eyes Wide Shut.”She divorced Cruise in 2001, but her stardom only grew in his wake. Some of her biggest roles, and her Oscar, were still to come.
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