How a Nicole KidmanHugh Grant drama series wound up becoming an inadvertent time capsule.
The Undoingpremieres October 25 on HBO.
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Nicole Kidman gets it.
She knows that youre bored in month seven of the pandemic and that portion control can be challenging.
moment that will frustrate viewers who want fast answers.
I hope people dont do that.
I hope that they go, Okay, Ill dip my toe in and Ill take the hour.
Because the state of waiting is a good state to exist in, isnt it?
Anyway, Kidman is not anti-binge.
Think of it as a time capsule of that eras innocent obsessions.
It was shot just a year ago, says one of the producers, Stephen Garrett.
That would be telling, something everyone involved inThe Undoingis currently pretzeling their language to avoid doing.
Their lives are artificial constructs in a certain way, Kelley says.
She says, I love psychological thrillers when theyre well done.
I said, Im very intrigued by the potential of a thriller.
I find it incredibly interesting, that whole thing of Who can I trust?
That was one of the biggest draws for me.
Doesnt matter if its a wonderful role he just doesnt want to work.
Its true, Grant says, laughing.
I do turn down a lot of things as I get older and crankier.
And Id never worked with Nicole, though Id teased her a lot at parties.
Im sure youre a great fan of thePaddingtonfilms as real cinephiles are!
And some people who have seen thosethink that were in them together, but were not.
She has spent her career doing rarefied, Oscar-winning pieces, while Ive done romantic comedies.
Our paths were never destined to cross much.
So if he is lying, hes one of those liars who believe their lies.
Do you know those people?
(As an example, he cites the current United States president.)
What survived was, among other things, the specificity of the New York locations.
All the creative principals agreed that Manhattan should be a character as much as a backdrop.
The most challenging thing is accessing some of those really high-end apartments, says producer Bruna Papandrea.
The actors get to ask all the questions.
I get to be provocative.
She can send people to the edge of destruction in the nicest possible way, says Garrett.
But she always makes her day.
I dont know who Ive turned into.
It was just me missing my kids.
I was doing the whole thing on jet lag and, I now see, sugar.
I watched the series the other day.
I thought it was about a dark secret in a privileged family.
It turns out its just about a fat man married to Nicole Kidman.
Ive never seen such weight on an actor you’re able to barely get me in the widescreen.
By the end, the shoot left both stars feeling ragged.
I tried to use it, because thats what you do.
I got quite sick when I was making it.
I did feel like I was going a bit insane, to be honest.
By the end, I was just very, very …
I sort of staggered out of there.
But at the same time, she adds, Susanne and I really joined psychically.
The whole thing orbits around this woman and her relationships with these people.
I heard her loud and clear.
