Los Angeles Aug 23 (IANS) Actress Nicole Kidman has ditched her usual glamorous Hollywood look. She will be seen as the "real middle-aged woman" for her role in "Destroyer".
The Oscar-winning actress 51 appeared gaunt and weary in the first photograph from her upcoming film reports people.com.
The movie directed by Karyn Kusama stars Kidman as a Los Angeles Police Department police officer named Erin Bell. The story tells how Bell went undercover as a young woman with a criminal gang and still faces the traumatic events 20 years later.
In an interview with Vanity Fair Kusama said she had a clear vision of how she wanted Kidman to look for the role.
"We always knew that what we wanted her to look like was a real middle-aged woman with a past that she wears on her face. With sun damage and sleep deprivation and stress and rage just in her whole physical body " Kusama told the magazine.
Of Kidman s transformation Kusama said the actress "hates being in the make-up chair".

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