The actress said the metal dog collar she had to wear in 2003’s “Dogville” was “so heavy and hard to take off.”

Nicole Kidmanthe experience of creating 2003 Dogville got a little too real at one point.

The Oscar-winning actress returned to some of her iconic roles in a new video for the British GQ as she adorns the cover of Magazine’s Men of the Year 2024 special issue.

While reflecting on her portrayal of Grace Margaret Mulligan in the writer-director film Lars von TrierIt is DogvilleKidman recalled how the iron collar she had to wear caused alarm.

“Lars was Lars, and I was terrified of him and attracted to him,” Kidman, 57, said of the provocative director with a smile, adding of the experience: “It was weird.”

She continued, “There’s the time where they put this dog collar on me that was like a metal collar. And then we were filming and, I mean, it was so heavy and hard to take off.”

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“I remember this was going on,” Kidman said in the video, as she herself simulated struggling to breathe, putting her hand on her neck. “And Lars thought I was acting. And actually, I’m like…”

“So when he cut,” she said, “I was like, ‘Get it off me! Get it off me!’ I’ll never forget that.”

Kidman said she initially signed up for the experimental, minimalist project because she “desperately wanted to work with” von Trier, famous for films like Antichrist And Melancholy.

“We spoke on the phone. I read Dogville; everyone was like, “What the hell?” “And he sent me pictures of what it was going to look like, and it was just the tape on the floor. I was like, “I love this. Perfect.’ Everyone was like…,” she recalls of her skepticism about the film’s conception.

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DogvilleThe cast of is also included Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Chloë Sévigny And Stellan Skarsgard.

Kidman said in English GQ video that it was “amazing” that all the cast “lived in the guest house, with Lars” during production. She also called her experience making the film “rather dangerous and strange at the same time.”

In a recent interview with Vanity FairKidman shared which iconic directors she still hopes to work with one day.

“I always said I wanted to work with (Martin) Scorseseif he makes a movie with women,” she said. “I would love to work with Kathryn Bigelow. I would love to work with Spike Jonze. I would love to work with PTA (Paul Thomas Anderson). I always wanted to work with Michael Haneke. And there are a whole bunch of promising new directors – there are so many, and I’m always open to discovering new people. »

Dogville is currently streaming on Mubi. Kidman’s next film Little girl is in theaters December 25.