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    Nicole Kidman almost gave up acting. She stars in three movies this month

    by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Dec 19, 2018 6 minutes

    This time last year, Nicole Kidman was working with Oscar-winning makeup artist Bill Corso, perfecting the sun-damaged, sleep-deprived complexion of the LAPD detective she'd play in "Destroyer," developing a leathery look far and away removed from the 51-year-old actress' own fair skin.

    Seeing their mom in full makeup for the first time, Kidman's daughters - Sunday, 10, and Fifi, 7 - reacted in the blunt, truth-telling way that kids that age do.

    "They called me 'granny,'" Kidman remembers, laughing. "They're like, 'You're our granny now.'"

    Which got Kidman thinking. The girls' school in Nashville - where Kidman, musician husband Keith Urban and their daughters live - was putting on a grandparents' chocolate day. Both Kidman's and Urban's mothers live in Australia. So Kidman told her girls that she'd gladly don a wig and dress up and play their grandmother for the day.

    Her idea was met with mortification.

    "I thought it'd be kind of quirky and funny and make for

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