Kidman may have more kids

2008-11-18 21:12

Sydney - Hollywood star Nicole Kidman said on Tuesday she was unsure of her next move as an actor and she may simply choose to have more children.

The 41-year-old Academy Award winner, in Sydney for the world premiere of her latest movie, the Outback romance Australia, said further movies could be put on hold as she contemplates extending her family.

Kidman gave birth to Sunday Rose, her daughter with country singer Keith Urban, in July, and has two adopted children, a boy and a girl who are now teenagers, from her marriage to Hollywood actor Tom Cruise.

"In terms of my future as an actor and stuff, I don't know," Kidman told a packed press conference.

"I'm in a place in my life where I've... had some great opportunities. And I may just choose to have some more children.

At peace

"I have no idea what's in my future, but I am very at peace with where I am going to be and there's many things I want to do besides act."

Kidman said she had no idea whether the character of Sunday Rose, who was conceived during filming of Australia, had been shaped by Australia.

"She's a little stranger who we are just discovering," Kidman said, adding that she was still reeling from leaving the infant at home in the United States while she completed a 24-hour dash Down Under to promote the movie.

Kidman, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in The Hours, defended her choice of film roles, which have ranged from a woman who becomes convinced a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband in Birth to a courtesan in Moulin Rouge!.

"I have kind of quirky taste and so I didn't go out and choose a big blockbuster after I won the Oscar - I went and chose, I think it was Birth.

"And then I did Fur," she said, referring to the movie based on the life of photographer Diane Arbus.

"But that's my body of work; I am not going to apologise for it. I have kind of unusual taste and sometimes it's mainstream and a lot of times it's not."

She praised the director of Australia, Baz Luhrmann, as her creative soul mate, saying he had managed to "draw things out of me which maybe relate to people in a much broader way than, say, other directors".

- AFP