Meryl Streep Nicole Kidman’s Surprising Skinny-Dipping Routine

Right before filming Big Minor Lies, Meryl Streep uncovered a astonishing reality about costar Nicole Kidman.

“Reese [Witherspoon] informed me the really 1st evening we were up in Monterey, right before we commenced capturing, she said, ‘You know what she does?’” Streep, 74, recalled at the American Movie Institute Life Achievement Award Gala on Saturday, April 27. “I claimed, ‘No, Nicole?’ She goes, ‘Yeah, you know what she does? She goes out at 5, right before dawn, and she goes skinny-dipping behind the lodge in the ocean.’ I looked at Nicole and I said, ‘Are you kidding me? The Pacific is like 48 levels in March.’ Nicole mentioned, ‘Yeah! I love it!’”

Streep, who presented Kidman, 56, with the honor at the Los Angeles occasion, gushed that her pal is “a wild mongrel expertise.”

“You’re like a mustang, a workhorse, and a winner racer all in 1, but one particular whose spirit, they’ll in no way crack. By no means. The vary of your get the job done is stunning. Your record of credits and roles and superior deeds in the environment would acquire a usual person a few lifetimes to obtain,” Streep reported. “Your daily life and your resume issues every thing we know about how numerous hours there are in the day and how a lot of locations a female can be at one particular time. It’s hard not to envy Nicole, but it is also unachievable not to be in awe of her.”

Streep praised Kidman’s acting ability set just after witnessing it throughout period 2 of Large Minor Lies, which aired in 2019. “When an actress bares all and leaps off into the unfamiliar, she dives deep into the darker components of what it is to be a human becoming,” Streep explained. “But I really don’t assume it is bravery. I assume it is love. I believe she just enjoys it. And I believe which is the greatest attribute an actor can have — that mix of urge for food and curiosity and recklessness. You have that, infant.”

Streep joined the star-studded crew of Kidman, Witherspoon, 48, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz and Laura Dern just after year 1 of the hit HBO series. Streep performed Mary Louise White, the mom-in-law of Kidman’s Celeste and grieving parent of Perry (Alexander Skarsgård), who was murdered in the initially time.

Soon after accepting the purpose, Streep admitted that she did not even read the script. “[My agent] mentioned, ‘There’s a aspect that they wrote with you in mind simply because they known as her Mary Louise.’ … I explained, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it,’” she discussed for the duration of a New York Metropolis panel dialogue in 2019. “He reported, ‘Don’t you want to examine it?’ I stated, ‘No.’ It was the best matter on Television set. It genuinely was, that very first season.”