'It's a love letter to my children': Nicole Kidman talks new role as an adoptive mother in Lion as she poses for Town & Country

Nicole Kidman stars as the devoted mother of an adopted son in upcoming Lion.

It's a fitting role for the 49-year-old star, who adopted two children with her ex Tom Cruise, as she explains in a new interview with Town and Country magazine.

'I can see now, for Lion, that it was important to me because I’m a mother with adopted children,' she says.'This movie is a love letter to my children.' 

'This movie is a love letter to my children': Nicole Kidman talks about her new role in movie Lion as an adoptive mother in a new interview with Town and Country

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Nicole Kidman is set to appear on the December cover for Town & Country, an issue where she discusses her upcoming film Lion.

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While it might seem like an obvious choice for the Oscar-winning star, she explains that she doesn't always know why she chooses a particular movie role, sometimes only figuring it out once the project is complete. 

'I call myself the wild card, because I have no idea what it is. I'm so spontaneous—sometimes to my detriment and sometimes my benefit—but it's how I've always been.' 

The actress admits she can't even explain to her husband Keith Urban why she's picked one role over another. 

'My husband never knows what I'm going to choose. And then he'll ask me to explain why and I can't!' she admits.

'I call myself the wild card':  The 49-year-old Oscar-winner admits that she is not strategic when picking which roles she'll do and often can't explain why she's drawn to a particular movie

Describing herself a bit of a risk-taker, Kidman says: 'My whole thing is I'm going to try it. I think that's probably frustrating to people who wish for me to be more strategic. 

'But I've been the same way since I was 14. I don't conform,' she says. 'That's just my nature. ' 

Kidman shares adoptive children Isabella, 23, and Connor, 21 with Cruise and also has two daughters with Urban, Sunday Rose, eight, and Faith Margaret, five.

It makes the actress happy to see her daughters enjoying time in Australia, the country she grew up in. 

'They played with wallabies and kangaroos. Now it's one of their favorite places,

Cover star: The December issue is out on newsstands November 15

Kidman shares adoptive children Isabella, 23, and Connor, 21 with ex husband Tom Cruise. They are seen with Cruise in 2010 along with his daughter Suri with ex-wife Katie Holmes

'And they've been a lot of places. They're very well traveled. My daughter can go to school and say, "I've been to Paris. I've been to Morocco. I've been to Italy and China and India."'

Lion is based on the story of Saroo (played by Dev Patel), who as a young boy became accidentally separated from his birth family in India. 

Kidman plays Sue Brierley, the woman who adopts Saroo.

The young man tries to find his birth family using Google Earth to search for his home village.

The movie is based on Saroo Brierley’s personal story in book A Long Way Home and premiered earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Red carpet couple: Nicole attended the 50th annual CMA Awards in Nashville on Wednesday with husband Keith Urban

 

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