Nicole Kidman on her 'Destroyer' look: 'It's not that extreme'

Director Karyn Kusama's excellent new crime drama Destroyer tells the story of Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), an LAPD officer and mother who experienced trauma while working undercover within a dangerous California gang operating in a desolate desert community. The film covers two different eras in Bell's life: time spent with the gang via flashback and her bleak present days. It's not hard to tell what time period you're viewing as the years haven't been at all kind to Bell, leaving her looking hollow and battered by the sun, in desperate need of sleep and hydration. Of course, the radiant Nicole Kidman is quite different looking from the character she inhabits in the film. To achieve a believable transformation from Hollywood star to hardboiled cop, Kusama and Kidman collaborated with Oscar-winning makeup designer Bill Corso (Foxcatcher, Deadpool).