Nicole Kidman Sits Between Husband Keith Urban & TV Husband Alexander Skarsgård at Fashion Show
Worlds collided for Nicole Kidman on Tuesday, when she found herself smack in the middle of her personal life and her work life — literally!
The Oscar-winning actress, 52, attended Giorgio Armani Privé’s fall/winter showcase during Paris Fashion Week and sat in the front row between two important men in her world: Keith Urban, her husband of 13 years, and actor Alexander Skarsgård, who plays her husband on the HBO drama Big Little Lies.
Both men looked dapper. Urban, 51, wore a black suit and tie which he paired with a crisp white shirt and a shiny black boots. Skarsgård, 42, went in head-to-toe black, dressing down his black suit with a coordinating dark T-shirt.
Dressed in a sequined sleeveless black gown with matching black kitten heels and a white tuxedo blazer draped over her shoulders, Kidman looked happy as could be.
Photographers caught her not only holding Urban’s hand but also affectionately placing her hand on Skarsgård’s knee.
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On Big Little Lies, Kidman and Skarsgård’s characters Celeste and Perry White had a far less loving relationship. Though their marriage looked loving on the surface, it was fraught with physical and sexual abuse behind the scenes — material that’s given Kidman some of the most intense acting scenes of her career.
Filming those in the HBO series’ first season took a toll on Kidman.
“Because we were shooting for so long, I think the duration of [the production] slowly started to seep in,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2017. “Normally, I can step back into my family life in a very easy way. Not always, but you know, usually. I’ve been working a long time now. But it was hard.”
To help Kidman get through that, she turned to Urban.
“Luckily, I have a partner who is artistic so he understands what it takes to support that,” she said. “I came home to loving arms, someone who would hold me, and I was really upset at times. Really damaged, really upset, and physically and emotionally drained and in pain — my neck, particularly.”
Urban was also there next to Kidman when she gave Skarsgård a friendly kiss on the lips at the 2017 Emmy Awards after the actor won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie.
The moment went viral, but Kidman laughed it off — assuring Graham Norton in October of that year, “I also kissed my husband, too.”
“I did kiss [Skarsgard], but you gotta understand, I did everything with Alex,” explained Kidman, who also won an Emmy that night for her work in Big Little Lies. “I’ve got an amazing, supportive husband who I love more than anything in the world, and I gave Alex a congratulatory kiss, and he’s like a mannequin.”
“I mean, not a mannequin,” Kidman said, laughing at herself before declaring, “I’m done.”
Season 2 of Big Little Lies airs Sundays (9 p.m. ET) on HBO.
