Nicole Kidman, with Ariana Grande, reflects on how fame has changed in the age of social media and what she’s learning from her own children as she navigates it.
In a candid conversation with Ariana Grande for Interview MagazineThe 58-year-old actress said she’s trying to embrace a certain kind of strength she sees in her teenage daughters.
Tall, now 32 and fresh off her role as Glinda in Villain: for goodshared how the move to global fame changed him.
She described it as a “big adjustment” that came after her life changed “very drastically”.
Kidman understood this immediately, explaining that when fame comes early, “you’re put in this fishbowl and everything gets dissected.”
She said it can quickly lead to overthinking, fear and hurt until you start to say to yourself, “Now I don’t want to go out. I don’t want to venture out into this world.”
Kidman said the tug-of-war between gratitude and pressure is universal, but she thinks young people today deal with it differently.
As the mother of four children, Bella, 32, and Connor, 30, with Tom Cruise, and Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14, with Keith Urban, she has seen her youngest daughters handle online scrutiny in a way she never could have done at their age.
“I think they have an armor that we haven’t had,” she said. Growing up without social media, she never developed the resilience that her daughters seem to have naturally.
According to Kidman, “the very, very young have already left: “We know exactly how to handle this.” They don’t take many things personally. They ignore it.
Grande admitted that she sometimes wishes she had the same ease, saying she wants “a little dose of that” confidence. Kidman immediately agreed: “We need this lesson. »
Grande added that trying to constantly maintain this mindset might seem like too much, explaining that sometimes she realizes, “It’s my ego that’s doing this.”
She questioned whether the emotional “dance” that captures the audience’s attention should really be part of being an artist.
Kidman encouraged her toward what Grande called “the spiritually enlightened path,” but the singer admitted she still likes the idea of speaking freely like younger generations do.
“I actually prefer to go the cool kid route and just say what’s on my mind sometimes,” Grande said, while adding with a laugh that she usually ends up doing “a meditation and moving on.”
Together, the two stars offered an honest, grounded look at how fame is different today and why the next generation might handle it better than expected.
