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Venice Film Festival jury president Isabelle Huppert expressed support for Nicole Kidman after the actress was unable to accept her Best Actress prize for Babygirl in person, due to her mother’s death.
Kidman had traveled to Italy to receive the award but had to get back on a plane shortly after landing.
“I just wanted to express my compassion to Nicole Kidman, who can’t be here tonight, who had to go back unexpectedly, and I just want to tell her that we really miss her and we love her,” Huppert told the jury press conference.
Earlier at the awards ceremony, Babygirl director Halina Reijn had read out a message from Kidman as she accepted the award on her behalf, in which the actress said she was in shock and was dedicating the prize to her mother.
Kidman plays a high-powered CEO in the thriller, who puts her life’s work on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern.
“I thought she was quite extraordinary. It’s a very daring performance, but it’s not only what she does. It’s also about what the film is about,” said Huppert.
“I really like the perspective of the director, the way she really mingles the two aspects of a woman. You can be a woman of power and yet, you can also be a fragile woman… And I think what Nicole Kinman does is quite extraordinary. She shows a range of emotions, of intelligence in what she does. I was really struck.”
Huppert was joined in the jury by James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz and Zhang Ziyi.
