Nicole Kidman on Role as Military Wife: 'Really Powerful'
The actress discusses her new film, "The Railway Man," where she plays a woman who marries a former POW.

Nicole Kidman back on the big screen with two very different roles she’s taking on Princess Grace, also a gritty army wife in a new movie as well. ABC’s Nick Wart sat down and talked to her about it.
We all know that Nicole Kidman is elegant, talented, beautiful, but she’s also very funny, and also rather tall.
People are always amazed at how tall I am.
5’11” by the way. In this, her latest role in The Railway Man, Kidman plays a rather dowdy and dedicated woman named Patty Lomax.
I’ve never kissed a man with a mustache before, and I don’t think I’m gonna kiss a man with a mustache again.
Who meets and marries Eric, a former POW traumatized by his torture at the hands of the Japanese in the Second World War. It’s a true story.
The idea of staying with someone and not abandoning them and somehow healing them with love was really powerful to me.
Have you ever been through something similar yourself that you could draw on?
Of course I relate to the power of love and the healing qualities of love, that’s why I wanted to play it.
I’m so happy.
Ok, for all you inspiring journalists, here’s a painful lesson.
You live in Sydney, right?
No, I live in Nashville.
I thought you lived in Sydney.
You didn’t read the research.
I can be a mother and wife and hold on 2 jobs without the people getting too upset, can’t I?
But I do know that she’s princess Grace in the upcoming Grace of Monaco.
I just wanted to do it justice, but it’s not a biopic, it’s not sort of some joke into the deep psyche of Grace, it’s very much a fairytale still.
My husband is in cold bay.
Which The Railway Man most certainly is not.
I love him and I want him back.
It talks about what soldiers are going through, right now coming back, and having endured things, having seen things, and how do you move forward with your life. And I think that’s incredibly relevant to now.
For Good Morning America, Nick Wart, ABC News, Los Angeles.