Nicole Kidman Hugs HerMoulin RougeCostar Ewan McGregor's Daughter Esther atBabygirlScreening

Mar. 15, 2025

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Nicole KidmanandEsther McGregorare celebrating their new movie.

Ewan, 53, briefly mentioned earlier this year that Esther would be collaborating with Kidman on a new film, while talking on aStar Wars-related panel back in February at MegaCon in Orlando, Florida.

“My daughter Esther is filming with — she’s playing Nicole Kidman’s daughter in a movie right now. Full circle!” he said, quipping in addition, “Maybe no one’s meant to know that … I should’ve checked before I just announced that to the world. Proud-dad moment, sorry.”

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“A lot of my personal life and things that I’ve kind of gone through with my family, and the dynamic of that, weirdly kind of replicated itself on the screen, just in the opposite way as I was dealing with my mother instead of my father,” she said.

Ewan and Esther’s mother Eve Mavrakis split in 2017 after he was photographed kissing his now-wife and formerFargocostar,Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Ewan and Eve’s divorce was finalized in August 2020.

“For me, that was the age when you shift and realize your parents are humans and f— up and make mistakes and make decisions that might not be in the interest of others,” Esther toldVariety. “So it was really interesting to revisit that with a different perspective.”

“Now I’m 22 and all that s— with my family went down when I was 16, so with my newfound closure and understanding of my own trajectory, I was able to find a new voice with this character, and I thought that was really special,” she added.

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“At some point I was like, I don’t want to be touched. I don’t want to do this anymore, but at the same time I was compelled to do it. [Director Halina Reijn] would hold me and I would hold her, because it was just very confronting to me,” she told the outlet.

“Ifelt very exposed as an actor, as a woman, as a human being,” added theAcademy Awardwinner. “I had to go in and go out like, I need to put my protection back on. ‘What have I just done? Where did I go? What did I do?’ ”

source: people.com