Nicole Kidman Opens Up About Family, New Film, 'Stoker'

Nicole Kidman describes her new film, "Stoker," as a stylized fairy-tale horror thriller. What was also unusual about this movie, Kidman's 44 th, was that the director, Park Chan-Wook, speaks no English.

Asked about how the subtlety and nuance of the actor-director relationship would come through in the absence of a shared language, Kidman described the process.

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"It comes through telepathically, in a way, which sounds really weird, but I suppose acting is a bit weird," she said, laughing. "Filmmaking's a bit weird. But it does, yeah. It does because you have really deep conversations about the character and about the story. And then you start to get in their heads. And that's your job as an actor, is to kind of penetrate the mind of the director and, hopefully, start to read his thoughts."

Kidman, who is married to country music star and "American Idol" judge Keith Urban, sat down with