I do know what you realize: She’s 700 toes tall and made from pure Carrara marble. She has the silhouette of a Giacometti sculpture and has crushed films, tv, and all of the Hollywood issues as effortlessly, it will appear, as my children pop bubble wrap. Whereas her friends blew in white-hot, cooled to red-hot, then fizzled, flatlined, and peeled off into God is aware of the place, Nicole Kidman simply saved accelerating ahead. I can’t consider a time she hasn’t been related. Huge display, small display, all of the medium-size screens. She has been in every single place in our lives, but we by no means tire of her.
And simply once I assume Nicole Kidman, film star amongst film stars, couldn’t be extra intimidating, I get the e-mail. “Danielle ought to meet NK…for a twin hyperbaric chamber session….” I reread it a number of instances, hoping it’ll develop into English. ChatGPT tells me to organize for an enclosed, sealed chamber that pumps out pure oxygen whereas growing barometric stress till air stress is elevated two to a few instances. The targets (should you imagine in that type of factor) vary from growing oxygen ranges within the physique to combating infections. That is next-level intimidation. Hyperbaric intimidation.
A couple of days later I’m in a day spa not removed from Kidman’s dwelling in Nashville. As quickly as she arrives, Kidman walks up, shakes my hand, and begins laughing. “Have you ever executed this earlier than? Have you learnt something about it? That is so loopy, isn’t it?” she says. No, no, sure. Kidman shakes her head on the chamber with a “Hell is that this?” look. This clearly wasn’t essentially the most meticulously thought-through exercise, however certain, we’re right here, why not?
Think about the fuselage of a pocket-size Gulfstream. Not fairly sufficient room to face except you’re a backyard gnome—definitely not should you’re 5 toes ten+.
“They advised me to decorate like I might on an airplane,” says Kidman, sporting black leggings, a striped long-sleeve shirt, and the vibe of somebody who likes to be comfy when she travels. She kicks off her Balenciaga sneakers, crouches, and walks inside. An origami crane folding onto itself. “Come on, Danielle! We’re doing this!”
A younger lady with a bouncy ponytail and a Southern drawl offers us a tour, which is type of like touring a fridge. Moments later, Ponytail leaves and seals us in (should you weren’t claustrophobic earlier than, you possibly can be heading in that path). Kidman and I sit down, oxygen masks strapped to our faces like two confused astronauts.
