Virginia Woolf in The Hours - and now it has emerged that her own depression helped her play the part authentically. In an interview the actress said she felt "removed, depressed, not in my own body" when filming the 2002 drama in which she plays the feminist novelist.
She did not use a stunt double for the scene, which depicts the writer's deliberate death by drowning in the River Ouse in 1941.
The Hours, released at Christmas 2002, was directed by British director Stephen Daldry and based on a novel by Michael Cunningham.
Ms Kidman won an Oscar for her portrayal of Mrs Woolf. Speaking to Jon Wilson on BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life, Ms Kidman said: "I don't know if I ever thought of the danger, I think I was so in her.
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