Nicole Kidman raises toast to late mom ‘smartest person in the room’

Nicole Kidman is remembering her late mom Janelle Ann Kidman in her speeches as the “smartest person in the room.”

The Babygirl actress, 57, lamented in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter that her mother couldn’t get to watch her latest release.

“I was sad she didn’t get to see Babygirl,” the actress said before adding a few more words in her mother’s honour.

“She just had an enormous amount of wisdom and humour, very irreverent. She would see through everything,” Kidman told the publication.

“And she’d always say to me that I was always looking at the world with rose-coloured glasses,” the Oscar winner continued.

“She loved my career,” the Perfect Couple star added on another note. “She’d go, ‘That was very good,’ or ‘The writing on this wasn’t good.’ When she said something was good, you just sort of almost fell at her feet.”

The Australian actress also recalled going to the opera with her mother during her childhood, explaining that Janelle “knew so much about art.”

“I came from that very academic home where it was like, ‘Well, where’s your degree?'” she said. “And I’m like, ‘I got my degree in acting.’ We would read novels and then we would discuss them, or we would discuss an art exhibition.”

Nicole announced in a statement read aloud by Babygirl director Halina Reijn at the Venice Film Festival on September 7 that she had left the festival early due to her mother’s death.