Cannes, May 20 -- Nicole Kidman recently shared a personal part of her creative process while speaking at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

The 57-year-old actress was in France on Sunday, May 18, for a conversation with Variety's Angelique Jackson before receiving the prestigious Women in Motion Award from Kering.

During the chat, Kidman said she often wakes up in the middle of the night to write.

"I do it at 3 a.m., writing sessions. I wake up and I'll write something, be it a dream or something circulating in my head and my life and my heart at that time," she shared, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"I think 2 and 3 a.m. is a very, very ripe time for things to happen because you're in that slightly removed state from reality, but...