United Kingdom, May 18 -- Nicole Kidman is determined to uplift women in Hollywood.

The Oscar-winning actress vowed in 2017 to work with a female director every 18 months, and Nicole remains passionate about supporting female filmmakers.

Speaking at the Kering Woman in Motion event at the Cannes Film Festival, Nicole - who founded the production company Blossom Films in 2010 - explained: "I was at a point where we had a discussion where there was such a disparity in terms of the choice. You'd go, 'Could a woman direct this?' And there wasn't a number of names where you could even consider people. They'd say it was someone's first time and you didn't want to risk it.

"I had to start to say this is how I am doing it. This is what I am do...