Nicole Kidman To Star In New Film From Maverick Horror Filmmaker Osgood Perkins
“We come to this place to laugh, to cry, to care,” says Nicole Kidman in the popular AMC Theaters introduction.
While seeing a great film can inform us about ourselves and the world around us, it can also, sometimes, simply be an escape from the everyday.
Similarly, making a movie can be an escape as well… even if it may be on a frightening subject.
Little is known of the plot for the upcoming film The Young People, which is directed by rising horror filmmaker Osgood Perkins, but Variety reports that Kidman has been cast in the film.
This announcement comes just a month and a half after it was revealed that Kidman had filed for divorce from her spouse of 19 years, country star Keith Urban.
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About The Upcoming Film ‘The Young People’
Last year, horror filmmaker Osgood Perkins made a splash with his film Longlegs (2024), a thriller which featured an almost unrecognizable Nicolas Cage.
The film was produced by NEON, and it went on to be the highest-grossing independent film of 2024, bringing in $75 million in the United States alone.
Now, NEON is producing another film from Perkins, titled The Young People.
Nicole Kidman, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2004 for her turn as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2003), has been cast in the film, according to Variety, alongside an eclectic cast.
The film’s lead actresses are Lola Tung, of the Amazon series The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022-2025); and Nico Parker, who was memorably cast in HBO’s The Last of Us (2023). Other cast members include Johnny Knoxville and Heather Graham.
If you feel like you recognized filmmaker Osgood Perkins’ name, it’s likely because you’re familiar with his father: the late Hollywood actor Anthony Perkins, who memorably starred as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated horror film, Psycho (1960).
The Young People does not yet have a release date set, but is expected in 2026.
More About Nicole Kidman’s Divorce From Keith Urban
Fellow Australians Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban met in 2005 at an event in Los Angeles celebrating Australia, dubbed “G’Day LA.”
On their 10th wedding anniversary, Keith Urban shared a photo of them from that event, noting it was taken “minutes after being introduced to each other.”
See the photo, here:
A year later, Kidman and Urban were married, tying the knot on June 25, 2006.
Together, they have two children, named Sunday and Faith.
Over the course of their relationship, Urban noted that it was Kidman who helped him overcome addiction. Speaking with The Times in 2022, Urban said of becoming sober after meeting Kidman, “I’ve nothing against drugs or alcohol. Everyone does what they want to do to have a great time. I just realized I’m allergic to it.”
Continuing, he said:
“I had to find a different way to be in the world,” he said at the time. “I’m glad it didn’t change anything about my music. I wrote plenty of hit songs while drunk. I wrote plenty sober. I feel lucky it hasn’t defined my creativity.”
On September 30, Kidman filed for divorce from Urban, citing “marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences,” according to court documents.
According to Billboard, “[Kidman] and [Urban] have decided to ‘amicably’ divvy up their properties, vehicles and other belongings. Notably, both parties will walk away with full retention over their respective [intellectual property], publishing and recording rights.”