Nicole Kidman says US needs to ‘support’ Donald Trump as President
Nicole Kidman has encouraged the US to get behind Donald Trump and “support” him when he is sworn in as President.
Kidman – who is a dual citizen of both the United States and Australia – made the remark during an interview with the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire.
“I’m always reticent to start commenting politically I’ve never done it in terms of America and Australia,” she said. “I’m issue based.
“He’s now elected and we as a country need to support whoever is President because that is what the country is based on.
“However that happened he’s there and let’s go.”
The actress – who was promoting her new film Lion – also spoke about being an advocate for women.
“I’m very, very committed to women’s issues in terms of I do a lot of fundraising for U.N. Women and I do a lot of traveling for them,” she said.
“I also do an enormous amount of fundraising for breast and ovarian cancer, because that’s something that’s affected my family deeply. So they’re my issues that I’m very attached to.”
Piers Morgan praised Kidman for her “mature” comment, tweeting: “BOMBSHELL! Hollywood star shows mature, rational, unifying view towards Trump presidency. Kudos to Nicole Kidman.”
Her comments come as Mr Trump has been knocked back by a host of stars in his bid to secure musicians for his inauguration on January 20.
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