Nicole Kidman News: 'Lion' Actress Addresses Comments About Supporting Donald Trump Presidency [VIDEO]
Nicole Kidman has responded after comments she made during a recent interview about a Donald Trump presidency landed her in hot water because of her perceived support of the President-Elect's incoming administration.
In an interview with the BBC, Kidman commented on the incoming President-Elect's administration, saying that she believed Americans needed to support him, but the comments were later misconstrued as her announcing that she supported him as President, leading to backlash from those who disgree with his Presidency.
"I'm always reticent to start commenting politically; I've never done it in terms of America or Australia. I'm issue-based," she said. "So I just say, he's now elected, and we as a country need to support whoever is the president because that's what the country's based on."
However, after those comments were construed as saying everyone should believe in the same policies as Trump, Kidman spoke to Access Hollywood to clarify her comments, saying she didn't mean things that way, and instead meant that she supported democracy and what that entailed.
"I was trying to stress that I believe in democracy and the American Constitution, and it was that simple," she said. "I'm out of it now. That's what I said, and it's that simple."
Kidman isn't the only celebrity to recently come under fire for comments made about a Trump Presidency. Meryl Streep faced both criticism and praise after her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes for the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, where she criticized Trump for making fun of a disabled reporter and discussed how she felt that some of the ways he conducted himself only led to other disconcerting behaviors in the country.
"And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invited disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose," she said.
