Nicole Kidman Is 'Really Going Gaga' Over Hairless Cats: 'One Might Be in My Future' (Exclusive)

The actress says hairless cats are "very nice and, I think, very pretty, but that might just be me"

Nicole Kidman went down an internet rabbit hole admiring hairless cats.

In the new thriller Holland, the Oscar winner plays a Michigan schoolteacher and homemaker who becomes obsessed investigating her suspicious husband, played by Matthew Macfadyen.

What non-work topics does Kidman, 57, get obsessed with in real life? "Hairless cats," she tells PEOPLE in an interview alongside Macfadyen and costar Gael García Bernal on March 9. "Yes. I did it last night. I love hairless cats. I just love them. I've decided — I mean, we have three cats already — but I'd really like a hairless cat."

Succession alum Macfadyen, 50, jokes, "They're also called scrotum cats, I've heard. They're quite startling."

Kidman, playfully smacking her scene partner, says, "Hairless cats take offense to that!" The Lioness star continues of her current favorite felines, "They're very, very yummy. Very nice and, I think, very pretty, but that might just be me."

"I was really going gaga over all the hairless cats. So one might be in my future," she says with a smile.

MATTHEW MACFADYEN and NICOLE KIDMAN star in HOLLAND
Matthew Macfadyen and Nicole Kidman in "Holland".

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Macfadyen says his recent obsession is late spy novelist John le Carré. "There's a million interviews [with him online] and I was watching, and this is a total rabbit hole in itself. ... It was like an hour just lost on my phone." Bernal, 46, says he gets swept away finding "stories where the wrong people are solving a mystery," not unlike in Holland.

"See, I'm the superficial one of the bunch!" jokes Kidman, who later in the conversation expressed her love for gardening and said she'd name her hypothetical flower shop "Hairless Cats."

Holland director Mimi Cave, known for 2022's Fresh, says Kidman, Macfadyen and Bernal together made for "electric" chemistry. "We keep a good energy on set," she adds, even when the scenes got dark.

Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal at the "Holland" Premiere during the SXSW Conference & Festivals

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"I think the darker the subject matter is, sometimes the more fun on set it is," says Macfadyen. "Naturally, actors sort of play against how grim, or otherwise, the material is. Sometimes when you're doing comedy, it's quite serious. Everyone's like, 'Is this funny?' "

"Yeah, that's true," agrees Kidman. "But this is such an interesting tone, because it's got that really dark humor, but it's very... how it presents, it's like a package with a big bow and then you unwrap it and you're like, 'Oh!' "

Holland is now streaming on Prime Video.

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