Nicole Kidman was not afraid to call out Alexander Skarsgård after a bad onscreen kiss.
During the Wednesday, March 11, episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast,” Kidman, 58, recalled struggling to kiss Skarsgård, 49, after he ate a a falafel sandwich on the set of Big Little Lies, saying, “I’m like, ‘No, no, no, Alex.'”
Kidman recalled giving Skarsgård some advice. “’I’m meant to be into you and kissing you — put away the falafel now because the bad breath does not turn me on,'” she told him.
The actress mentioned on Wednesday’s podcast appearance that good dental hygiene is “very important” to her, adding, “I’m sure [Alexander] did not eat a falafel ever again. I said, ‘No more falafel. Not before you kiss, not before you make love.’”
Elsewhere in the podcast, Kidman noted that bad breath is a deal-breaker for her.
“I don’t think so, honey, if you have bad breath,” she said. “I cannot stand bad breath. This is a deal-breaker for me. You could be the most gorgeous, gorgeous guy, and you came at me with bad breath, I’m like, ‘No.'”
Kidman continued: “If I say, ‘Breathe on me,’ and I have to recoil, yikes, I’m out. You could not offer me enough money.”
Kidman’s candid comments come after she recently broke her silence about her divorce from Keith Urban. Us Weekly confirmed in September 2025 that Kidman and Urban, 58, had split after 19 years of marriage.
The former couple originally met in 2005 following her divorce from Tom Cruise. After one year of dating, Kidman and Urban got married and expanded their family in 2008 with the arrival of daughter Sunday Rose. Two years later, Kidman and Urban welcomed daughter Faith via surrogate. (Kidman is also the mother of daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with Cruise, 63.)
“I have the most extraordinary partner in life. I will always say that about him,” Kidman said in a 2019 interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I’m one of the very fortunate women in the world to have had a wonderful father, and I have a wonderful husband, and I’m just very — I love to be able to say that because to talk about the good men that have influenced me and affected me.”
Kidman was also honest about the work that went into her marriage.
“We’re always working through stuff, but it’s very much love-based, so there’s an enormous amount of give and take,” she explained in the September 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “I want him to have the best life he can have, and he responds the same way. We really love parenting together.”
While reflecting on the changes in her life, Kidman spoke to Variety on Wednesday about her marriage coming to an end, saying, “I’m always going to be moving toward what’s good. What I’m grateful for is my family and keeping them as is and moving forward.”
She continued: “That’s that. Everything else I don’t discuss out of respect. I’m staying in a place of, ‘We are a family,’ and that’s what we’ll continue to be. My beautiful girls, my darlings, who are suddenly women.”
