Nicole Kidman took the West End stage for the first time in 17 years at London, where she played the pioneering DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin.
As she made her long awaited return, according to the Telegraph, when she was asked if she would castigate audience members for bad mobile phone etiquette while she's on stage in "Photograph 51".
She said, "I think a lot of it is just feeling incredibly grateful that people come."
"You go out there and for a moment you're like, 'Oh my gosh, everyone's against us.' Then you realise, no, they are all here because they want to be here because they want to see a play, and that's really beautiful."
"Everyone has driven here, caught the Tube, whatever it is, to get to the play; paid their money - and, I mean, it's a lot of money to come and see a play, and that's hard - so we just want to be able to give everyone a good show. It's simple."
Kidman was told by the production team that many theatregoers had made noisy late entrance at the Noel Coward Theatre but she "didn't even hear it."
She also opened up about her intense nerves as she played the role on stage.
"My heart was pounding," Kidman said as per the Guardian. "That rush of adrenaline ... it is an extreme feeling."
Although she is a veteran actress, Kidman admitted that she got scared during the first preview on Saturday night. She said, "I think nerves get more as you get older. I would love to say they get less but they don't. Getting out on to the stage is the big thing, but once I was out there it was unbelievable."
Kidman revealed she thought if she is not part of the theatre now, "I would never do it." She explained, "I had to push myself and go: 'OK, I'm going to do it.' My mother was very much a part. I was going: 'I'm scared' and she was: 'So what!' She pushes me in to different places. It would have been easy to stay home in Nashville and read reviews of somebody else doing this play. I wanted to push myself and I wanted to support the theatre."
