In the the music video for his new song ‘She’s the Best,’ ‘Nicole Kidman has reunited with Troye Sivan.
Eight years since the two first met on the set of the 2018 movie Boy Erased, the Oscar-winning actress has again teamed up with her fellow Aussie singer/songwriter.
The ‘She’s the Best’ video follows Kidman as she struts along a city sidewalk, dressed in black, and oversized sunglasses, smoking a cigarette before enters a drag club and sips a drink as she watches Troye perform his song.
Later in the video, Troye leaves the stage and they slow dance together, before brief clips show them downing shots, dancing with abandon, and Kidman interacting with the drag stars backstage, including Sasha Colby.
In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Sivan insisted that Kidman was his first choice because she’s “always just been such a picture of the divine feminine to me”. “I was like, ‘Who is the best? Nicole Kidman. She’s the best.’ The first thing that came to my mind was, ‘I wonder if she’d be in the video?’ he said. “She’s one of the greatest actresses of all time. To have her in our music video feels surreal.”
Recalling that he got her phone number during the Boy Erased shoot and sent her the song and references for the video, she called him back while he was in the middle of a Zoom meeting.
“I let it go to voicemail, and then I see the transcription starts coming, it’s like, ‘Hi darling Troye, it’s Nic.’ I slammed my laptop shut and just ended the meeting,” said the 31-year old musician.
‘She’s the Best,’ is the first single from his forthcoming LP of the same name, that also features a surprise voice cameo from Charli XCX at the end of the song.
“We’ve found ways to work these women into the songs. I don’t want to speak for him, but I think for both George and I, Charli is obviously a very, very, very special person to both of us, and so to have her on that song in some small way is very meaningful to us,” shared Troye, who co-wrote the track with Jack Antonoff and Charli’s husband George Daniel.
The She’s the Best full length will drop on October 9.
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Author: Saul Goode
Photo: Georges Biard