The Oscar-winning actor <\/a>recently opened up about her powerful olfactory sense<\/a> in an interview with comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers on their podcast Las Culturistas, revealing that working with actors who have \u201cbad breath\u201d has been a consistent problem for her.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very very smell sensitive,\u201d Kidman, 58, said in the episode released Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019m either drawn to or drawn away based on a smell.\u201d<\/p>\n She explained that another actor\u2019s bad breath was her biggest dealbreaker when filming intimate scenes. \u201cYou could be the most gorgeous, gorgeous guy, and you come at me with bad breath and I\u2019m like no, no, no. If I say breathe on me and I have to recoil? I\u2019m out. I\u2019m out. You could not offer me enough money,\u201d she said,<\/p>\n Kidman remembered calling out Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s lunch decisions when they filmed intimate scenes as married couple Celeste and Perry in the acclaimed psychological drama Big Little Lies.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Nicole Kidman recently opened up about her powerful sense of smell on the ‘Las Culturistas’ podcast (Getty)<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd ate a falafel sandwich before we did the scenes in Big Little Lies,\u201d the star recalled. She added that she reprimanded the True Blood actor \u2014 who played her abusive husband in the acclaimed miniseries<\/a> \u2014 saying, \u201cI’m meant to be kissing you and into you. Put away the falafel now. Because the bad breath does not turn me on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs I said, it is very important to smell good but more importantly, the mouth \u2014\u00a0the taste of the mouth and the smell of the mouth \u2014\u00a0is very important to me,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Nicole Kidman said that she once reprimanded Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd, who played her husband on \u2018Big Little Lies,\u2019 for eating a falafel sandwich before they had to film sex scenes (HBO)<\/p>\n When Rogers joked <\/a>that Kidman was issuing a takedown of Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s surging reputation as a heartthrob \u2014 which comes in part due to his recent performance as a dominant biker in Pillion <\/a>\u2014 Kidman laughed and added, \u201cI\u2019m sure he did not eat a falafel ever again. Nope, not before you kiss. Not before you make love. Put the falafel away.\u201d<\/p>\n The Babygirl star, who recently went through a divorce after 19 years of marriage to country star Keith Urban<\/a>, went on to reveal that the best-smelling person she has ever met is none other than Rihanna<\/a>. When Rogers and Yang chimed in to say they had heard similar rumors about Rihanna\u2019s scent, Kidman replied, \u201cJust know it\u2019s all true,\u201d adding that the global superstar smells \u201cintoxicating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-518557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nicole](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2264659413.jpg\")
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