As someone who started her acting career with the miniseries format, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman says she is amazed to see her career do a full-circle thanks to the popularity of her recent limited shows such as "Big Little Lies", "The Undoing" and now "Nine Perfect Strangers". The Oscar winner says it has been exciting to work on the small screen which has allowed her more screen time to explore her characters. "I'm amazed because, strangely enough, I started off in Australia, doing a couple of films but then I did a thing, which was very well known at the time as miniseries. One of them was called 'Vietnam' and the other one was called 'The Bangkok Hilton'. "So to have come full circle... And now we are doing an enormous amount of work in limited series. This is fascinating to me. It is a fascinating medium to work as an actor because you get so much more screen time to explore a character," Kidman said in response to a question from PTI during a roundtable with international journalists. One of the most well-known faces in Hollywood movies, Kidman has been a part of some of the most popular as well as critically-acclaimed films such as "The Hours", "Eyes Wide Shut", "Moulin Rouge!", "Dogville", "Cold Mountain", "Bewitched", "Lion", "Beguiled", "Aquaman" and "Bombshell".

But in recent years, the 54-year-old Australian actor has wowed her fans with her turns as Celeste Wright, a retired lawyer and mother whose seemingly picture-perfect life slowly unravels in "Big Little Lies". She followed it up with an equally impressive turn in "The Undoing" as Grace Fraser, a highly successful psychologist caught in her husband's web of lies. Kidman said the success of the format has been a "door opener" for her. "Right now as we know, there just isn't the voracious appetite for film as there is for television. So to have that opportunity to work on even though it's the smaller screen but still bring that cinematic language, and hopefully storytelling to the smaller screen, that's exciting. And it's been a door opener for me, actually," she said. Kidman executive produced "Big Little Lies" and "The Undoing", both HBO shows, where she collaborated with creator David E Kelley. Her upcoming show "Nine Perfect Strangers" reunites Kidman, Kelley and "Big Little Lies" novelist Liane Moriarty.