Nicole Kidman is one of Hollywood’s most famous Aussie expats.
And despite the actress and her rocker husband Keith Urban basing themselves and daughters Sunday Rose, 15, and Faith Margaret, 13, in Tennessee, her love for Australia has always been strong with the family often returning for a visit.
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In a resurfaced interview from 2001, Kidman appeared on The Ray Martin Show alongside Jimmy Barnes and Jack Thompson and explained what always draws her back to Australia.
You can watch the resurfaced interview in the video above.
“It’s where I grew up, it’s my childhood,” Kidman began.
“It’s the trees, it’s the humour… I mean there’s so much about Australia that’s so unique.
“It’s also this distance from the rest of the world which, when you’re a teenager you go, ‘I want to see Europe, I want to see America, I want to get out there, I want to see it’.
“Well now I’m saying, ‘I’ve seen it, I want to go home’. There’s just everything here that you need.”
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In the interview, journalist Ray Martin touched on Kidman’s desire to raise children in Australia but when daughters Sunday and Faith were young the family relocated to Tennessee.
Kidman told PEOPLE that her children had adopted a bit of a Southern accent as well as their parents’ Aussie lingo.
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”My daughters are Nashvillians! They have a southern drawl,” Kidman told PEOPLE in 2016.
“They have some Aussie. They have an unusual mix. They’re hybrids.”
Despite being based in the United States’ country music capital Nashville, Kidman and husband Keith Urban now claim half a dozen apartments in harbourside Milsons Point in New South Wales.