Nicole Kidman has told of the one regret in her otherwise glittering career: she wished that she had taken an early role which involved kissing a girl.
Aged 14, Kidman was cast as the lead in a short film by The Piano director, Jane Campion, called A Girl's Own Story but ended up not taking the part.
Speaking at Women in Film's Crystal + Lucy Awards in Los Angeles, where she was given the Crystal Award for excellence in film, Kidman admitted that she had turned down the role because she would have had to wear a shower cap and kiss a girl.
She then pulled a shower cap out of her bag and put it on, saying: "(I am) ready... to kiss any woman in the room."
Her friend Naomi Watts, who presented her with the award, also donned a shower cap, and the pair then kissed.
Kidman ticking "kiss a woman" off her list follows Cate Blanchett's comment on gay relationships earlier this year: "In 2015, the point should be: who cares?"
Confusion arose over an interview with Variety magazine in which Blanchett had said in impressively blasé fashion that she had had many relationships with women.
She later clarified that these relationships were not sexual.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, Blanchett said that the lesbian character she plays in Todd Haynes' acclaimed film Carol appealed because she led life as a "private affair".
She added: "I think what often happens these days, if you are homosexual, you have to talk about it constantly; it has to be the only thing you put before your work and any other aspect of your personality.
"We are living in deeply conservative times. If you think otherwise, you're very foolish."
