“At some point, I’m going to have to talk about it. The why of it all,” says Nicole Kidman in a new trailer for “The Undoing.” An adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s New York Times bestseller “You Should Have Known,” the Susanne Bier-directed HBO limited series sees the Oscar and Emmy winner playing Grace, a therapist, mother, and wife living the life she’s always dreamed of. When a woman is bludgeoned to death, police investigating the crime land at Grace and her husband’s doorstep, and overnight, Grace’s picture-perfect existence is turned upside down.

Grace vows to “fix this,” though it’s unclear what exactly she’s referring to. HBO’s synopsis for the thriller hints that she’s dealing with “a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations.” She’s been “left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster” and  “must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.”

Kidman won an Oscar for “The Hours” and received nods for “Lion,” “Rabbit Hole,” and “Moulin Rouge!” She landed two Emmy Awards for the first season of “Big Little Lies,” one for acting and another for exec producing.

Bier’s “In a Better World” took home the honor for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars. She won an Emmy for directing AMC spy thriller “The Night Manager.” Bier most recently directed 2019 Sandra Bullock-starrer “Bird Box.”

“The Undoing” premieres May 10.

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