NIcole Kidman looks stunning in the new issue of Italian Vogue. Take a peek at the star’s black and white spread, shot by photographer Peter Lindberg and featured on the pages of the publication’s March 2010 edition.

“The more extreme the character, the better,” she explains. “I’m most attracted to the characters that least resemble me. I love playing characters who find themselves on the margins of society, who don’t conform.”

Her upcoming role in The Danish Girl seems to fit that requirement. The Moulin Rouge star plays Einar Wegener, aka Lili Elbe, a male-to-female transgender , who died in 1931 after receiving one of the world’s first sex change operations.