Nicole Kidman is stripped to her underwear for role in ''Strangerland''a gritty outback thriller

They say artists suffer for their work and Nicole Kidman certainly looked in distress on set on her new bush thriller flick Strangerland this week.

Nicole Kidman was left barefoot and filthy as she was shepherded down the street in her underwear by her co-star Joseph Fiennes.

In the harrowing behind-the-scenes footage of the upcoming gritty Nicole Kidman(46)has undergone her most dramatic transformation yet. 

Barely recognisable Nicole Kidman sports a brunette wig and is almost catatonic, as she plays Catherine Parker one half of a married couple whose two children go missing in the outback.

Wearing a mud-coloured, man's shirt her porcelain skin is smeared with dirt, while her thin legs are caked in mud and her knees torn and bloody.
Her normally auburn hair is bedraggled and lank as she walks zombie-faced and shoeless down the street.

Nicole Kidman clearly portrays the emotional distress of her character, her face wrought with pain as she closes her eyes to shield herself from the world.

Propped up by her on-screen husband played by Fiennes he grabs her by the scruff of her skirt as he carries her through the streets 

Nicole Kidman will star alongside Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love), who will play her husband in the movie, and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix), who will play the policeman leading the investigation in the movie.