STARRING in two major TV series in 2017 and having earned an Emmy nomination for her turn on “Big Little Lies,” Nicole Kidman says the diversity and complexity of roles for women in TV are making the small screen more appealing.

Speaking at the Australian premiere of “Top of the Lake: China Girl,” the Oscar winner, who stars alongside Elisabeth Moss and Gwendoline Christie in the second season of Jane Campion’s drama, said: “Great roles are being developed for women right now — they are not in film; they are in TV.” She added: “They’re on both, but they’re rare in film though.”

“I think in television right now, there’s great opportunity for women because it’s a place in which there is money and directors of this caliber [Campion and Ariel Kleiman] who are willing to work in that medium and write and explore their storytelling,” Kidman added. “I think there’s an enormous appeal for actors working there because you have time to develop a character and for stories to unfold. Like ‘Big Little Lies,’ where there was five amazing roles for women, that’s where obviously the great roles are being developed for women right now.”

But she acknowledged that creating “Big Little Lies,” on which she co-produced with Reese Witherspoon, was done “out of frustration.”

“Reese and I were frustrated because we weren’t being offered the sort of roles we wanted in terms of complexity and that was born out of a desire to create an opportunity for ourselves and our friends,” she said. “We were able to do that because we had the ability to go and option a book like ‘Big Little Lies,’ and we had a company that gave us the money to at least develop it and then it took off.”(SD-Agencies)