Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis are teaming up for a new thriller.
The two Academy Award-winning actresses are the stars and executive producers of the crime thriller "Scarpetta," out now on Prime Video.
Based on Patricia Cornwell's bestselling novels, the series follows embattled sisters who are haunted by their father's murder, which happened when they were children. Their father's death inspires Kidman's character, Kay Scarpetta, to become a forensic pathologist.
In preparation for the role, Kidman said she personally learned how to perform an autopsy.
"Oh yeah, all the organs and what comes out first and how you contain them," Kidman told "Good Morning America" in an interview ahead of the show's premiere. "We know how to pick up the scalpel, we know exactly what we're doing, and that takes a lot of time."
Kidman said that playing Kay has been something she's always wanted to do.
"My sister read the novels," Kidman said. "She's crime obsessive. So when it came around, she was like, 'Oh my god, you have to do it. You have to do this.'"
Kidman said Curtis also helped convince her to take the role, saying, "When this woman asks you to do something, she's incredibly beguiling."
In the series, the duo's characters share an onscreen fistfight.