Nicole Kidman "laughed" when she saw her father's dead body — and her mother had to "slap [her] face" to bring her back to reality.

The 56-year-old actress plays the mother of a missing child in her new show Expats and she's told how she drew on her own real-life reaction following the death of her father Anthony Kidman in 2014 for a scene where her character had to identify a boy's body.