From her early, scene-stealing soapie days, through to pop superstardom, and with it the hordes of fans, red carpets, music videos, awards, and major concerts, Kylie Minogue has sure lived the life. The veteran Aussie pop star has also endured the cancer battle, the detractors, and the loss of loved ones. And it’s all there, in Kylie, the three-part Netflix documentary series, the first trailer for which has arrived.
Almost 40 years of Kylie’s glittering career are locked into two-and-a-half minutes, for a video which captures the ridiculous highs, and the gutting lows of a life lived in the spotlight.
Nick Cave, who invited Minogue to join her on his Murder Ballads breakout hit from 1995, “Where The Wild Roses Grow,” and again on his 2014 film 20,000 Days on Earth, contributes to the forthcoming series. “Kylie is this force,” he explains in the new clip. “It’s all outward, giving.”
The trailer invites us in, as Kylie grows up on our screens and the airwaves. We see professional snaps of Kylie cuddling with her ex Michael Hutchence, the late frontman of INXS. The glamor and the smiles are immediately wiped out when the trailer explores Kylie’s battle with breast cancer, and the haters, which lurked for so many years. “We didn’t know if she was ever going to be well again,” her younger sister Dannii explains in the clip. “Music kept us going,” Kylie continues.
We also hear Kylie rip out an expletive that would make many of her compatriots proud.
The project is coming to Netflix on May 20, and directed by Emmy- and BAFTA Award-winner Michael Harte (Three Identical Strangers, BECKHAM) and produced by John Battsek’s Ventureland (WHAM!, The Deepest Breath).
As previously reported, the doc examines how she’s “faced public scrutiny, personal loss, and illness with grit and grace, earning respect far beyond her own fandom,” reads a description from Netflix.
Kylie is one of Australia’s best-selling female artists of all-time, shifting more than 80 million records worldwide. Her collection of awards is positively heaving with 18 ARIAs, induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, the Ted Albert Award for outstanding services to Australian music, the U.K.’s MITS Award, and two Grammys. She has also featured in more than a dozen films, including The Delinquents, Street Fighter, Moulin Rouge!, Kath & Kim, Holy Motors and The Residence.
Her recent hot streak has included Las Vegas residencies; a deal with United Talent Agency (UTA) for live representation in the U.S. and Canada and acting roles worldwide; the Global Icon Award at the 2024 BRIT Awards, becoming just the second woman to win it following Taylor Swift in 2021; and the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award.
In her adopted homeland, the U.K., where she’s celebrated as the “princess of pop,” she boasts 11 No. 1 albums, and in Australia, Kylie’s has tallied nine chart leaders. In the United States, Kylie has landed 12 titles on the Billboard 200, and seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including top 10s with her 1988 cover of “The Loco-Motion” (peaking at No. 3) and 2002’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (No. 7).
Minogue was recently confirmed as the headliner for the 2026 AFL Grand Final Australian rules football championship at Melbourne’s MCG on Sept. 26, becoming the first Australian artist to headline the event since 2021.
