Nicole Kidman opened up about her newest movie, Babygirl — an erotic thriller a few highly effective CEO who begins an affair with a youthful male intern (performed by actor Harris Dickinson). Throughout a press convention on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition on Thursday, August 29, the 57-year-old actress insisted that she “didn’t really feel exploited” whereas engaged on sexually graphic scenes for the film.
Whereas stating that Babygirl is “clearly about intercourse,” Nicole famous that it’s additionally “about want, it’s about your interior ideas, it’s about secrets and techniques, it’s about marriage, it’s about fact, energy, consent,” in response to Selection.
“That is one lady’s story and that is, I hope, a really liberating story,” the Undoing alum defined. “It’s informed by a lady, via her gaze — Halina [Reijn] wrote it, and he or she directed it — and that’s to me what made it so distinctive as a result of all of a sudden, I used to be going to be within the fingers of a lady with this materials.”
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Nicole emphasised that working with a feminine director helped her really feel comfortable whereas filming sure scenes. The Huge Little Lies star even known as the expertise “very releasing” due to how Halina created a protected setting on set.
“It was very pricey to our shared instincts and really releasing,” Nicole added. “I knew she wasn’t going to take advantage of me. Nonetheless anybody interprets that, I didn’t really feel exploited. I felt very a lot part of it. There was huge caretaking by all of us; we have been all very light with one another and helped one another. It felt very genuine, protected and, on the similar time, actual.”
Though filming the film “undoubtedly [left Nicole] uncovered and susceptible and frightened,” she acknowledged that “making it with these folks right here was delicate and intimate.”
Nicole’s current remarks about her film got here days after her interview with Self-importance Honest was printed on Monday, August 26. Whereas talking with the publication, the Australia native admitted that she hadn’t made a movie as “exposing” as Babygirl.
“It left me ragged,” she mentioned about her on-set expertise. “In some unspecified time in the future, I used to be like, ‘I don’t need to be touched. I don’t need to do that anymore,’ however on the similar time, I used to be compelled to do it.”
Babygirl will attain theaters on December 25.
