Nicole Kidman was, well, kind of floored by one review of her forthcoming movie Babygirl.
“I think it’s very releasing, this film. I hope it is,” Kidman, 57, told The Hollywood Reporter in a profile published on Wednesday, December 4. “I’ve had some people say it’s the most disturbing film they’ve ever seen, which I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’m so sorry.’”
The movie — set to be released on Wednesday, December 25 — stars Kidman as Romy, a CEO, who starts an illicit relationship with one of her interns, Samuel (Harris Dickinson). For Kidman, the sexually-charged film was something that spoke to her on a deeper level.
“A lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a sexual being. So, it was really beautiful to be seen in this way,” the actress told THR. “From the minute I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t think audiences have been.’ My character has reached a stage where she’s got all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all. And I think that’s really relatable.”
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Kidman also admitted that she felt it was a “raw and dangerous” film to make.
“I couldn’t believe they were giving us the money to make it,” she said, in part. “The sexuality of it. That it wasn’t written for a 20-year-old. It wasn’t written even for a 30-year-old.”
Even though fans have seen Kidman in a multitude of films over the years, something like this — especially when it comes to the sex of it all — allowed the Australian star to tap into her extroverted side.
“I blush, still! That’s insane,” she told THR about the, ahem, multiple orgasms she acts out in the film. “But that’s a good thing, I suppose. I’m very interested in exploring those things, but I’m not that extroverted. I was so in character. To pull the curtain back on all of it, it’s too sacred.”
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Kidman’s costar, the 28-year-old Dickinson, previously spoke about filming sex scenes with the legendary actress. (The two stars’ chemistry has been spoken of highly.)
“We’d have a discussion with the intimacy coordinator and then Nicole and I kind of did our own thing with it once we set the parameters of what we were both comfortable with,” he told Variety in October. “The intimacy coordinator is saying, ‘What are you comfortable with, what do you want as a director, what are you comfortable doing from that vision?’ They’re facilitating that and doing it very delicately without interrupting the actual scene.”
