Nicole Kidman Has a Steamy Confession About Filming ‘Babygirl’ & First-Look Photos Tell Us All We Need To Know

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October 23, 2024 at 1:52pm EDT

Nicole Kidman said she was “turned on” after reading the script for her upcoming thriller Babygirl and still from the erotic film are promising plenty of steamy moments. “I read the script and I thought it was so funny,” the Oscar-winner told The Sun. “But I also was turned on by it. I was also sort of hypnotized.”

The S&M thriller will see her play a tech executive who has an affair with a younger intern at her company, played by Where the Crawdads Sing star Harris Dickinson. In the film, which is already generating Oscar buzz and, Kidman’s character engages in many intense sex scenes with Dickinson’s character and her on-screen husband, Antonio Banderas. “There were times when we were shooting where I was like, ‘I don’t want to orgasm any more,'” Kidman told The Sun. “It’s like, ‘Don’t touch me.'”

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Kidman Called the Role ‘Liberating’

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Per Deadline, Kidman says working on the film with women at the helm felt “liberating.”

“There’s a sort of a jump off the cliff thing where you go, okay, I’m just going to abandon everything and explore this with the people that I trust in a genre that is already set, but hopefully we can explore new territory and especially with the female at the helm,” she said.
‘Babygirl’ Is From the Same Director as ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’

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‘Babygirl’ is written and directed by Halina Reijn who is the mastermind behind 2022 black comedy horror Bodies Bodies Bodies starring Pete Davidson and Amandla Stenberg.
Dickinson Loved Working With Kidman

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While speaking to Variety, Dickinson gushed about “pinching” himself everyday while working with Kidman.

“She is like the most comforting, warm performer to work across from,” Dickinson said. “She sets the tone on set, and she makes it so easy to be vulnerable and to be funny, because she is so daring. She’s so brave, and she does stuff, and you’re like, ‘What the fuck is that?’ You can’t even think of it.”

“And she’s just got this innate sense of playfulness,” he continued. “And when you have that on set, everything’s so easy.”
Kidman Called The Role ‘Challenging’

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When asked by Variety about the hardest part of filming Babygirl, she responded: “The whole thing.”

“Actually doing it justice and trying to be open and raw and available each day in every which way to explore. Because the nature of that film, it was either going to be completely vulnerable and exposed, or you were going to be protected, and then the thing wouldn’t connect,” she said.
Critics Are Praising Kidman’s Performance

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BBC called Babygirl Kidman’s “bravest and best performance in quite some time.” Indiewire said Kidman was “fearless” in the project and The Hollywood Reporter said, “Kidman is in spectacular form, swinging from outrage to fear to ravenously lustful consent.”