Age is only a quantity for Nicole Kidman’s “Babygirl” director, Halina Reijn.
During an interview for the erotic thriller, the director defended the age hole between her two lead actors, Kidman, 57, and Harris Dickinson, 28.
“If we see a film the place the male actor is identical age as the feminine actor, we discover that odd. Which is insane. It ought to fully be normalized that the age gaps swap and that girls have totally different relationships,” Reijn, 49, advised W Magazine.
NICOLE KIDMAN, 57, SAYS IT’S EMPOWERING TO BE SEEN AS ‘SEXUAL BEING’ IN EROTIC THRILLER
Nicole Kidman, left, and Harris Dickinson in a scene from “Babygirl.” (A24 through AP)
“We’re not trapped in a field anymore. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize patriarchy, and we have to free ourselves from it. It’s actually laborious.”
The Academy Award-winning actress portrayed a strong CEO and mother Romy, who partook in an affair along with her youthful intern, Samuel (Dickinson), within the film.
The Dutch director, who additionally labored on 2022’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” continued to explain that she needed the intercourse scenes to “really feel extremely sizzling and steamy and enjoyable, however I additionally needed them to be actual.”
“Sexuality is stop-and-go. It’s by no means like a glamour scene from a Hollywood film within the ’90s. That’s simply not the way it works,” Reijn stated.
Kidman beforehand opened up about her new “uncooked and harmful” function within the movie and defined why it is empowering to be seen as a “sexual being” in her late 50s. (A24 through AP)
Kidman beforehand opened up about her new “raw and dangerous” function within the movie and defined why it is empowering to be seen as a “sexual being” in her late 50s.
“Quite a lot of occasions, ladies are discarded at a sure interval of their profession as a sexual being. So, it was actually stunning to be seen on this method,” the Australian native advised The Hollywood Reporter partially.
Nicole Kidman’s ‘Babygirl’ director Halina Reijn says age gaps between genders must be “normalized.” (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS EROTIC THRILLER ‘BABYGIRL’ WAS ‘LIBERATING’ BUT LEFT HER FEELING ‘VERY EXPOSED’
“From the minute I learn it, I used to be like, ‘Yeah, it is a voice I haven’t seen, it is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t suppose audiences have been.’ My character has reached a stage the place she’s obtained all this energy, however she’s undecided who she is, what she needs, what she needs, though she appears to have all of it. And I believe that’s actually relatable.”
Director Halina Reijn, left, and Nicole Kidman on the set of “Babygirl.” (A24 through AP)
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Nicole Kidman, 57, performs a strong CEO who has an affair with a youthful intern, Harris Dickinson, 28, in “Babygirl.” (A24 through AP)
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This wasn’t the primary time Kidman labored on a film the place an older lady was all in favour of a youthful man. This 12 months, the actress moreover starred in Netflix’s “A Family Affair,” with Zac Efron, 37, as her love curiosity.
Kidman undoubtedly had a busy 12 months with six 2024 initiatives, together with starring in Netflix’s “The Perfect Couple,” the Paramount+ series “Lioness” and extra.
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Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.
