‘What Have I Just Done?’

Nicole Kidman stars alongside Harris Dickinson within the upcoming erotic movie, “Babygirl,” an A24 characteristic directed by Halina Reijn, recognized for “Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies.”

The movie, first introduced in November 2023, explores the story of a profitable CEO (Kidman) who embarks on a secret affair together with her youthful intern (Dickinson). The forged additionally contains Antonio Banderas, Victor Slezak, Esther McGregor, and breakout star Sophie Wilde from “Discuss to Me.”

Forward of its launch, Nicole Kidman opened up about how “uncovered” she felt filming “Babygirl.”

“There’s one thing in me going, Okay, this was made for the massive display screen and to be seen with individuals,” she informed Vanity Fair. “However then I’m like, That’s a high-wire act. I’m undecided I’ve that a lot bravery,” she admitted, referring to the erotic movie. “I’ve made some movies which can be fairly exposing, however not like this.”

“I do know we completed one factor, and that’s that we made a very sizzling film,” Director Halina Reijn chimed in. “I do not find out about good, dangerous—that’s as much as all people—however I’m certain of that.”

The actress mirrored on what it was like filming the erotic film, admitting, “Sooner or later, I used to be like, I don’t wish to be touched. I don’t wish to do that anymore, however on the identical time I used to be compelled to do it.”

“[Director Halina Reijn] would maintain me and I’d maintain her as a result of it was simply very confronting to me,” she continued. “It’s like, ‘Golly, I’m doing this, and it’s really now going to be seen by the world.’ That’s a really bizarre feeling. That is one thing you do and conceal in your house movies. It isn’t a factor that usually goes to be seen by the world.”

“I felt very uncovered as an actor, as a girl, as a human being,” Kidman later informed the outlet. “I needed to go in and exit like, I have to put my safety again on. ‘What have I simply completed? The place did I am going? What did I do?’ ”

When talking in regards to the movie, Venice Movie Competition creative director Alberto Barbera informed Variety that “Babygirl” is “a few sadomasochistic relationship inside an American company” and is a testomony to the altering tradition.

“In comparison with different related movies, the ending really testifies to the variations between now and the previous,” Barbera added. “A movie on this identical theme 20 or 30 years in the past would have ended very otherwise. With out spoilers, I’ll say that the feminine protagonist who engages in illicit habits, so to talk, prior to now would have been punished.”

Kidman has not too long ago targeted on TV roles in collection like “Lioness,” “Expats,” and Netflix’s “A Household Affair,” the place she starred alongside Zac Efron, who portrays film star Chris Cole, with Joey King enjoying his private assistant, Zara.

Kidman takes on the position of Zara’s mom, Brooke, whereas Kathy Bates portrays her grandmother, Leila.

“To be trustworthy, I got here into it and the forged was already set, so I knew their chemistry as quickly as our first day rehearsals on set,” Director Richard Lagravenese stated, per CinemaBlend. “And so they noticed one another and embraced and talked about outdated occasions and their friendship was obvious proper from the beginning and their capacity to attach and work off of one another was really easy and so swish. You knew proper from the beginning.”

After listening to in regards to the new film, many followers could not assist however level out the age distinction between Kidman, who’s 57 years outdated, and Efron, who’s 36–but the director by no means thought twice about this.

“After we had been making the film, the age disparity by no means got here into query,” he stated. “I by no means considered it as a result of she’s Nicole Kidman and he or she’s sort of ageless. And, the 2 of them simply have this nice connection. I believe it is a kind of cultural issues the place we hit a wave of a typical thought, however it wasn’t aware, you realize, it simply form of occurred. It wasn’t on objective.”

“A Household Affair” is out now. “Babygirl” hits theaters in December.