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Little girl director Halina Reijnová defends the 29-year age gap between her lead actors, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
In an interview with In a magazine posted on Wednesday, December 25, Reijn was asked to add to the pantheon of romantic films released this year that feature an older woman and a younger man. (Kidman herself starred on Netflix A family affair with Zac Efron like her love interestwhile Anne Hathaway swooned over Nicholas Galitzin The idea of you.)
“If we see a movie where a male actor is the same age as a female actor, it feels weird. Which is crazy. It should be completely normalized that age gaps change and that women have different relationships,” said Reijn. “We are no longer trapped in a box. We internalize the male gaze, internalize the patriarchy, and need to break free from it. It’s really hard.”
IN Little girlKidman, 57, plays a CEO who begins a passionate affair with a young intern played by Dickinson, 28.
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Babygirl premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in August and Kidman received critical acclaim for her performance.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published earlier this month The Oscar winner recalled being shocked one early movie review.
“I think this movie is very snappy. I hope so,” she said. “Some people have told me it’s the most disturbing movie they’ve ever seen, and I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’m so sorry.’
Kidman relished the opportunity to play an older woman who embraced her sensual side.
“Many times women are discarded as sexual beings at a certain point in their careers. So it was really beautiful to be seen in that way,” the Oscar winner told THR. “From the moment I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place I haven’t been, I don’t think the audience has been.’ My character has reached a stage where she has all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she wants, 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.
“I couldn’t believe they were giving us money to do this,” she said in part. “That sexuality. That it wasn’t written for a 20-year-old. It wasn’t even written for a 30-year-old.”
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson
Niko TavernisKidman’s costar, Dickinson, previously spoke about filming sex scenes with the legendary actress.
“We had a consultation with an intimacy coordinator and then Nicole and I did our own thing once we set the parameters of what we were both comfortable with. he said Variety in October. “The intimacy coordinator he says, ‘What do you feel comfortable with, what do you want as a director, what do you like about this vision?’ They make it easy and do it very subtly without interrupting the actual scene.”
