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Age is just a number for Nicole Kidman Halina Reijn, director of “Babygirl.”
During an interview for the erotic thriller, the director defended the age difference between her two main actors, Kidman, 57, and Harris Dickinson, 28.
“If we see a movie where the actor is the same age as the actress, it seems strange to us. Which is crazy. It should be completely normalized for age differences to change and for women to have different relationships,” said Reijn, 49 years old. said In Magazine.
NICOLE KIDMAN, 57, SAYS IT’S POWERFUL TO BE SEE AS A ‘SEXUAL BEING’ IN AN EROTIC THRILLER
Nicole Kidman, left, and Harris Dickinson in a scene from “Babygirl.” (A24 via AP)
“We’re not stuck in a box anymore. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize the patriarchy, and we need to break free from it. It’s really hard.”
He Oscar-winning actress In the film she played a powerful CEO and mother, Romy, who had an affair with her younger intern, Samuel (Dickinson).
The Dutch director, who also worked on 2022’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” went on to describe that she wanted the sex scenes “to feel incredibly hot, steamy and fun, but I also wanted them to be real.”
“Sexuality is a back-and-forth. It’s never like a glamorous scene from a ’90s Hollywood movie. That’s just not how it works,” Reijn said.
Kidman previously spoke about her “raw and dangerous” new role in the film and explained why it’s empowering to be seen as a “sexual being” in her 50s. (A24 via AP)
Kidman previously spoke about her new “crude and dangerous” role in the film and explained why it’s empowering to be seen as a “sexual being” at 50.
“A lot of times, women are written off at a certain period in their career as sexual beings. So, it was really beautiful to be seen in this way,” the Australian native said. The Hollywood Reporter in part.
Nicole Kidman’s ‘Babygirl’ director Halina Reijn says age differences between the genders should be “normalized.” (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS EROTIC THRILLER ‘BABYGIRL’ WAS ‘LIBERATING’ BUT LEFT HER FEELING ‘VERY EXPOSED’
“From the moment I read it, I thought, ‘Yes, 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 desires, even though she seems to have it all. And I think she’s really relatable.”
Director Halina Reijn, left, and Nicole Kidman on the set of “Babygirl.” (A24 via AP)
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Nicole Kidman, 57, plays a powerful CEO who has an affair with a younger intern, Harris Dickinson, 28, in “Babygirl.” (A24 via AP)
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This was not the first time Kidman worked on a film in which an older woman was interested in a younger man. This year, the actress also starred in Netflix’s “A Family Affair,” with Zac Efron, 37, as her love interest.
Kidman certainly had a busy year with six projects due in 2024, including starring in Netflix’s Paramount+ movie “The Perfect Couple.” series “Leona” and more.
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Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.