Nicole Kidman has acquired the rights to INXS Never Tear Us Apart for Babygirl

Actress. Manufacturer. Music supervisor?

Nicole Kidman used her connections to land a key scene in her new erotic thriller, Little girl.

According to the director Halina Reijnováthe Oscar winner, 57, was credited with securing the rights to the classic INXS song “Never Tear Us Apart” for a montage scene in the new film.

“We put it on assembly. I almost cried. My editor and I were yelling at each other,” Reijn explained in an interview with The “The ReelBlend Podcast” on Friday, December 27. “The next day I called (film studio) A24 and said, ‘Okay, we need to get the rights to this song.’ They said no. They said it was hard no. I tried every other song I could think of.”

That’s when Reijn reached for her leading lady, who managed to pull a few strings.

“And then I called Nicole, just because we got so close. I was like, ‘I’m so depressed.’ And she said, “Give me a few days.” And she did,” Reijn said. “She got the rights. She reached out to real people and did it for us. Amazing.”

IN Little girlKidman plays a high-powered CEO who begins a passionate affair with the young intern she plays Harris Dickinson.

The director of the film recently defended the 29-year age difference between her two stars. (Dickinson is 28.)

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 (including Kidman’s A family affair and Anne Hathaway– in the main role 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 an interview with The Hollywood Reporter released earlier this month, Kidman recalled shocked by one early review from Little girl.

“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,” said the Oscar winner 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.”