Nicole Kidman’s latest film is so erotic that she’s afraid to watch it when it premieres in Venice next week.
August 28, 2024, Release 2:30 p.m. ET
She played the lead role in one of the most erotic and controversial films of all time.
And now RadarOnline.com can reveal Nicole Kidmans new film Babygirl is so raunchy that she is afraid to watch the sexually explicit film when it premieres at the Venice Film Festival next week.
The 57-year-old actress said: “I’m not sure I have that much courage. I’ve done some films that are quite revealing, but nothing like this one.”
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“Babygirl” is considered Kidman’s boldest film to date.
Babygirl Kidman plays the influential New York businesswoman Romy, who begins a hot extramarital affair with the young intern Samuel, played by The Iron Claw Actor Harris Dickinson, 28.
The erotic thriller is considered Kidman’s most daring work to date – although she also Stanley Kubrick1999 erotic mystery and psychodrama Eyes wide closed with her then husband Tom Cruise.
Halina Reijn, the 48-year-old director of the film, described it Babygirl as a “really hot movie” with “radically long” sex scenes between Kidman and Dickinson’s characters.
The Australian actress said of the “radically long” sex scenes: “I felt very exposed as an actress, as a woman and as a human being.”
“I had to go in and out, like I had to put my protection back on. What did I just do? Where did I go? What did I do?”
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Harris Dickinson (left) stars alongside Kidman in the film directed by Halina Reijn (right).
Kidman and Reijn apparently met in New York City to talk about their own “raw life experiences” and to help create Babygirl.
The Aquaman Actress told Vanity Fair of experience: “Many of the themes in my films have been explored through the lens of sexuality. I haven’t eliminated that or tried to pretend it wasn’t there.
“It was the ability to speak incredibly honestly and descriptively – woman to woman, as if you were sitting on the bed talking to your sister or your best friend.
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“It’s incredibly safe. Halina has a very strong maternal instinct, so she was very protective of all of us. But especially of me.”
As for the sex scenes, Kidman and Dickinson worked with intimacy coordinators who helped “hint at moments of pleasure, discomfort and everything in between” so the couple could “play authentically.”
Kidman added: “It was killing me. At one point I thought, I don’t want to be touched anymore. I don’t want to do this anymore, but at the same time I felt compelled to do it.”
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Kidman said: “I’m not sure I have that much courage. I’ve made some films that are quite revealing, but nothing like this one.”
She admits that she is afraid to watch Babygirl Speaking at the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival next week, Kidman also said it was a “weird feeling” because the film was more “something you do and hide in your home videos.”
She said: “It’s like I think, ‘My goodness, I’m doing this and now the whole world is actually seeing it. It’s a very strange feeling.
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“It’s something you do and hide in your home videos. It’s not something the world normally sees.”
As RadarOnline.com reported the upcoming premiere of Babygirl comes shortly after Kidman spoke about her experiences working on Eyes wide closed on the 25th anniversary of the Kubrick film last month.
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Kidman and her then husband Tom Cruise attend the premiere of the late Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut” in 1999.
She revealed how the film – in which she and Cruise, now 62, travel through a world full of Orgies and dark rituals – filming was supposed to take only six months. It took almost three years.
Kidman said: “I would have stayed a third year. Does that mean I’m crazy?”
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