Actress. Producer. Music supervisor? Nicole Kidman used her connections to make a pivotal scene occur in her new erotic thriller, Babygirl.
In line with director Halina Reijn, the Oscar winner, 57, was instrumental in securing the rights to the traditional INXS track “By no means Tear Us Aside” for a montage scene within the new film.
“We put it on the montage. I nearly cried. My editor and I, we had been screaming at one another,” Reijn defined in an interview with the “ReelBlend Podcast” on Friday, December 27. “The following day, I known as [movie studio] A24 and I mentioned, ‘OK, we have to get the rights to this track.’ They mentioned no. They mentioned it was a tough no. And I didn’t sleep for every week. I attempted each different track that I may consider. Nothing labored.”
That’s when Reijn reached out to her lead actress, who managed to tug just a few strings.
“After which I known as Nicole, simply because we grew to become so shut. I used to be similar to, ‘I’m so depressed.’ And she or he mentioned, ‘Give me a few days.’ And she or he did it,” Reijn mentioned. “She received the rights. She received to the actual folks and he or she did it for us. Wonderful.”
In Babygirl, Kidman performs a high-powered CEO who begins a steamy affair with a younger intern performed by Harris Dickinson.
The movie’s director not too long ago defended the 29-year age hole between her two stars. (Dickinson is 28.)
In an interview with W journal revealed on Wednesday, December 25, Reijn was requested about including to the pantheon of romantic films launched this yr that characteristic an older lady and a youthful man (together with Kidman’s A Household Affair and the Anne Hathaway–starring The Concept of You).
“If we see a film the place the male actor is similar age as the feminine actor, we discover that odd. Which is insane. It ought to utterly be normalized that the age gaps change and that ladies have completely different relationships,” Reijn mentioned. “We’re not trapped in a field anymore. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize patriarchy, and we have to free ourselves from it. It’s actually exhausting.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter revealed earlier this month, Kidman recalled being shocked by one early assessment of Babygirl.
“I feel it’s very releasing, this movie. I hope it’s,” she mentioned. “I’ve had some folks say it’s probably the most disturbing movie they’ve ever seen, which I’m like, ‘Oh, no, I’m so sorry.’”
For her half, Kidman relished the chance to play an older lady who embraced her sensual aspect.
“Lots of instances ladies are discarded at a sure interval of their profession as a sexual being. So, it was actually stunning to be seen on this means,” the Oscar winner advised THR. “From the minute I learn it, I used to be like, ‘Yeah, it is a voice I haven’t seen, it is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t assume audiences have been.’ My character has reached a stage the place she’s received all this energy, however she’s unsure who she is, what she needs, what she wishes, regardless that she appears to have all of it. And I feel that’s actually relatable.”
