Nicole Kidman’s new movie is so sexually charged that she doesn’t want her teenage daughters to see it.
The Australian actress plays a married middle-aged executive who has a highly erotic affair with a much younger intern in her latest film Babygirl.
Even though the actress says the film aims to show female sexual pleasure as it really is – albeit with the help of a co-star half her age – she doesn’t want the daughters she shares with musician Keith Urban, Sunday Rose, 16, and 14-year-old Faith Margaret, to watch it because of the intense sex scenes.
‘Well, my daughters aren’t seeing it,’ she says in the Telegraph Review, adding: ‘But they’ve also declared that they don’t want to see it. Neither of them has any interest in seeing Mum like that.’
In Babygirl, described as a modern take on the erotic thriller, Kidman, 57, plays Romy, the married but sexually frustrated CEO of an AI-driven logistics firm who embarks on a steamy entanglement with brazen intern Samuel played by 28-year-old British actor Harris Dickinson.
Antonio Banderas plays Jacob, Romy’s handsome theatre director husband.
Previously, Kidman has said she had to fake sex so many times during filming that she ended up ‘almost like burnout’ but equally admits that she was terrified of playing the ‘grunting’ scenes.
‘Don’t forget the grunting,’ she said. ‘That was all actually scary, and I said to Halina (Reijn, the film’s writer and director) at the beginning how scared I was.
Kidman is one of the stars of the erotic A24 film Babygirl, which was written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn
Kidman features in some steamy scenes alongside co-star Harris Dickinson – but says she doesn’t want her teenage daughters to watch
Kidman (right) with her daughter Sunday Rose, 16. Kidman said her teenage daughters have ‘also declared that they don’t want to see it. Neither of them has any interest in seeing Mum like that’
‘But she was like, ‘‘I’ll get you there. It’ll be safe – but I want the embarrassment, I want the struggle.’’
‘Because so much of Romy’s sexuality is caught up in her struggle to release. She can perform, but she can’t let go.
‘And I think that’s a common thread that runs through a lot of women’s sexuality – what they feel it should be, versus what it actually is.’
Kidman added that she was too embarrassed to watch the raunchy scenes at Babygirl’s Venice premiere.
She said: ‘I remember covering my face at one point and burying my head in Halina’s chest at another. Because it was a bit like, ‘‘Oh, gosh. I don’t want to watch myself doing this.”’
Babygirl is now in cinemas nationwide.
The film, which involves Kidman’s character getting erotically entangled with a much younger man, features some graphic scenes
Previously, Kidman has said she had to fake sex so many times during filming that she ended up ‘almost like burnout’
Kidman added that she was too embarrassed to watch the raunchy scenes at Babygirl’s Venice premiere
