Keith Urban was left blushing when asked if has seen his wife Nicole Kidman’s new erotic thriller Babygirl.
Urban appeared on The Sunday Project this weekend where comedian and guest panelist David Walliams was keen to hear the singer’s thoughts on the racy flick.
‘Have you seen Nicole’s new movie, baby girl? It’s meant to be an erotic thriller’ he asked.
Keith admitted that he had not, which prompted David to probe: ‘Are you looking forward to it?’
A flustered Keith confessed: ‘Very much’ before adding that he was ‘very proud’ of Nicole, because ‘she is very bold with her choices.’
The country star then thrilled his fans by announcing that he has an Australian tour planned.
‘I am thrilled to be coming back and playing, we will play on August next year’ he said, revealing dates in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Wollongong.
The High and Alive World Tour will start on August 13, 2025, at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre.
Keith Urban (pictured) was left blushing when asked if has seen his wife Nicole Kidman’s new erotic thriller Babygirl
It comes after Nicole admitted she felt ‘vulnerable’ filming multiple scenes of masturbation, plus a depiction of a submissive/dominant relationship, for her erotic new thriller Babygirl.
The actress, 57, said that her hands were shaking with nerves yesterday as the film was unveiled, making its global premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Rising British star Harris Dickinson has a career-making turn as Samuel, the intern who intuits that his boss Kidman, the CEO of a tech firm, wants to be dominated.
Kidman has made nothing like it since the dream-like erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut with then-husband Tom Cruise 25 years ago.
She said that an intimacy co-ordinator and closed set had been vital to conjuring the sex scenes which tell the story of her character’s existential crisis, resolved through a taboo-busting sexual odyssey.
Kidman said: ‘I think this film is obviously yes about sex, but it’s about desire it’s about your inner thoughts, it’s about secrets, it’s about marriage, it’s about truth, power, consent.
Urban appeared on The Sunday Project this weekend where comedian and guest panelist David Walliams (pictured) was keen to hear the singer’s thoughts on the racy flick. ‘Have you seen Nicole’s new movie, baby girl? It’s meant to be an erotic thriller’ he asked
Nicole (left) admitted she felt ‘vulnerable’ filming multiple scenes of masturbation, plus a depiction of a submissive/dominant relationship, for her erotic new thriller Babygirl
‘This is one woman’s story and this is I hope a very liberating story. It’s told by a woman through her gaze. It’s Halina (Reijn’s) script, she wrote it and she directs and that made it unique, that suddenly I was going to be in the hands of a woman with this material. It was very dear to our shared instincts and very, very freeing.’
She added: ‘I don’t think there’s a judgement attached (about the character). It’s for each person to react to Romy and the way she behaves. My connection to it is that I want to examine human beings, women, on screen, to explore what it means to be human in all the facets of that and the labyrinth of that.’
She said that she was: ‘exposed and vulnerable and frightened when it comes to giving it to the world’ but that her experience of making it had been: ‘delicate and intimate and very deep.’
She said: ‘I knew she wasn’t going to exploit me. However anyone interprets that, I didn’t feel exploited. I felt very much a part of that. There was enormous caretaking by all of us, we were all very gentle with each other and helped each other. It felt very authentic, protected and, at the same time, real.’
The film opens with Kidman’s character, Romy Mathis, faking a very convincing orgasm while having sex with her husband, played by Antonio Banderas, and then going into another room and masturbating to pornography.
She explores her desire to be dominated with her intern but – unlike in previous erotic dramas such as Basic Instinct – female desire doesn’t destroy her career or her family life and, without giving away the ending, she remains professionally powerful and married at its conclusion.
Keith admitted that he had not, which prompted David to probe: ‘Are you looking forward to it?’ A flustered Keith confessed: ‘Very much’ before adding that he was ‘very proud’ of Nicole, because ‘she is very bold with her choices’
Babygirl sees Nicole star as a a high-powered New York business executive who starts a risky affair with her much-younger intern.
She takes on the role of Romy, a business executive who is balancing her career with trying to find fulfillment in her marriage to a theatre director (Antonio).
The actress recently admitted she’s not sure she has the ‘bravery’ to watch the movie at the Venice Film Festival.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, she said: ‘There’s something in me going: ‘Okay, this was made for the big screen and to be seen with people. I’m not sure I have that much bravery.”
‘I’ve made some films that are pretty exposing, but not like this.’
Nicole added that Babygirl is the most ‘exposing’ film of her career to date.
The Big Little Lies star told how she feels particularly anxious about people seeing the film’s racy sex scenes.
She said: ‘It’s like, golly, I’m doing this, and it’s actually now going to be seen by the world. That’s a very weird feeling.’
Nicole shared her apprehension over audiences seeing the sex scenes, admitting that the ‘vulnerable’ filming process left her feeling ‘ragged’.
Kidman has made nothing like it since the dream-like erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut with then-husband Tom Cruise 25 years ago
