Nicole Kidman cut a glamorous figure as she arrived at the Hotel Excelsior during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Friday.
The actress, 57, is attending the Italian festival to promote her new erotic thriller film Babygirl where she stars alongside Harris Dickinson.
The film star looked incredible for the day as she slipped into a black midi dress with a plunging neckline that highlighted her lithe figure.
The garment featured short sleeves and ruffled shoulders while Nicole added height to her frame with a pair of white kitten heels.
Styling her blonde locks into a ponytail, the Oscar winner complimented her outfit with a pair of sunglasses.
Nicole Kidman cut a glamorous figure as she arrived at the Hotel Excelsior during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Friday
The actress, 57, is attending the Italian festival to promote her new erotic thriller film Babygirl where she stars alongside Harris Dickinson
Babygirl sees Nicole star as a a high-powered New York business executive who starts a risky affair with her much-younger intern.
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’.
Nicole appeared in good spirits as she posed for the cameras after arriving at the festival
The garment featured short sleeves and ruffled shoulders while Nicole added height to her frame with a pair of white kitten heels
Babygirl sees Nicole take 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).
Cracks in their marriage appear when new intern Samuel (Harris) makes his attraction to Romy clear and they begin to explore a ‘forbidden sexual dynamic’.
Director Halina Reijn is said to have wanted to put specific focus on the female orgasm in the thriller, with one charged scene showing Romy masturbating.
It is not the first time Nicole has starred in a steamy age-gap romance as she recently took on the leading role in Netflix’s A Family Affair alongside Zac Efron.
In the rom-com, the pair starred in one steamy nude scene together, with Nicole giving an insight into the filming process in a recent interview.
She told how she thinks it is ‘lazy’ to solely rely on chemistry when casting lovers as she weighed in on the topic of audition chemistry tests.
Babygirl sees Nicole star as a high-powered New York business executive who starts a risky affair with her much-younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson
It is not the first time Nicole has starred in a steamy age-gap romance as she recently took on the leading role in Netflix’s A Family Affair alongside Zac Efron (pictured)
She told The Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress Roundtable: ‘There’s a way you can shoot things, I think just relying on chemistry is lazy. There’s the writing, there’s the interaction – you can literally be directed through it.’
‘Also, you can not have chemistry, and onscreen, it’s made,’ she added.
A Family Affair proved not to be a hit with critics, with claims later emerging that Nicole’s husband Keith Urban was ‘secretly’ pleased about its poor reception.
An insider told New Idea that it didn’t sit right with Keith, 56, seeing his wife get cosy with Zac, after the pair last portrayed lovers 12 years ago in the buzzy crime drama The Paperboy.
‘He absolutely trusts Nicole but it unnerved him seeing her get so cosy with Zac on-screen a second time around,’ the source said.
‘She likely won’t be doing a third, which, deep down, has made Keith happy to no end — something he’s having to keep to himself of course!’
