Nicole Kidman’s new movie is so sexually charged that she doesn’t want her teenage daughters to see it.
In her latest film Babygirl, the Australian actress plays a married, middle-aged executive who has a very erotic affair with a much younger intern.
Although 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 for its intense sex scenes.
“Well, my daughters don’t see it,” she says in the Telegraph Review, adding: “But they have also stated that they don’t want to see it. Neither of us has any interest in seeing Mom like this.”
In Babygirl, described as a modern take on the erotic thriller, Kidman, 57, plays Romy, the married but sexually frustrated CEO of an AI-powered logistics company who begins a steamy entanglement with sassy intern Samuel, played by the 28-year-old . British actor Harris Dickinson.
Antonio Banderas plays Jacob, Romy’s handsome theater director husband.
Kidman has previously said she had to fake sex so often during filming that she “almost burned out,” but at the same time admits she was terrified of doing the “grunting” scenes.
“Don’t forget the growl,” she said. ‘That was actually all scary, and I told Halina (Reijn, writer and director of the film) at the beginning how scared I was.
Kidman is one of the stars of the erotic A24 film Babygirl, written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn
Kidman stars in some steamy scenes alongside co-star Harris Dickinson – but says she doesn’t want her teenage daughters watching
Kidman (right) with her daughter Sunday Rose, 16. Kidman said her teenage daughters “have also stated that they don’t want to see it. Neither of us has any interest in seeing Mom like this.”
“But she said, ‘I’ll take you there.’ It will be safe, but I want the shame, I want the struggle.”
‘Because a large part of Romy’s sexuality is wrapped up in her struggle to let go. She can act, but she can’t let go.
“And I think that’s a common thread that runs through a lot of female sexuality: what they think it should be versus what it actually is.”
Kidman added that she felt too embarrassed to watch the raunchy scenes at the Venice premiere of Babygirl.
She said: “I remember covering my face at one point and burying my head in Halina’s chest at another. Because it was kind of like, “Oh, God. I don’t want to see myself doing this.”’
Babygirl is now in theaters nationwide.
The film, in which Kidman’s character becomes erotically entangled with a much younger man, contains some graphic scenes
Previously, Kidman said she had to fake sex so many times during filming that she “almost burned out”
Kidman added that she felt too embarrassed to watch the raunchy scenes at the Venice premiere of Babygirl