Nicole Kidman stuns in a dramatic nude corset and velvet skirt at the Babygirl premiere during Venice Film Festival – after admitting she’s not ‘brave’ enough to watch the movie after sex scenes left her ‘vulnerable’

Nicole Kidman undoubtedly caused quite a stir on Friday when she wore a dazzling outfit to the premiere of her new film BabyGirl at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

The 57-year-old actress stunned in a dramatic nude corset top and black velvet skirt as she walked the red carpet at the glitzy event.

Nicole’s top was a beautifully embellished Schiaparelli top with high tulle panels and gorgeous beading, while the corset boning accentuated her tiny waist.

The Australian beauty completed her look with pearl earrings and black suede heels, while Nicole’s features were accentuated with a light and dewy makeup palette.

Nicole exuded confidence on the red carpet, despite recently admitting she felt “vulnerable” while filming the intimate sex scenes, admitting she didn’t feel “brave” enough to watch her own film.

In Babygirl, Nicole plays an influential New York businesswoman who begins a risky affair with her much younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson.

She admitted she felt “vulnerable” filming multiple masturbation scenes, plus portraying a submissive/dominant relationship for the new erotic thriller.

Rising British star Harris Dickinson is on the verge of a career-defining role as Samuel, the intern who senses that his boss, Kidman, the CEO of a tech company, wants to be dominated.

Kidman has not made anything comparable since the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut with his then-husband Tom Cruise 25 years ago.

She said an intimacy coordinator and a closed set were essential to creating the sex scenes that tell the story of her character’s existential crisis, resolved through a taboo-breaking sexual odyssey.

Kidman said: ‘I think this film is obviously about sex, but it’s also about desire, about your inner thoughts, about secrets, about marriage, about truth, power and consent.

“This is one woman’s story and I hope it’s a very liberating story. It’s told by a woman through her gaze. It’s Halina’s (Reijn) script, she wrote it and she directs it and that made it unique, that I would suddenly be in the hands of a woman with this material. It was very dear to our shared instincts and very, very liberating.”

She added: ‘I don’t think there’s any judgement attached to it (about the character). It’s up to each person to react to Romy and the way she behaves. My connection to it is that I want to explore people, women, on screen, to explore what it means to be human in all the facets of that and the labyrinth of that.’

She said she felt “exposed, vulnerable and scared to put it out there,” but that her experience making it was “delicate, intimate and very deep.”

She said: ‘I knew she wouldn’t exploit me. However you interpret that, I didn’t feel exploited. I felt really part of it. We were all very caring, we were all very kind to each other and helped each other. It felt very authentic, protected and real at the same time.’

The film opens with Kidman’s character Romy Mathis, who fakes a very convincing orgasm while having sex with her husband, played by Antonio Banderas. She then goes into another room and masturbates to porn.

She explores her desire to be dominated by her intern, but – unlike previous erotic dramas such as Basic Instinct – female desire does not destroy her career or family life and, without giving away the ending, she remains professionally powerful and married to the end.

Director Reijn said: ‘I think that all beings have different sides to them and that we all have a beast inside us. For women, there is not much room to explore this behavior.

I don’t believe in good or bad, I believe we are both.’ She added that men need to work on the ‘huge orgasm gap’. Actor Dickinson joined in the conversation: ‘Everyone deserves a good orgasm.’

He added: ‘I think there’s confusion about how to behave and how to conduct yourself in sex. Halina was always willing to dissect that and challenge that and challenge the nuance of that behaviour, which opened up a whole new world for me.’

The steamy film will also feature some very intimate scenes, including one in which Nicole’s character masturbates after having sex with her husband, played by Antonio Banderas.

Nicole, who recently starred in another romance about a different age gap, A Family Affair, admitted she’s never felt as “exposed” in front of the camera as she does now.

Speaking with Vanity FairNicole said she’s not sure she’s “brave enough” to see the film on the big screen when it premieres at the Venice Film Festival next month.

“There’s something inside me that says, ‘Okay, this is made for the big screen and to be seen with people. I’m not sure I have that much courage,'” Nicole told the publication.

“I’ve made some films that were quite revealing, but nothing like this,” she added of the “confronting” experience.

Nicole expressed concern about the audience seeing the sex scenes, admitting she felt “battered” by the “vulnerable” filming process.