Actress. Producer. Music supervisor?
Nicole Kidman used her connections to make a pivotal scene occur in her new erotic thriller, Babygirl.
Based on director Halina Reijn, the Oscar winner, 57, was instrumental in securing the rights to the basic INXS track “By no means Tear Us Aside” for a montage scene within the new film.
“We put it on the montage. I virtually cried. My editor and I, we have been screaming at one another,” Reijn defined in an interview with the “ReelBlend Podcast” on Friday, December 27. “The subsequent day, I referred to as [movie studio] A24 and I mentioned, ‘OK, we have to get the rights to this track.’ They mentioned no. They mentioned it was a tough no. And I didn’t sleep for every week. I attempted each different track that I may consider. Nothing labored.”
That’s when Reijn reached out to her lead actress, who managed to drag just a few strings.
“After which I referred to as Nicole, simply because we grew to become so shut. I used to be similar to, ‘I’m so depressed.’ And he or she mentioned, ‘Give me a few days.’ And he or she did it,” Reijn mentioned. “She bought the rights. She bought to the actual individuals and she or he did it for us. Wonderful.”
In Babygirl, Kidman performs a high-powered CEO who begins a steamy affair with a younger intern performed by Harris Dickinson.
The movie’s director lately defended the 29-year age hole between her two stars. (Dickinson is 28.)
In an interview with W Journal printed on Wednesday, December 25, Reijn was requested about including to the pantheon of romantic motion pictures launched this yr that characteristic an older lady and a youthful man (together with Kidman’s A Household Affair and the Anne Hathaway-starring The Concept of You).
“If we see a film the place the male actor is identical age as the feminine actor, we discover that odd. Which is insane. It ought to fully be normalized that the age gaps swap and that girls have totally different relationships,” Reijn mentioned. “We’re not trapped in a field anymore. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize patriarchy, and we have to free ourselves from it. It’s actually arduous.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter printed earlier this month, Kidman recalled being shocked by one early evaluate of Babygirl.
“I feel it’s very releasing, this movie. I hope it’s,” she mentioned. “I’ve had some individuals say it’s probably the most disturbing movie they’ve ever seen, which I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’m so sorry.’”
For her half, Kidman relished the chance to play an older lady who embraced her sensual aspect.
“A variety of occasions ladies are discarded at a sure interval of their profession as a sexual being. So, it was actually lovely to be seen on this means,” the Oscar winner instructed THR. “From the minute I learn it, I used to be like, ‘Yeah, it is a voice I haven’t seen, it is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t suppose audiences have been.’ My character has reached a stage the place she’s bought all this energy, however she’s unsure who she is, what she desires, what she wishes, although she appears to have all of it. And I feel that’s actually relatable.”
