Nicole Kidman is once again pushing boundaries with her latest erotic thriller Babygirl.
She recently opened up about the new film and described it as so intimate that it feels like “something you do and hide in your home videos.”
The 57-year-old Oscar-winning actress stars in the film directed by Halina Reijn, which follows a successful CEO who begins a passionate affair with a young intern at her company.
Kidman portrays Romy, the CEO, opposite Harris Dickinson as the intern Samuel, with Antonio Banderas playing Romy’s husband Jacob.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Kidman shared her experience of filming the explicit scenes in the upcoming erotic thriller.
She explained, “It left me ragged. At some point I was like, I don’t want to be touched.”
“I don’t want to do this anymore, but at the same time I was compelled to do it.”
The actress expressed nervousness about the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival, admitting she was unsure if she would be “brave” enough to watch it back.
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.”
She continued, “This is something you do and hide in your home videos. It is not a thing that normally is going to be seen by the world.”
Kidman admitted that the role required her to bear not just her physical self but also her emotional core.
“I felt very exposed as an actor, as a woman, as a human being. I had to go in and out like, I need to put my protection back on. What have I just done? Where did I go? What did I do?”
Although the film has a strong sexual theme, Kidman later explained at a Venice Film Festival press conference that while Babygirl is “obviously about sex,” it is also about “desire, secrets, marriage, power, and consent.”
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