Whatever you want to say about the upcoming Nicole Kidman film, you simply can’t say that the cast and crew haven’t exposed their lives for the marketing.
A couple months after Nicole Kidman admitted she had to pause filming on one scene due to having too many orgasms, the director has admitted that a scene in the film is pulled from her real life.
The film in question is Babygirl, which released on Christmas Day in the US, but will not come out until January 10th in the UK.
Babygirl follows Kidman as a high-powered CEO who begins an affair with a young intern at her company.
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Her affair partner, played by Iron Claw and Triangle of Sadness star Harris Dickinson, initiates a BDSM relationship between the pair.
One scene in particular, involving milk, sees Kidman’s Romy send a glass of milk at the bar.
It turns out to be from Dickinson’s Samuel, with Romy finishing it all in one chug.
He leaves the bar immediately after, calls her a ‘good girl’, and then leaves.
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Where some will think the above is bizarre, others will be hot under the collar at the mere description of the scene.
The director Halina Reijn has stated in an interview with IndieWire that this is drawn from an experience in her real-life involving a much younger actor.
She said: “The milk is, of course, an archetype. We’ve seen it in other movies.
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“It is a great symbol of animalistic sides of ourselves. It happened to me.
“I was playing in Belgium onstage, and I got offstage, and I had a really good run, and I was like, ‘Oh my god!’
“I felt really good about myself for one night in my life. All my colleagues were like, ‘No, we’re going to bed.’ They’re all boring. I was all alone.
“I went to a bar, and I ordered something boring like a Diet Coke because I didn’t drink at that time because I was a control freak.
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“There was this young Belgian actor — I can’t say who it is — but he was famous.
“I knew of him. I’d never spoken to him. He was at least 15 years younger than I, and he ordered me a glass of milk.
“I thought it was an incredible, hot thing to do, and so courageous, and so I wanted to reward him by drinking the whole thing, and I did.
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“It did make me a little nauseated, to be honest with you, because it was cow milk. It was back in the day.”
She went on to clarify he didn’t call her a good girl, saying: “He just walked out. I didn’t have sex with him or anything. But when I was writing, I did think that was one of the most arousing moments of my life.
“There wasn’t even touching. That is what fascinates me about sex. To me, real, shocking sex is often not at all two bodies banging into each other.
“To me, real, shocking sex is about what is in the mind. It’s all suggestion. It’s all imagination.
“Real sex acts to me onscreen are quite boring, which is why we only have two short moments of that.”
Babygirl releases in theatres in the UK January 10.
Topics: Film, Nicole Kidman, Sex and Relationships, TV and Film
Michael Slavin