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Nicole Kidman, who stars alongside Harris Dickinson successful Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, releasing Dec. 25, explained wherefore she was pulled to prima successful the steamy film.
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Nicole Kidman doesn’t overthink her filmography.
Ahead of the actress’ caller movie Babygirl—which she stars successful alongside Harris Dickinson—releasing connected Dec. 25, she elaborate wherefore she was pulled to enactment with manager Halina Reijin.
“When Halina reached retired for Babygirl, I was already going, ‘Okay, conscionable the rubric alone, I’m in,’” Kidman told Vanity Fair for its Hollywood Issue published Nov. 13. “If I consciousness state and harmless with a person, past I tin conscionable springiness them everything.”
But the Big Little Lies histrion emphasized each aspects of the task inspired her gut reaction.
“I’ve got to consciousness arms astir the task and me,” she continued, “that allows the expression. So overmuch of what you’re offering is profoundly personal. It needs to beryllium held successful that respect for it to truly work.”
In the erotic thriller, the 57-year-old plays Romy, a CEO who pursues a intersexual narration with an intern, Samuel (Dickinson), putting her career—and family—on the line.
And Kidman—who nabbed Best Actress astatine the Venice Film Festival successful September for the role—also expanded connected wherefore she has chosen to enactment with truthful galore women directors successful caller years, explaining that she felt a akin “immediate” yes propulsion toward her relation successful Netflix’s The Perfect Couple.
“I’m trying to enactment each of these women astatine each antithetic ages, astatine each antithetic stages successful their careers,” the Oscar winner added, “and enactment my value down them and go, ‘I’m present and I’m astatine your disposal and I’m ready.’”
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Director Reijin wasn’t the lone 1 Kidman approached with an unfastened attitude, arsenic Dickinson antecedently describing his country spouse arsenic “comforting” and “warm."
“She sets the code connected set, and she makes it truthful casual to beryllium susceptible and to beryllium funny, due to the fact that she is truthful daring,” the 28-year-old explained successful a Variety interrogation published Oct. 23. “She’s truthful brave, and she does stuff, and you’re like, 'What the f--k is that?' You can’t adjacent deliberation of it.”
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