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Everything we know about Nicole Kidman in Babygirl
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Everything we know about Nicole Kidman in Babygirl

It’s been 25 years since Nicole Kidman’s last erotic Christmas movie, and we’re ready for a new one. Fortunately, the good people of A24 are free Baby girl on Christmas Day. Directed by Halina Reijn and starring Kidman and Harris Dickinson, the new film follows the relationship between a powerful CEO and her intern as they embark on a kinky and torrid affair. Awooooga!

This is the movie that will blow up your group chat during the holidays – get ready to start using the milk emoji more than ever – so here’s everything you need to know.

Baby girl premiered earlier this year at the Venice Film Festival, where Reijn was nominated for the festival’s highest award, the Golden Lion. Kidman received the award for Best Actress, but had to miss the ceremony due to the unexpected death of her mother.

“I am in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her. She shaped me, she guided me and she made me. I am beyond grateful to be able to say her name to all of you through Halina,” Kidman said via a statement from Reijn. “The collision of life and art is heartbreaking, and my heart is broken.”

After his successful debut in Venice, Baby girl was part of the Toronto International Film Festival lineup. Reviews from those festivals were mixed to positive, with Vulture’s Allison Willmore calling it “an adventure in self-discovery that’s unabashedly indulgent but always surprising.”

Speak with Vanity fair Ahead of the film’s premiere in Venice, Kidman said filming all the sex scenes in the movie took a toll on her. “It let me down. At one point I thought: I don’t want to be touched. I don’t want to do this anymore, but at the same time I was forced into it. Halina would hold me and I would hold her, because it was just very confrontational for me,” said the actress.

“There were times when we were filming and I thought, ‘I don’t want to have an orgasm anymore,'” Kidman recently said The sun. “It was so present to me all the time that it was almost like a burnout.”

At a screening of the film earlier this month, Kidman told the audience that she’s always trying to push herself in a new direction. “As an actor I’ve always been searching, I’m always going, where haven’t I been? And what can I discover as a person? And this was an area I had never been to before,” she said.

While she isn’t afraid of the unknown, Kidman also asked Reijn to make sure she doesn’t go too far. “When I met Halina and we talked about it, I thought, ‘Just give us a safe place,’ and then, ‘Please don’t make me look like a fool,’” Kidman said when speaking to Variety.

I mean, wouldn’t you be? Like the rest of us, Dickinson is a Kidman fan. “I subtly kept asking her things like, ‘What was it like working with Stanley Kubrick?’ “I always liked to poke at the fact that she’s this monolithic figure in cinema,” he recently shared Variety.

“She is the most comforting, warm artist to work opposite,” Dickinson said. “She sets the tone on set, and she makes it so easy to be vulnerable and funny because she’s so daring. She’s so brave and she does things, and you’re like, ‘What the fuck is that?’ You can’t even imagine it.”

Yes, Baby girl comes out at Christmas, but unless you have a very relaxed relationship with your mother, I think you should leave her at home for this. My colleague Brooke Marine saw the film and I asked her for her opinion. “I can’t think of anything more awkward than experiencing this movie with my family over the holidays,” she told me.

I don’t even think I could handle watching the trailer with my family. This is perfect for that time around December 27, when you urgently need to get out of the house. If you are a “movie-going-at-Christmas” family, may I recommend the Timothée Chalamet Bob Dylan movie? That thing looks sexless, and your dad will love it.