The director of Nicole Kidman’s ‘Babygirl’ defends the 29-year age difference between the actress and her co-star in the erotic thriller

Age is just a number Nicole Kidman “Babygirl” is directed by Halina Reijn.

During an interview for the erotic thriller, the director defended the age difference between the two main actors, 57-year-old Kidman and 28-year-old Harris Dickinson.

“If we watch a movie where a male actor is the same age as a female actor, it’s weird. It’s crazy. The age gap changing and women having different attitudes should be completely normalized,” Reijn, 49, said. he said In the magazine.

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Nicole Kidman, left, and Harris Dickinson in a scene from “Babygirl.” (A24 via AP)

“We’re not trapped in a box anymore. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize the patriarchy, and we have to free ourselves from it. It’s really hard.”

The Academy Award winning actress portrayed Romi, a powerful CEO and mother in an affair with her young intern, Samuel (Dickinson).

The Dutch director, who also worked on 2022’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, said he wanted the sex scenes to “feel incredibly hot and steamy and fun, but I also wanted them to be real.”

“Sexuality is stop-and-go. It’s never like a glamorous scene in a Hollywood movie in the ’90s. It just doesn’t work that way,” Reijn said.

Kidman previously spoke about her new “raw and dangerous” role in the film and explained why it’s empowering to be seen as a “sexual entity” in her late 50s. (A24 via AP)

Kidman previously spoke about the new one “raw and dangerous” in the film and explains why it’s empowering to be seen as a “sexual entity” in your late 50s.

“A lot of times women are cast as sexual beings at a certain point in their careers, so it was really cool to be seen in that way,” said the Australian native. The Hollywood Reporter partially.

Halina Reijn, director of Nicole Kidman’s Babygirl, says age differences between the sexes should be “normalised”. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

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“From the minute I read it, I said, ‘Yes, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place I haven’t seen, I don’t think there was an audience.'” My character has reached a stage where she has all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she wants, even though she has all of that, and I think that’s really appropriate.”

Director Halina Reijn, left, and Nicole Kidman on the set of Babygirl. (A24 via AP)

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Nicole Kidman, 57, stars in Babygirl as a powerful CEO who has an affair with young intern Harris Dickinson, 28. (A24 via AP)

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This wasn’t the first time Kidman had worked on a film about an older woman interested in a younger man. This year, the actress additionally starred in Netflix’s A Family Affair as the girlfriend of 37-year-old Zac Efron.

Kidman has certainly had a busy year with six 2024 projects, including starring in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple, Paramount+. “Lion” series and more.

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Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.