Nicole Kidman Brings New Movie 'Babygirl' to Venice Film Festival 2024, Shares Why Erotic Thriller Was 'Freeing' to Make
Nicole Kidman is at the 2024 Venice Film Festival!
The 57-year-old Oscar-winning actress attended the press conference for her new movie Babygirl alongside co-stars Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, and Sophie Wilde along with director Halina Reijn on Friday (August 30) in Venice, Italy.
The erotic thriller follows Nicole as a high-powered CEO, who puts her life’s work on the line when she begins an affair with a much younger intern.
During the press conference, Nicole explained why she felt filming Babygirl was “freeing.”
Keep reading to find out more…“The film is obviously, yes, about sex, it’s about desire, it’s about your inner thoughts, it’s about secrets, it’s about marriage, it’s about truth, power, consent,” Nicole shared, according to Deadline.
“This is one woman’s story, and I hope a very liberating story,” she continued. “It’s told by a woman through her gaze… and that’s to me what made it so unique was that suddenly I was going to be in the hands of a woman with this material and it was very deep to share those things and very freeing.”
Nicole went on to say that her connection with Babygirl “is that I want to examine human beings, I want to examine women on screen, I want to examine what it means to be human in all the facets of that… But this definitely leaves me exposed and vulnerable and frightened when it’s given to the world, but making it was delicate and intimate and very, very deep.”
Also during the press conference, Harris, 28, gave a special shout-out to the movie’s intimacy coordinator, who “broke the unnecessary barrier around what you have to do… Ultimately, it’s choreography… It’s really nerve-wracking constructing a scene anyway, so if you add something intimate to it, it’s very vulnerable.”
Babygirl will be released on Dec. 25. Find out more about the movie here.
FYI: Nicole is wearing Bottega Veneta. Sophie is wearing a dress by 16Arlington. Harris is wearing Bottega Veneta. Halina is wearing a Miu Miu dress.
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