Right here’s to the newborn ladies.
Nicole Kidman gave a shoutout to the steamy milk scene in her erotic movie “Babygirl” whereas accepting the Finest Actress Award on the Nationwide Board of Evaluation Awards Gala in New York Metropolis on Tuesday.
On the finish of her speech, Kidman, 57, advised the gang, “I’m going to raise a glass of milk to all of the baby girls in the room,” as she lifted the drink above her head after which chugged it.
The viewers, which was full of different A-listers like Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Elle Fanning, erupted in cheers for Kidman.
“Good girl,” Kidman mentioned with a smile to the gang.
Throughout the scene within the A24 movie, Kidman’s New York CEO character Romy is shipped a glass of milk and compelled to drink it by the younger intern she’s having an affair with, performed by 28-year-old Harris Dickinson.
Later, the intern, Samuel, whispers in Romy’s ear, “Good girl.”
Author-director Halina Reijn, 49, just lately revealed that the scene was impressed by a real-life second.
Reijn advised IndieWire mentioned the state of affairs occurred after she wrapped an appearing manufacturing in Belgium and went out alone as a result of her colleagues have been being “boring.”
“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. 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,” she recalled.
“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. It did make me a little nauseated, to be honest with you, because it was cow milk. It was back in the day.”
Reijn, who didn’t go dwelling with the person, known as the interplay “one of the most arousing moments of my life.”
Kidman has embraced the sexual themes of “Babygirl” whereas doing press for her Golden Globe-nominated movie.
In a latest interview with Selection, the Australian actress addressed whether or not she or Dickinson is the babygirl.
“Both, right?” she mentioned. “As Halina says in the ‘father figure’ scene, we’re not quite sure who’s the daddy. One minute I’m the daddy, next minute he’s the daddy, which is what I love about the way in which she depicts the generations, the way in which power doesn’t matter what age you are, how it shifts.”
“I think everything’s subverted in this film,” she added.
