Milk does a physique good!
Chelsea Handler channeled Nicole Kidman throughout the Critics Selection Awards 2025, reenacting the actress’ iconic milk scene from the 2024 erotic thriller “Babygirl.”
Handler, 49, chugged a full glass of milk whereas internet hosting the thirtieth annual present that honors one of the best of flicks and tv on Friday, February 7, on the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
The comic hosted the award present.
“Babygirl was one of my favorite movies this year because I love everything Nicole Kidman does and it even inspired me to hire a new sexy intern,” Handler mentioned, grabbing the glass from somebody off digicam.
“Oh, this must be from him, thank you,” she joked as she started to drink the milk, mirroring the unforgettable scene within the Halina Reijn-directed movie.
“Conclave” actor Ralph Fiennes, 62, joined in on the enjoyable and inspired Handler to complete the glass.
“Good girl. Good girl. Good girl,” the star mentioned, repeating Kidman’s onscreen lover Harris Dickinson’s line from “Babygirl.”
“Keep going, don’t stop, go on, go on,” Fiennes inspired Handler as she completed the milk.
Because the digicam panned to the presenter for the following award, the “I’ll Have What She’s Having” creator was heard saying, “That was a lot of milk.”
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Kidman was up for Greatest Supporting Actress in a Drama Sequence for her function in Paramount+’s “Lioness” at this 12 months’s Critics’ Selection Awards; nonetheless, she misplaced to “Shõgun” star Moeka Hoshi.
The star walked the crimson carpet in a tan-colored Saint Laurent enterprise swimsuit. Kidman dressed up her look in a striped shirt with a silk tie and slingback pumps.
In “Babygirl,” Kidman performs Romy, a married New York Metropolis tech firm CEO who has a dangerous affair together with her younger intern (Dickinson, 28). Antonio Banderas portrays her husband within the flick.
Kidman’s kinky milk scene caught main consideration when the film premiered on Christmas Day.
Within the movie, Dickinson’s character sends her a glass of milk at a bar, and she or he’s compelled to drink it whereas protecting her gaze on her a lot youthful lover.
The director of “Babygirl” shared that she had the same expertise in actual life.
“It happened to me,” Reijn instructed IndieWire.
“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 defined.
“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.”
Regardless of the hype surrounding the arousing thriller, Kidman was noticeably snubbed, gaining zero nominations for the upcoming Oscars on March 2.
