There’s no disgrace in her sport.
The author-director of Nicole Kidman’s movie, “Babygirl,” is weighing in on the age hole of the celebs within the newly launched erotic thriller.
Halina Reijn sat down with W Journal in an interview revealed on Wednesday and addressed “Babygirl” being part of the current development in films that includes Could-December romances. Kidman is 57 and her lover within the flick, Harris Dickinson, is 28.
“If we see a movie where the male actor is the same age as the female actor, we find that odd. Which is insane,” Reijn, 49, mentioned. “It should completely be normalized that the age gaps switch and that women have different relationships.”
“We’re not trapped in a box anymore,” the author added. “We internalize the male gaze, we internalize patriarchy, and we need to free ourselves from it. It’s really hard.”
“Babygirl” follows Kidman’s character Romy — who’s a married tech firm CEO — as she engages in a dangerous affair with an intern at her firm named Samuel (performed by Dickinson).
Reijn revealed that she made “Babygirl” as a response to the erotic movies, which rose to reputation within the Nineties. She advised the outlet that she wished the intercourse 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 glamour scene from a Hollywood movie in the ’90s. That’s just not how it works,” she added.
“I found so much fun in the fact that America to me has a kind of suppressed relationship towards sex, and I do too,” Reijn advised Interview Journal on Thursday. “I really relate to it. So America serves as a metaphor of my own struggles with this theme.”
Earlier in December, Kidman spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about how “a lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a sexual being,” so “it was really beautiful to be seen in this way” in “Babygirl.”
“From the minute I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t think audiences have been,’” she continued. “My character has reached a stage where she’s got all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all. And I think that’s really relatable.”
