Babygirl Director Defends Age Gap Depicted in the Nicole Kidman Movie: 'It Should Completely Be Normalized'

Nicole Kidman Girl screenwriter and director Halina Reijn considers the age gap explored in a new erotic thriller.

In an interview with W Magazine published on Wednesday, December 25, Rein was asked about Fr Girl adding to the recent trend of movies featuring romances from May to December, by Gabrielle Union A perfect find and Laura Dern Lonely Planetat Anne Hathaway’s The idea of ​​you and another Kidman project, A family affair.

“If we see a movie where the actor is the same age as the actress, it’s weird to us. Which is crazy,” said 49-year-old Reijn. “It should be completely normalized that age gaps change and that women have different relationships.”

“We are no longer trapped in a box,” added Reijn. “We internalize the male gaze, we internalize the patriarchy, and we have to break free from it. It’s really hard.”

Girl stars Kidman, 57, as a married tech company executive named Romy who embarks on a high-stakes affair with an intern at her company named Samuel (played by Harris Dickinson, 28).

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L-R) Halina Reijn and Nicole Kidman at a photo call for “Babygirl” during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2024 in Venice, Italy.

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Reijn, also known as 2022 Bodies Bodies Bodiesshe said she did Girl in response to the erotic films popularized in the 1990s. While talking to W Magazine, noted that she wanted the sex scenes “to be 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 from a ’90s Hollywood movie. It just doesn’t work that way,” she added.

When the director sat down to talk with director Eugene Kotlyarenko for Interview magazine published on Thursday, December 26, she noted that Girl is influenced by movies like Ella, Basic instinct, 9½ weeks, Secretary, Piano teacher and “all 90s thrillers.”

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Halina Reijn and Nicole Kidman on the set of Babygirl.

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“I found it very amusing in the fact that America, for me, has a kind of repressed relationship with sex, and I do,” Reijn said. “I really relate to it. So America serves as a metaphor for my own struggles with this subject.”

Kidman said The Hollywood Reporter earlier in December that “a lot of times women are dismissed at a certain point in their careers as sexual beings,” so “it was really nice to be seen in this way” in Girl.

“From the moment I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place I haven’t been, I don’t think the audience has been,'” Kidman added. “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 seems to have everything. And I think that’s really relatable.”

Girlwhich also stars Antonio Banderas, is in theaters now.

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