Art imitated life for director Halina Reijn.
Reijn — director, screenwriter and co-producer of a new erotic thriller Girl starring Nicole Kidman — was revealed in a recent W Magazine interview that a particularly sensual scene from the film happened to her in real life.
That scene involves Kidman’s character Romy, a powerful CEO and “perfect” wife and mother, accepting a tall glass of milk from intern Samuel (played by Harris Dickinson) while at a bar with friends and colleagues. Romy drinks milk, much to the astonishment of the people around her, while making direct eye contact with the younger employee.
Reijn, 49, who used to be an actress, told the paper that a similar thing happened to her in her 30s when a “much, much younger” actor sent her a glass of milk at a bar.
“I drank it and it just came out,” she said W Magazine in his profile from December 25. “I thought, ‘How does this guy get the courage?’ I thought it was a very sensual thing. And I thought it was very funny.’ ”
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The director also shared a few behind-the-scenes details of the erotic film, including the fact that she hired a fight coordinator to help choreograph the sex scenes between Kidman, 57, and Dickinson, 28.
“You can’t run a fight without a stunt coordinator. Your actors will be injured, and it will look miserable on camera,” she explained, adding, “It’s the same with sex scenes. It’s very, very helpful to have someone who knows all the little tricks and makes everyone feel safe.”
She also noted that actors end up feeling “freer” when they have a choreographed plan for those vulnerable moments.
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in the ‘Babygirl’ scene.
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“Funnily enough, days with intimate scenes are often the clearest. There are still nerves, but everyone comes to the set super prepared,” explained Reijn. “I wanted those scenes to be incredibly hot and steamy and fun, but I also wanted them to be real.”
She continued: “Sexuality is stop and go. It’s never like a glamorous scene from a 90s Hollywood movie. It just doesn’t work that way.”
Reijn also shared how she was initially afraid she wouldn’t be able to find a young actor who could stand up to Kidman.
“When Nicole was on the boat, I woke up completely panicked,” she told the newspaper. “We had one of the best actors in the world. It is impossible to find a young man who is not only as good as her, but can also dominate her.”
“But then I saw Harris inside triangle of sadness“, she added. “He is so vulnerable and yet so masculine and macho. He’s kind of the ideal man because he has all these layers.”
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‘Babygirl’ director Halina Reijn with stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson.
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As for the criticism of the age gap between the two actors?
“If we see a movie where the actor is the same age as the actress, it’s weird to us. Which is crazy,” she said. “It should be completely normalized that age gaps change and that women have different relationships.”
Kidman agreed. While talking to The Hollywood Reporter this month, Big little lies the actress noted 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 said. “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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