‘Babygirl’ director defends age gap in Nicole Kidman erotic thriller: ‘It should completely be normalized’

nypost.com:

Nicole Kidman’s film, “Babygirl,” is weighing in on the age gap of the stars in the newly released erotic thriller.Halina Reijn sat down with W Magazine in an interview published on Wednesday and addressed “Babygirl” being a part of the recent trend in movies featuring May-December romances.

Kidman is 57 and her lover in 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, said. “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 writer 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 is a married tech company CEO — as she engages in a risky affair with an intern at her company named Samuel (played by Dickinson).Reijn revealed that she made “Babygirl” as a response to the erotic films, which rose to popularity in the 1990s.