‘Babygirl’ Milk Scene Was Based On Real Moment That Left Halina Reijn “A Little Nauseated”
deadline.comWhile creating one of the most erotic scenes of the year, Halina Reijn found out that truth is often sexier than fiction. The Babygirl writer and director explained how she came up with the scene in which Harris Dickinson‘s Samuel sends a glass of milk to his boss Romy (Nicole Kidman) at a bar and orders her to drink it, inspired by something that actually happened to her. “The milk is, of course, an archetype.
We’ve seen it in other movies,” she explained to IndieWire. “It is a great symbol of animalistic sides of ourselves.” Reijn added, “It happened to me.
I was playing in Belgium onstage, and I got offstage, and I had a really good run, and I was like, ‘Oh my god!’ I felt really good about myself for one night in my life.
All my colleagues were like, ‘No, we’re going to bed.’ They’re all boring. I was all alone. 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.
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