Breaking Baz: Nicole Kidman Never Expected To Play Red-Hot ‘Babygirl’ Role That Explores Female Desire “At This Stage Of My Life”

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EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman says she was smitten the moment filmmaker and writer Halina Reijn revealed the name of a movie she was writing. “I love the title.

So, I was like, ‘Oh! I’d like to be a Babygirl!'” The Oscar-winner says that when she read the script, she was “completely sort of hypnotized” by its “very modern look at women’s sexuality, but also just desire and who we are authentically as people and whether we’re loved for who we are.” Babygirl, which plays in theaters nationwide from Dec.

25, has been having that hypnotizing effect on festival and awards season audiences as well, ever since A24 world-premiered Reijn’s picture at the Venice Film Festival, where Kidman’s red-hot blistering performance won the Lido’s Volpi Cup for Best Actress.

The film does seem to have ignited some sense of “fire and liberation” in people “which is what the film’s about,” she explains.