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If Nicole Kidman starring within the erotic thriller Babygirl wasn’t stunning sufficient, writer-director Halina Reijn revealed that it may be a continuation of a job beforehand performed by the actress. It was none aside from Alice Harford from the 1999 thriller thriller movie Eyes Extensive Shut.
Within the Stanley Kubrick movie, Kidman’s character Alice tells her husband William (Tom Cruise) a few sexual fantasy she had a few man they noticed whereas vacationing collectively. Within the aftermath, Cruise’s character goes right into a spiral involving intercourse cults and homicide.
Nevertheless, Alice by no means acted on her fantasy which was one thing that left Reijn curious to discover, therefore she ideated Babygirl. Evaluating each the movies, the director identified how they’ve the same theme of monogamy.
“It is about marriage; it is about monogamy. What’s monogamy and may you possess another person or do you must set them free?” she advised Leisure Weekly. In Eyes Extensive Shut, regardless that it was Kidman’s character who had the fantasy, the story follows the ideas and motives of Cruise’s character, leaving the previous unexplored.
“We’re completely in his thoughts, coronary heart, and soul. I need to know, ‘What if she would’ve gone and truly would’ve lived her fantasy?’” the director mentioned earlier than “humbly” presenting her newest film as the reply to these lingering questions.
Reijn admitted that she used Alice’s fantasy man to create Harris Dickinson’s character Samuel, the intern with whom Kidman’s Romy has an affair. “It is my playful revenge on all the flicks which are made by males the place all these ladies are both a femme fatale or a Lolita,” she mentioned.
She purposefully created the character Samuel to be a dreamy human being with a fairy story introduction. A lot in order that at occasions it could actually depart the viewers questioning whether or not he exits or Romy is merely imagining him. Reijn claimed that the entire film is subsequently a “metaphor of 1 massive sexual fantasy.”
The director admitted that she needed to take the artistic liberty and make an erotic movie with some precise nudity in it. “I am enjoying with taboos, and I am provocative and need to provoke a dialogue about sexuality and freedom,” she added.
Babygirl might be launched in theaters on December 25.