Nicole Kidman could be leading viewers to wonder if she and co-star Harrison Dickinson really had sex while making their new erotic thriller, “Babygirl,” by revealing that she got so “turned on” by being touched so much that she had to pause filming.
“There were times when we were shooting where I was like, ‘I don’t want to orgasm any more,’” Kidman said in a new interview with The Sun.
Kidman, 57, said the intense, sexual feelings were “so present all the time for me that it was almost like a burnout.”
“Don’t come near me. I hate doing this,” Kidman also said. “I don’t care if I am never touched again in my life!”
VENICE, ITALY – AUGUST 30: Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson attend a red carpet for “Babygirl” during the 81st Venice International Film Festival at on August 30, 2024 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
In the upcoming R-rated film, the Academy Award winner plays a high-powered CEO married to Jacob, played by Antonio Banderas. But she falls into a torrid affair with a much younger man, an intern at her company played by 28-year-old Dickinson.
Kidman, the wife of country singer Keith Urban, is a veteran at stripping down for film and TV roles and for pushing the boundaries of how intimacy is presented on screen. Very famously, she co-starred in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film, “Eyes Wide Shut,” with then-husband Tom Cruise. She performed a scene masturbating to a sexual fantasy and appeared in an orgy scene.
In 2017, the mother of four played a woman engaging in a bizarre sexual ritual with her husband, played by Colin Farrell, in “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.” This past year, Kidman also explored the older woman/younger man dynamic in the Netflix romantic comedy, “A Family Affair.”
Dr. William Harford (Tom Cruise) and Alice Harford (Nicole Kidman) in Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” (Photo by Warner Bros)
Her younger co-star in “A Family Affair” was Zac Efron. She and Efron incidentally also appeared together in the 2012 crime drama, “The Paperboy,” in which his younger-man character becomes infatuated with her character, they have sex and, at one point in the convoluted plot, her character urinates on him to alleviate a potentially fatal jellyfish sting.
Even with this cinematic history, it’s possible that the scenes in “Babygirl” could be Kidman’s “raunchiest yet,” The Sun said.
The “Moulin Rouge” star explained how making the movie required “an enormous amount of sharing and trust and then frustration” among her and her co-stars. She, Dickinson and Banderas all took “enormous care” in telling the film’s story.
“We were all very, very gentle with each other and helped each other,” she said.
The trio also worked with an intimacy coordinator for sex scenes, but Kidman said she and her co-stars did not feel “confined” by what they were instructed to do or not to do.
Kidman said she probably felt more freedom with the sex scenes because she was working with a female director. The thriller is written and directed by Halina Reijn. The Dutch filmmaker said the story was inspired by the 1992 thriller, “Basic Instinct,” with Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas, and by a story she heard about a woman who had never experienced sexual pleasure during her 25-year marriage.
Kidman told The Sun that she felt that she could talk about her most “secret desires” with Reijn. “We talked about so many things and still do, that is so secretive and vulnerable — but it’s safe,” she said.