baby girl Writer-director Halina Reijn shares her thoughts on the age-gap romance depicted in Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson’s new erotic thriller.
in a recent interview in magazinethe filmmakers were asked baby girlCurrently showing in theaters, it joins the recent list of films featuring age-gap romantic relationships, such as May-December and your thoughts.
“If we saw a movie where the actor and actress were the same age, we would think it was weird. It would be crazy,” Rekin said. “The changing age gap and different relationships between women should be completely normalized. We’re not stuck in a box anymore. We’ve internalized the male gaze, we’ve internalized the patriarchy and we need to get away from it. It’s really hard .
baby girl Kidman plays Romy, a powerful CEO who puts her career on the line when she begins a torrid romance with a much younger intern, Dickinson’s Samuel. and families at risk. Lei Jin also told watt She wanted the sex scenes in the movie to “feel incredibly hot and fun, but I also wanted them to be real.”
“Sex is stop-and-go,” she added. “This definitely doesn’t look like a glamor scene from a ’90s Hollywood movie. It’s not like that.
Earlier this month, Kidman opened up in a cover story hollywood reporter On why she felt called to her character baby girl.
“A lot of times, women are dismissed as sexual beings at some point in their careers,” the actress explained. “So it was really beautiful to be seen in that way. From the moment I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I’ve never seen, this is somewhere I’ve never been Places that I don’t think the audience has been to either. “My character has reached a stage where she has all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all. I think that’s really relatable.
