Nicole Kidman thinks it’s perfectly okay to see Babygirl solo this Christmas.
The actress, 57, spoke with PEOPLE briefly on the red carpet as she arrived at the 2024 Gotham Awards on Monday, Dec. 2. When asked whom audiences should bring with them to watch her new erotic drama, Kidman says, “Whoever you want to, but you can also watch it alone.”
In the film, the Oscar winner plays a CEO named Romy who engages in an increasingly risky affair with an intern named Samuel (Harris Dickinson). Written and directed by Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies), it also stars Antonio Banderas as Romy’s husband and Sophie Wilde as Romy’s ambitious assistant.
Speaking with Vanity Fair in August, Kidman said her Babygirl role “left me ragged” and feeling “very exposed as an actor, as a woman, as a human being.”
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“At some point I was like, I don’t want to be touched. I don’t want to do this anymore, but at the same time I was compelled to do it. Halina would hold me and I would hold her, because it was just very confronting to me,” she recalled.
Of the movie’s intimate moments, she added, “This is something you do and hide in your home videos. It is not a thing that normally is going to be seen by the world.… I had to go in and go out like, I need to put my protection back on. ‘What have I just done? Where did I go? What did I do?’ ”
Kidman said “an enormous amount of trust” was the key to unlocking the chemistry and complex relationship between her and Dickinson’s characters during a Q&A for the movie in Los Angeles Oct. 18.
In that Q&A, Kidman credited Reijn with helping her feel comfortable throughout the filming process. “You have your director at the helm going, ‘I will protect you. Nothing that’s going to be in the film will be anything that you are not comfortable with. You are going to be okay,’ ” she recalled.
Babygirl is in theaters Dec. 25.
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