Nicole Kidman has revealed her teenage daughters have no interest in watching her new erotic thriller, Babygirl.
The actress, 57, plays a sexually frustrated CEO called Romy who has a steamy affair with her much younger intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson) in the Halina Reijn-directed drama.
The film follows their dominant/submissive dynamic, with scenes showing Kidman lapping milk from a saucer at Dickinson’s feet, masturbating, and in the throes of passion with her co-star.
While Dickinson, 28, said his family aren’t “prudes” as he recalled his parents watching the intimate scenes, Kidman stressed that her younger children will not be viewing it.
“Well, my daughters aren’t seeing it,” she told The Telegraph on Friday.
The Eyes Wide Shut star shares Sunday Rose, 16, and Faith Margaret, 14, with her husband Keith Urban and adopted children Isabella, 32, and Connor, 29, with her former husband Tom Cruise.
Kidman opposite Harris Dickinson, 29 years her junior, in Babygirl (A24/Niko Tavernise)
“But they’ve also declared that they don’t want to see it,” Kidman clarified. “Neither of them has any interest in seeing Mum like that.”
The Australian star usually watches her scenes back on the monitor while filming but admitted she would have felt “too embarrassed” to do so for this project.
She recalled struggling to watch some of the racier shots during the film’s world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival in August.
“I remember covering my face at one point, and burying my head in Halina’s chest at another. Because it was a bit like, ‘Oh, gosh. I don’t want to watch myself doing this,’” Kidman said.
The Big Little Lies previously said she was “so turned on” by her steamy scenes that she had to pause production.
“There were times when we were shooting where I was like, ‘I don’t want to orgasm anymore,’” she told The Sun.
“It was so present all the time for me that it was almost like a burnout. I don’t care if I am never touched again in my life!”
The film follows Kidman’s character’s affair with a much-younger intern (AP)
Her co-star Dicksinon is a rising British actor who appeared in Triangle of Sadness, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, played Daisy Edgar-Jones’ love interest in Where The Crawdads Sing, and starred in the eerie Disney Plus thriller series, Murder At The End Of The World.
He admitted he initially had reservations about appearing in Babygirl.
“There’s many films that have come before in this world that, to be frank, have been done badly,” the London-born actor told The New York Times last month.
“And I was not scared of Halina doing that, but scared of my own ability.”
He revealed that director Reijn had a tactic for whenever he or Kidman felt embarrassed during a scene.
“She would be like, ‘This is all a performance, and you have to break the facade. You have to laugh,’” he recalled.