Realistic sex scenes are one of Nicole Kidman’s strengths.
The shoddy shots she filmed for 1999’s “Eyes Wide Shut” were said to be the catalyst for the end of her marriage to Tom Cruise.
2012’s sexually charged “The Paperboy” featured a disturbing scene where he urinated on Zac Efron’s character to save him from a jellyfish sting. Her eye-poppingly harsh sex scenes in Big Little Lies became one of the most talked-about points of the series.
Now she is leading a film called “Babygirl” It starts with her dramatic orgasm And what follows is a series of sex scenes that would certainly make “Fifty Shades of Grey” or “9 1/2 Weeks” appealing.
“I think it is a very releasing film. I hope it is. I’ve had some people say it’s the most disturbing movie they’ve ever seen, which I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’m so sorry’… A lot of it is about power and it What affects your sexual relationship, Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Babygirl” doesn’t conform to the standard male-oriented format of most cheesy thrillers. lustful hero Kidman’s character is Romy, an older and powerful CEO who is dissatisfied with her marriage to Jacob, played by Antonio Banderas, and turns to her much younger office intern, Samuel. played by harrison dickinsonFor sexual satisfaction.
Kidman, 57, is proud of the female perspective in the film, which was written and directed by Halina Reason, especially because her role was not written for someone in her 20s or 30s, and she was “sexualized and Was kind of mesmerized” “By the script the first time she read it.
As Reason describes it: “There is an animal inside all beings. For women, we haven’t had much room to explore this behavior yet.
Asked about her major orgasms (all faked for the cameras, of course), Kidman admitted: “I’m shy, still… I’m very interested in exploring those things, but I’m not that extroverted. It was too sacred for me to cover up all this.”
Thankfully, her current husband, country singer keith urbanGood at separating your wife and her work.
“My husband is an artist, so he understands everything,” she recently told People, insisting that he stays completely out of the creative process until the final product.
Kidman said in the magazine, “He watches the show while it’s on, everything is edited together… He doesn’t read any scripts, he doesn’t really know what’s happening on the set.”
This situation is a sharp contrast to 1999 when Kidman and Cruise – two of the biggest movie stars on the planet at the time – signed on as husband and wife to star in the notoriously demanding director. Stanley Kubrick’s film “Eyes Wide Shut” Together.
The sensual thriller follows a doctor, played by Cruise, whose wife admits to fantasizing about other men, leading him on a journey of sexual and psychological discovery.
Some of Kidman’s sex scenes were with actor Gary Goba, who played a naval officer in the film. Kidman’s biographer, James L. According to Dickerson, Cruise was not on the closed set when they were filmed.
She tracked down Goba for her 2018 book “Nicole Kidman: A Kind of Life” and told The Post
He was surprised by how raw the sex scenes were, with Goba saying that the pair acted out approximately 50 sexual positions over six days of filming.
On the first day, Goba was stunned when Kubrick asked them both to get completely naked.
Dickerson writes in the book, “Goba was astonished by the specificity Kubrick used to guide his activities.” “The director talked to her as if Nicole wasn’t even in the room. If Nicol heard instructions she didn’t like, she scolded Kubrick for making the suggestion, but she never said no to anything he suggested, no matter how obvious.
Based on what Goba and others told him, Dickerson said he believed those sex scenes forever changed the dynamics of Kidman and Cruise’s marriage.
Dickerson claimed to The Post, “It was the key to their divorce.”
Kidman admitted at the time that she inspired herself to do the filming, but she did it for Kubrick.
“I don’t think I would have done what I did for any other director,” she said in 1999, adding: “Stanley wanted it to be almost pornographic, but he didn’t exploit me.”
Reiterating the stance he still takes on sex scenes, he told Salon magazine: “I did it because I thought it was important to the film. The film deals with sex and sexual passion, and the scene couldn’t have been one of someone pretending to have sex with someone in a bra and panty.
“It has to have graphic quality. It was difficult to go home to my husband after those scenes, but we both decided that we would basically get lost in this world for a year and a half and that’s what we did.
Cruise filed for divorce from Kidman in 2001, citing “irreconcilable differences”. The two have never revealed the real reasons behind the end of their marriage – during which they adopted Bella, now 31 Connor, now 29 years old – but Kidman told Vanity Fair in 2002 that she was so devastated that at one point she was “crying in the fetal position on the floor” due to the divorce.
Kidman told in 2012 hollywood reporter: “People thought that making (“Eyes Wide Shut”) was the beginning of the end of my marriage, but I don’t think that was really the case.”
Her erotic on-screen exploits date back a decade to the film that first brought her to Hollywood’s attention, the 1989 thriller, “Dead Calm.”
In that film, she had an intense sex scene with Billy Zane and an assistant director on the show said he was amazed at how she slipped in and out of character on set.
“There was a lot of violence in the film directed at him,” Dickerson said. “The assistant director said she was surprised that he had brought his young children to the set and immediately after a very violent scene she sat down, completely changed her behavior and started playing with her children.
“Then she would get up and go straight back to this horrible scene without blinking.”
Of course, not everything we see featuring Kidman — who is also mom to 16-year-old Sunday Rose, 13-year-old Faith Margaret, and Urban — is sexually charged. In fact, “Babygirl” is Kidman’s last film of a year featuring notable roles.
She also played the role of a glamorous and successful novelist matriarch Netflix’s whodunit series “The Perfect Couple” and as a high-ranking CIA agent in the action series “Special Ops: Lioness” and lent her voice to the adventure animation “Spellbound”.
She has also been able to display the lighter side of the older-woman-seducing-a-younger-man theme in the romcom “A Family Affair”. Where her character is attracted to Zac Efron (now, somehow, 37) and yes, there are even more steamy scenes.
In fact, Kidman even jokingly admitted that she was completely exhausted from having all the sex in “Babygirl.” Kidman quipped, “There were times when we were shooting where I’d say, ‘I don’t want to have orgasms anymore.’
‘Babygirl’ will release on December 25.
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