Whereas creating one of the vital erotic scenes of the 12 months, Halina Reijn came upon that fact is commonly sexier than fiction.
The Babygirl author and director defined how she got here up with the scene wherein Harris Dickinson‘s Samuel sends a glass of milk to his boss Romy (Nicole Kidman) at a bar and orders her to drink it, impressed by one thing that really occurred to her.
“The milk is, in fact, an archetype. We’ve seen it in different motion pictures,” she defined to IndieWire. “It’s a nice image of animalistic sides of ourselves.”
Reijn added, “It occurred to me. I used to be enjoying in Belgium onstage, and I bought offstage, and I had a extremely good run, and I used to be like, ‘Oh my god!’ I felt actually good about myself for one evening in my life. All my colleagues have been like, ‘No, we’re going to mattress.’ They’re all boring. I used to be on their lonesome. I went to a bar, and I ordered one thing boring like a Eating regimen Coke as a result of I didn’t drink at the moment as a result of I used to be a management freak. There was this younger Belgian actor — I can’t say who it’s — however he was well-known. I knew of him. I’d by no means spoken to him. He was no less than 15 years youthful than I, and he ordered me a glass of milk. I believed it was an unimaginable, sizzling factor to do, and so brave, and so I needed to reward him by consuming the entire thing, and I did. It did make me just a little nauseated, to be sincere with you, as a result of it was cow milk. It was again within the day.”
Though the actor sadly by no means stated “good woman to me,” Reijn quipped, “I want he did. He simply walked out. I didn’t have intercourse with him or something.
Director Halina Reijn and Nicole Kidman on the set of Babygirl (2024) (Niko Tavernise/A24/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
“However once I was writing, I did assume that was one of the vital arousing moments of my life. There wasn’t even touching,” she defined. “That’s what fascinates me about intercourse. To me, actual, stunning intercourse is commonly in no way two our bodies banging into one another. To me, actual, stunning intercourse is about what’s within the thoughts. It’s all suggestion. It’s all creativeness. [Romy] crawling round on a grimy carpet with stains and licking just a little little bit of sweet out of his hand, and him petting her like she’s an animal — that, to me, is de facto attractive. Actual intercourse acts to me onscreen are fairly boring, which is why we solely have two quick moments of that.”
The A24 erotic office thriller stars Kidman as Romy, a high-powered CEO who places her life’s work on the road when she begins a torrid affair along with her a lot youthful intern Samuel (Dickinson).
