In “Babygirl,” Nicole Kidman plays an accomplished woman who has an affair with her intern. One of the scenes in the film really happened to the director, Halina Reijn. She tells.
As Romy, Nicole Kidman plays an accomplished and respected businesswoman who has an affair – mainly sexual – with her intern (Harris Dickinson). This is the subject of Babygirl, a film directed by Halina Reijn. The actress gives one of her most intense performances of her career.
Throughout the film, the two characters engage in a sulfurous game which is entirely based on a balance of power. In one of the film's key scenes, the intern, Samuel, orders a glass of milk from his boss in a bar and orders her, from a distance, to drink it. She does so.
The director was inspired by her own life to write this scene. While she was acting in a play in Belgium – the filmmaker is also an actress – she says she ventured into a bar when one of her acting partners, a well-known and much younger Belgian actor, ordered her a glass of milk. without speaking to him.
Tom Desroches Halina Reijn, the creator of “Babygirl”.
“He was 15 years younger than me and I had never spoken to himshe explains in IndieWire. I found it amazing, bloated and sexy, so I wanted to reward him by drinking the whole glass. Which I did. It was cow's milk, I had a terrible stomach ache.”
Halina Reijn clarifies that nothing ever happened with the actor in question. The man simply left the bar and the director never saw him again. However, before writing this scene, the filmmaker contacted him to obtain his agreement. Flattered, he immediately agreed to have this moment incorporated into Babygirl.
Babygirl by Halina Reijn, to be seen at the cinema
