Actress. Producer. Music supervisor?
nicole kidman Used his contacts to make a key scene happen in his new erotic thriller, Baby girl,
according to the director halina rainThe 57-year-old Oscar winner was instrumental in securing the rights to the classic INXS song “Never Tear Us Apart” for a montage scene in the new film.
“We put it on montage. I almost cried. My editor and I, we were yelling at each other,” Rijn said in an interview. “ReelBlend Podcast” On Friday, December 27. “The next day, I called [movie studio] A24 And I said, ‘Okay, we need to get the rights to this song.’ He said no. He said it was a hard ‘no’. And I didn’t sleep for a week. I tried every other song I could think of. Nothing worked.”
Then Reason reached out to its lead actress, who managed to do the job to some extent.
“And then I called Nicole, just because we got so close. I was just like, ‘I’m so sad.’ And he said, ‘Give me a few days.’ And he did,” Rezn said. “He got the rights. She reached out to real people and she did it for us. Wonderful.”
In Baby girlKidman plays a high-powered CEO who begins a steamy relationship with a young intern harris dickinson,
The film’s director recently defended the 29-year age difference between his two stars. (Dickinson is 28.)
in an interview with w magazine Published on Wednesday, December 25, Reason was asked about the list of romantic films released this year that feature an older woman and a younger man (including Kidman’s film). with family and this Anne Hathaway-starring your opinion,
“If we see a film where the male actor is of the same age as the female actor, we find it strange. Which is madness. It should be completely normalized that the age gap changes and that women have different relationships,” Rejn said. “We are no longer locked in a box. We internalize male attitudes, we internalize patriarchy and we need to free ourselves from that. It’s really hard.”
in an interview with hollywood reporter Kidman recalled being shocked by an early review, published earlier this month Baby girl,
“I think it is a very releasing film. I hope it is,” she said. “I’ve had some people say that it’s the most disturbing movie they’ve ever seen, which makes me say, ‘Oh no, I’m so sorry.'”
For her part, Kidman found the opportunity to play an older woman embracing her sensual side.
“Many times women are discarded as sexual beings at a certain period of their career. So, it was really beautiful to see it that way,” the Oscar winner said heart“From the minute I read it, I was like, ‘Yes, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place I haven’t been, I don’t think the audience has been there.’ My character has reached a stage where she’s got all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, even though it seems like she has it all. I think it’s really relevant.”
