In “Babygirl,” Nicole Kidman’s character defines a new dynamic with a younger employee—which culminates in an orgasm. When filming, the director Halina Reijn instructed Kidman to “think of a grizzly bear”: to act “low and growly and beyond vanity.”

 

In “Babygirl,” Nicole Kidman’s character defines a new dynamic with a younger employee—which culminates in an orgasm. When filming, the director Halina Reijn instructed Kidman to “think of a grizzly bear”: to act “low and growly and beyond vanity.”

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A Feminist Director Takes On the Erotic Thriller

Halina Reijn has always loved the genre—and revelled in creating a steamy melodrama for Nicole Kidman in which the protagonist is “greedy,” “dark,” and “wrong.”