Nicole Kidman is getting candid about playing an older woman in a racy new thriller.
In a Hollywood Reporter interview published Wednesday, the 57-year-old actor explained why she felt it was important to star in the new film “Babygirl,” in which a “high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern,” per an official description.
“A lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a sexual being. So it was really beautiful to be seen in this way,” Kidman said, reflecting on her role as Romy in the Halina Reijn-directed film.
“From the minute I read it [the script], I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t think audiences have been,’” she added, noting later that “it wasn’t written for a 20-year-old. It wasn’t written even for a 30-year-old.”
The American Australian actor also said that she found Romy’s identity crisis to be “really relatable.”
“My character has reached a stage where she’s got all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all,” Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter.
“There are many women who are going, ‘Well, I’ve done this, I’ve got children, I’ve got this husband, and what do I actually want? Who am I and what are my desires? Do I have to pretend to be something else for people to love me?’”
According to Kidman, some people said that “Babygirl” is “the most disturbing film they’ve ever seen.” But the actor noted that she personally found the project to be “very releasing.”
The movie is already being praised by critics, with the A24 film earning her the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival in September.
“Babygirl,” which also stars Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas and Sophie Wilde, is set to hit U.S. theaters Dec. 25.
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