In “Babygirl,” Nicole Kidman plays a woman who lives out her sexual desires. In Venice, she and the film team talk about sex scenes, fear – and the “orgasm gap.”
In her new film, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman plays a woman who lives out long-suppressed sexual desires. The erotic drama “Babygirl”, which premieres at the Venice Film Festival, contains many explicit sex scenes. “It exposes me and makes me vulnerable, and I’m scared and all that when it’s presented to the world,” said Kidman (57).
“But doing it with these people here was sensitive and it got very, very deep. We’re all a little nervous right now.” Alongside Kidman, Harris Dickinson (28) and Antonio Banderas (64) star in Halina Reijn’s film. Kidman plays a businesswoman who gets involved in an affair with a much younger intern (Dickinson). Banderas plays her husband.
Banderas said the film was an exception in a time when “political correctness” had triggered a kind of self-censorship. “We are prisoners of our instincts. We are animals. There is nothing democratic about nature.”
One of the film’s themes is female desire. One reason for making the film was the huge “orgasm gap,” said the Dutch director – the observation that women have fewer orgasms on average than men. “Take note of that, men,” Reijn appealed. “Not you, Harris,” she added jokingly.
Source: Stern
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