International Courant
Whereas creating one of the erotic scenes of the yr, Halina Reijn discovered that fact is usually sexier than fiction.
The Babygirl author and director defined how she got here up with the scene through which Harris Dickinson’s Samuel sends a glass of milk to his boss Romy (Nicole Kidman) at a bar and orders her to drink it, impressed by one thing that truly occurred to her.
“The milk is, in fact, an archetype. We have seen it in different films,” she defined to IndieWire. “It’s a nice image of animalistic sides of ourselves.”
Reijn added, “It occurred to me. I used to be taking part in in Belgium onstage, and I bought offstage, and I had a very good run, and I used to be like, ‘Oh my god!’ I felt actually good about myself for one evening in my life. All my colleagues have been like, ‘No, we’ll mattress.’ They’re all boring. I used to be on their lonesome. I went to a bar, and I ordered one thing boring like a Eating regimen Coke as a result of I did not drink at the moment as a result of I used to be a management freak. There was this younger Belgian actor — I can not say who he’s — however he was well-known. I knew of him. I might by no means spoken to him. He was a minimum of 15 years youthful than me, and he ordered me a glass of milk. I assumed it was an unimaginable, scorching factor to do, and so brave, and so I needed to reward him by ingesting the entire thing, and I did. It did make me somewhat nauseated, to be sincere with you, as a result of it was cow’s milk. It was again within the day.”
Though the actor sadly by no means stated “good lady to me,” Reijn quipped, “I want he did. He simply walked out. I did not have intercourse with him or something.
Director Halina Reijn and Nicole Kidman on the set of Babygirl (2024) (Niko Tavernise/A24/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
“However once I was writing, I did suppose that was one of the arousing moments of my life. There wasn’t even touching,” she defined. “That’s what fascinates me about intercourse. To me, actual, stunning intercourse is usually by no means two our bodies banging into one another. To me, actual, stunning intercourse is about what’s within the thoughts. It is all suggestion. It is all creativeness. (Romy) crawling round on a unclean carpet with stains and licking somewhat little bit of sweet out of his hand, and him petting her like she’s an animal — that, to me, is absolutely horny. Actual intercourse acts to me onscreen are fairly boring, which is why we solely have two quick moments of that.”
The A24 erotic office thriller stars Kidman as Romy, a high-powered CEO who places her life’s work on the road when she begins a torrid affair along with her a lot youthful intern Samuel (Dickinson).
