It’s the undoing of 2024’s most talked about film.
When Nikki Glaser took the stage at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes on January 5 on CBS, the comedian, 40, didn’t hold back with her jokes.
And since Nicole Kidman was nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her role in the erotic thriller “Babygirl,” the film was fair game.
“Babygirl” follows Kidman’s character Romy — who is a married tech company CEO — as she engages in a risky affair with an intern at her company named Samuel (played by Harris Dickinson, 28).
“Nicole Kidman is here, oh my gosh. Nominated for ‘Baby Girl,’” Glaser said. “Oh my gosh I loved that movie. I gave it two fingers up.”
Giving a nod to Kidman’s husband Keith Urban, the comic teased, “Thank you to Keith Urban for playing the guitar so much that she wants to leave and make 18 movies a year. Keep strumming you kooky coola.”
Last month, the writer-director of “Babygirl,” weighed in on the age gap of the stars and shared where her inspiration for the project came from.
Halina Reijn sat down with W Magazine and addressed “Babygirl” being a part of the recent trend in movies featuring May-December romances.
“If we see a movie where the male actor is the same age as the female actor, we find that odd. Which is insane,” Reijn, 49, said. “It should completely be normalized that the age gaps switch and that women have different relationships.”
“We’re not trapped in a box anymore,” the writer added. “We internalize the male gaze, we internalize patriarchy, and we need to free ourselves from it. It’s really hard.”
Reijn also revealed that she made the movie as a response to the erotic films, which rose to popularity in the 1990s. The director explained her vision to the outlet, expressing that she wanted the sex scenes to “feel incredibly hot and steamy and fun, but I also wanted them to be real.”
“Sexuality is stop-and-go. It’s never like a glamour scene from a Hollywood movie in the ’90s. That’s just not how it works,” Reijn added.
“I found so much fun in the fact that America to me has a kind of suppressed relationship towards sex, and I do too,” Reijn said to Interview Magazine. “I really relate to it. So America serves as a metaphor of my own struggles with this theme.”
Earlier in December, Kidman spoke to the Hollywood Reporter about how “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” in “Babygirl.”
“From the minute I read it, 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. “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. And I think that’s really relatable.”
