Nicole Kidman: Women Are 'Discarded' As Sexual Beings At Certain Point In Career
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The actor, 57, said some people have found her new erotic thriller, "Babygirl," to be "the most disturbing film they've ever seen.”
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.”