Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Open Up About Their Steamy Babygirl Sex Scenes: We ‘Did Our Own Thing’

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson are dishing on how they filmed their sex scenes for Babygirl.

While speaking with Variety about the upcoming erotic drama recently, Dickinson, known for The Iron Claw and Triangle of Sadness, said that he and Kidman “kind of did our own thing with it once we set the parameters of what we were both comfortable with” after consulting with the movie’s intimacy coordinator.

“The intimacy coordinator is saying, ‘What are you comfortable with, what do you want as a director, what are you comfortable doing from that vision?’ ” Dickinson, 28, recalled. “They’re facilitating that and doing it very delicately without interrupting the actual scene.”

In Babygirl, Academy Award winner Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family at risk when she begins a steamy affair with Dickinson’s character, her much-younger intern. When Variety asked Kidman what she found most challenging about making the film, she joked, “The whole thing.”

“Actually doing it justice and trying to be open and raw and available each day in every which way to explore,” she shared. “Because the nature of that film, it was either going to be completely vulnerable and exposed, or you were going to be protected, and then the thing wouldn’t connect. When I met with Helena, and we talked through it, I was just like, ‘Just give us a safe space,’ and then, ‘Please don’t make me look like a fool.’ ”

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Talk to Me‘s Sophie Wilde and Antonio Banderas, who plays Kidman’s character’s husband, also costar in the upcoming movie. Dickinson told the outlet that he kept “pinching” himself every day over sharing scenes with Kidman.

“Subtly, I kept asking her things like, ‘What was it like working with Stanley Kubrick?’ I was there always like poking at the fact that she is this monolithic figure in cinema,” he said, calling Kidman “the most comforting, warm performer to work across from.”

“She sets the tone on set, and she makes it so easy to be vulnerable and to be funny, because she is so daring. He’s so brave, and she does stuff, and you’re like, ‘What the fuck is that?’ You can’t even think of it,” he added. “And she’s just got this innate sense of playfulness. And when you have that on set, everything’s so easy.”

Babygirl is in theaters Dec. 25.

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