Halina Reijn, the writer-director of Nicole Kidman's thriller 'Babygirl', shares her perspective on the film's age-gap relationship and the unrealistic portrayal of intimacy in 1990s films.
- December 27, 2024
AceShowbiz - "Babygirl" director Halina Reijn has expressed her thoughts on the age gap featured in the film, which stars Nicole Kidman (57) and Harris Dickinson (28). In an interview with W Magazine, Reijn discussed the trend of May-December romances in recent movies and emphasized the need to normalize age gaps in relationships.
"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 said. "It should completely be normalized that the age gaps switch and that women have different relationships."
Reijn, 49, also criticized the male gaze and patriarchy that have influenced the portrayal of s**uality in films, particularly in the 1990s. She explained that she wanted the intimate scenes in "Babygirl" to be more realistic and less glamorous.
"S**uality 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," she said.
Reijn's comments align with Nicole Kidman's own views on the role. Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter that it was refreshing to play a woman who was still seen as a s**ual being, even at her age.
"A lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a s**ual being," Kidman said. "So it was really beautiful to be seen in this way."
