Nicole Kidman had to pause filming ‘Babygirl’ sex scenes because she was exhausted from faking orgasms
Nicole Kidman admits in a new interview that filming the sex scenes for her upcoming erotic thriller, “Babygirl,” was so exhausting that she needed to take breaks while the cameras were rolling.
“There were times when we were shooting where I was like, ‘I don’t want to [imitate] orgasm any more,'” the award-winning actress, 57, told the Sun Tuesday.
“Don’t come near me. I hate doing this. I don’t care if I am never touched again in my life!”
In the upcoming rated-R movie, Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who gets into an affair with a much-younger man played by Harrison Dickinson. Her husband is played by Antonio Banderas.
The “Moulin Rouge” star added that she was “so present all the time” during the sex scenes that it was “almost burnout” for her, noting that she often felt pushed to a point where she was just “over it.”
She recognized there was “an enormous amount of sharing and trust and then frustration” between her and her co-stars.
However, Kidman pointed out that she, Dickinson, 28, and Banderas, 64, all took “enormous care” in telling the film’s story.
“We were all very, very gentle with each other and helped each other — Harris, Antonio,” she said.
The trio also worked with an intimacy coordinator for the scenes, but Kidman said she and her co-stars still did not feel “confined” by what they were instructed to do or not to do.
“I’m a huge believer still in the sacredness of the set or the actors’ space, and it never, never being violated,” she explained. “Because it’s ours, it’s the bubble, and then there’s the world outside.”
The “Bombshell” star added that it was also helpful for her to have a female director, Halina Reijn, on set because then she “didn’t feel exploited.”
“I don’t think I could have done it, working with a man,” Kidman admitted. “I actually think the only way I could do this was with her because the two of us would sit and talk.”
The A-lister said she and Reijn, 48, sat down prior to filming and talked about her most “secretive desires.”
“We talked about so many things and still do, that is so secretive and vulnerable — but it’s safe,” she said.
“Being in the hands of Halina I knew she wasn’t going to exploit me. … I felt very much a part of it. It’s the story that I wanted to be a part of, that I wanted to tell, and every part of me was committed to that.”
Kidman also shared that when she read the script, she thought it was “so funny” but was also “turned on by it” and “also sort of hypnotized.”
The “Eyes Wide Shut” star — who is married to country star Keith Urban and shares daughters Sunday Rose, 16, and Faith Margaret, 13, with him — said she chatted with her family before accepting the role.
“When you have a family at home and everything, there has to be a sort of agreement that’s made where you go, ‘I’m now going to go into this and I’m asking your permission to let me go,'” Kidman explained.
“And I have teenage children who understand it and a husband who’s also an artist, so there’s a releasing of you into your artistic life and then you come back to your home and your real life.”
She added, “But there is a sort of letting go that’s required.”
