Nicole Kidman has admitted that things got a little steamy while filming her new erotic drama that she had to temporarily pause production.
The 57-year-old actress stars in the forthcoming A24 film, Babygirl, opposite Iron Claw actor, Harris Dickinson.
The risqué flick sees Kidman take on the role of Romy, a married ambitious tech CEO who begins an intense affair with Samuel (Dickinson), an intern at the high-profile company.
Watch the trailer below:The movie, which is directed by Halina Reijn, explores power dynamics and sexuality within a professional setting through the passionate relationship between Romy and Samuel.
So of course, there are many sexual scenes between the main characters, as well as Kidman and her husband in the film, played by Antonio Banderas, 64.
According to The Sun, this meant many days of filming led to an overwhelming amount of "touch" and "frustration" for the Oscar-winning actress.
"There was an enormous amount of sharing and trust and then frustration. It's like, 'Don't touch me,'" Kidman revealed. "There were times when we were shooting where I was like, 'I don't want to org*sm anymore.'"
The actress, who has been married to country singer Keith Urban for 18 years, shared that sometimes she would feel drained by the process: "Don't come near me. I hate doing this. I don't care if I am never touched again in my life!"
"I'm over it...It was so present all the time for me that it was almost like a burnout," she added.
Babygirl’s early premiere at Venice earned Kidman the Volpi Cup for best actress.
The Big Little Lies star shared in a recent Q&A that participating in a movie of this movie was new territory for her.
"There’s a sort of a jump off the cliff thing where you go, okay, I’m just going to abandon everything and explore this with the people that I trust in a genre that is already set, but hopefully we can explore new territory and especially with the female at the helm," she shared, cited by PEOPLE.
She explained that trusting the filmmaker to keep her and her co-stars safe was important to the shooting process: "You have your director at the helm going, ‘I will protect you. Nothing that’s going to be in the film will be anything that you are not comfortable with. You are going to be okay.'"
Kidman also revealed that she and Dickinson had an "enormous amount of trust" in each other. The 28-year-old elaborated on this, saying: "Of course, there were days where I would go in really terrified of a scene or I don’t know how I’m going to do this."
"There was never a day that if the scene wasn’t working or if we weren’t comfortable or we weren’t getting something, we never felt that time was more important. It was just like, 'Okay, everyone go away for a second,'" he added.
Babygirl arrives in theaters on December 25.
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