Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Open Up About Their SteamyBabygirlSex Scenes: We 'Did Our Own Thing'

Mar. 15, 2025

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson on Oct. 18, 2024.Photo:Eric Charbonneau/A24 via Getty

Eric Charbonneau/A24 via Getty

While speaking withVarietyabout the upcoming erotic drama recently, Dickinson, known forThe Iron ClawandTriangle 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.”

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“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 andAntonio 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.”

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson on Oct. 18, 2024.Eric Charbonneau/A24

Eric Charbonneau/A24

source: people.com