Nicole Kidman cut a glamorous figure as she arrived at the Excelsior Hotel during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Friday.
The 57-year-old actress is attending the Italian festival to promote her new erotic thriller Babygirl, in which she stars alongside Harris Dickinson.
The movie star looked incredible that day wearing a black midi dress with a plunging neckline that highlighted her slender figure.
The garment featured short sleeves and ruffled shoulders, while Nicole added height to her figure with a pair of white heels.
The Oscar winner pulled her blonde hair back into a ponytail and accessorized her outfit with a pair of sunglasses.
Nicole Kidman cut a glamorous figure as she arrived at the Excelsior Hotel during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Friday.
The 57-year-old actress is attending the Italian festival to promote her new erotic thriller Babygirl, in which she stars alongside Harris Dickinson.
In Babygirl, Nicole plays a high-powered New York business executive who begins a risky romance with her much younger intern.
The actress recently admitted she’s not sure she has the “courage” to see the film at the Venice Film Festival.
Talking with Vanity FairShe said: “There’s something inside me that says, ‘OK, this was made for the big screen and for people to see. I’m not sure I have that much courage.”
“I’ve made some pretty revealing films, but not like this one.”
Nicole added that Babygirl is the most “expository” film of her career to date.
The Big Little Lies star said she feels particularly anxious when people see the film’s racy sex scenes.
She said: “It’s like, wow, I’m doing this and now everyone’s going to see it. It’s a very strange feeling.”
Nicole shared her apprehension about the public seeing the sex scenes, admitting the “vulnerable” filming process left her feeling “gutted”.
Nicole appeared in good spirits as she posed for the cameras after arriving at the festival.
The garment featured short sleeves and ruffled shoulders, while Nicole added height to her figure with a pair of white heels.
In Babygirl, Nicole takes on the role of Romy, a business executive trying to balance her career while trying to find fulfillment in her marriage to a theater director (Antonio).
Cracks in their marriage appear when new intern Samuel (Harris) makes his attraction to Romy clear and they begin to explore a “forbidden sexual dynamic.”
Director Halina Reijn is said to have wanted to put special emphasis on the female orgasm in the thriller, with a charged scene showing Romy masturbating.
This isn’t the first time Nicole has starred in a passionate age-gap romance, as she recently took on the lead role in Netflix’s A Family Affair alongside Zac Efron.
In the romantic comedy, the pair starred in a steamy nude scene together, and Nicole gave some insight into the filming process in a recent interview.
She said she thinks it’s “lazy” to rely solely on chemistry when choosing lovers while weighing in on the topic of chemistry tests at auditions.
In Babygirl, Nicole plays a high-powered New York business executive who begins a risky romance with her much younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson.
It’s not the first time Nicole has starred in a passionate age-gap romance, as she recently took on the lead role in Netflix’s A Family Affair alongside Zac Efron (pictured).
She said The Hollywood Reporter‘s Drama Actresses Roundtable: ‘There’s a way to film things, I think relying on chemistry alone is lazy. There’s the script, there’s the interaction; you can literally be directed through everything.’
“Besides, you can’t have chemistry and have it happen on screen,” he added.
A Family Affair was not a hit with critics and claims later surfaced that Nicole’s husband, Keith Urban, was “secretly” pleased by its poor reception.
A source told New Idea that Keith, 56, was not happy about seeing his wife getting close to Zac, after the last time the pair played lovers was 12 years ago in popular crime drama The Paperboy.
“He trusts Nicole absolutely, but he was nervous to see her so comfortable with Zac on screen a second time,” the source said.
“I probably won’t be making a third one, which, deep down, has made Keith extremely happy – something he’ll have to keep to himself, of course!”