Antonio Banderas looked dapper as he was joined by his partner Nicole Kimpel at the premiere of Babygirl at the Venice Film Festival on Friday.
The Spanish actor, 64, who plays Jacob in the erotic thriller, looked handsome in a black tuxedo suit as he showed off his love for Nicole, 43, on the red carpet.
She paired a pair of sleek black leather pumps with her red carpet ensemble and sported a pair of orange-tinted sunglasses.
Meanwhile, Nicole oozed glamour in a floor-length red gown that featured an asymmetrical strap, a ruched bandeau design and a floral brooch at the chest.
The investment banker added inches to her tall figure with a pair of gold stiletto heels.
Antonio Banderas looked dapper in a black tuxedo as he was accompanied by partner Nicole Kimpel at the premiere of Babygirl at the Venice Film Festival on Friday.
The Spanish actor, 64, who plays Jacob in the erotic thriller, looked handsome in the three-piece suit as he showed off his love for Nicole, 43, on the red carpet.
The beauty carried her essentials in a black Bvlgari mini bag and enhanced her natural beauty with a flawless makeup palette.
During the event, Antonio was joined by Nicole Kidman, 57, who plays powerful CEO Romy in the film.
The actress exuded elegance in a nude corset and black velvet skirt as she posed for photographs with her co-stars.
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.
She admitted she felt “vulnerable” while filming multiple masturbation scenes, as well as a depiction of a submissive/dominant relationship for the new erotic thriller.
Rising British star Harris has a career-defining role as Samuel, the intern who senses that his boss Romy, the CEO of a tech company, wants to be dominated.
Nicole hasn’t done anything like this since the dreamy erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut with then-husband Tom Cruise 25 years ago.
She said an intimacy coordinator and a closed set had been vital to creating the sex scenes that tell the story of her character’s existential crisis, resolved through a taboo-breaking sexual odyssey.
Meanwhile, Nicole oozed glamour in a floor-length red gown that featured an asymmetrical strap, a ruched bandeau design and a floral brooch at the chest.
During the event, Antonio was joined by Nicole Kidman, 57, who plays powerful CEO Romy in the film (pictured, from left: David Hinojosa, Sophie Wilde, Antonio, Nicole, Harris Dickinson and Halina Reijn).
The actress looked elegant in a nude corset top and black velvet skirt as she posed for photos and chatted with her co-stars.
Nicole said: ‘I think this movie is obviously about sex, but it’s also about desire, about your inner thoughts, about secrets, about marriage, about truth, about power, about consent.’
“It’s a woman’s story and I hope it’s a very liberating story. It’s told by a woman through her eyes. It’s a script by Halina (Reijn), she wrote it and directed it and that made it unique, that suddenly I was going to be in the hands of a woman with this material. It was something very close to our shared instincts and very, very liberating.”
She added: “I don’t think there’s a value judgement (on the character). Each person has to react to Romy and her behaviour. My connection to this is that I want to examine human beings, women, on screen, to explore what it means to be human in all the facets of that and the labyrinth of that.”
She said she was “exposed, vulnerable and scared to give it to the world” but that her experience of doing so had been “delicate, intimate and very profound.”
She added: “I knew I wasn’t going to be exploited. However anyone interprets it, I didn’t feel exploited. I felt a part of it. We all looked after each other so much, we were so kind and we helped each other out. I felt very authentic, protected and at the same time real.”
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.
Speaking about the film, Nicole said: “I think this movie is obviously about sex, but it’s also about desire, about your inner thoughts, about secrets, about marriage, about truth.”
It’s been 25 years since Nicole last took on an erotic role when she starred alongside Tom Cruise in the steamy and controversial film Eyes Wide Shut (both pictured).
The film opens with Nicole’s character, Romy Mathis, faking a very convincing orgasm while having sex with her husband, played by Antonio, and then going into another room and masturbating to pornography.
She explores her desire to be dominated with her intern but, unlike previous erotic dramas such as Basic Instinct, female desire does not destroy her career or family life and, without giving away the ending, she remains professionally powerful and married at the conclusion of the story.
Antonio and Nicole often attend red carpet events together and have been together since 2014, the year before Antonio’s divorce from his first wife, Melanie Griffiths, was finalized.
Together they have overcome Antonio’s cancer scare, his heart attack and his fight against COVID-19.
Antonio and his ex Melanie are on good terms, according to what Antonio told a Spanish digital program The 7 o’clock break in 2020: ‘I think we’re both reluctant to bury 20 years of marriage.’
“We are human beings, we make mistakes and that is the human condition. We have to put our egos aside and not try to prove that we are right or find someone guilty of what.”
Antonio and Nicole have been together since 2014, the year before Antonio’s divorce from his first wife, Melanie Griffiths, was finalized.
Antonio was with Melanie from 1996 until the couple finalized their divorce in 2015. They have one daughter together, Stella Banderas Griffiths, whom they welcomed in September 1996 (pictured, 2005).
‘Because it could be both or neither. There comes a time when everything ends and you have to accept it. The life I had with Melanie was beautiful.’
‘It was a wonderful 20 years in which we gave our best and lived wonderful moments that I will never forget.’
“We had a wonderful daughter whom we both love and that is the end result of our relationship, the most beautiful thing we have done together.”
Antonio welcomed his daughter Stella Banderas Griffiths with Melanie in September 1996.
Melanie has two other children, daughter Dakota, 31, with Don Johnson and son Alexander, 35, with Steven Bauer.
