Nicole Kidman certainly turned heads on Friday when she rocked a show-stopping outfit for the premiere of her new film BabyGirl during the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
The 57-year-old actress stunned in a dramatic nude corset top and black velvet skirt as she walked the red carpet at the glitzy event.
Nicole’s intricately embellished top by Schiaparelli featured high panels of tulle and beautiful refrigerator-style beading, while corset underwires cinched in her narrow waist.
The Australian beauty completed her look with pearl earrings and black suede heels, while Nicole’s features were highlighted with a light and luminous makeup palette.
Nicole exuded confidence on the red carpet despite recently admitting she felt “vulnerable” while filming the intimate sex scenes and said she didn’t feel “brave” enough to watch her own movie.
Nicole Kidman certainly turned heads on Friday when she rocked a show-stopping outfit for the premiere of her new film BabyGirl during the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
The 57-year-old actress stunned in a dramatic nude corset top and black velvet skirt as she walked the red carpet at the glitzy event.
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 Dickinson has a career-changing role as Samuel, the intern who senses that his boss Kidman, the CEO of a tech company, wants to be dominated.
Kidman hasn’t done anything like this since the dreamlike 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.
Kidman 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.”
Nicole’s intricately embellished top by Schiaparelli featured high panels of tulle and beautiful refrigerator-style beading, while corset underwires cinched in her narrow waist.
The star showed off her killer legs in the thigh-high slit skirt as she walked the red carpet.
The Australian beauty completed her look with pearl earrings and black suede heels, with Nicole’s features highlighted with a light, dewy makeup palette.
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 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 said: “I knew she wasn’t going to exploit me. Regardless of how anyone interprets it, I didn’t feel exploited. I felt a part of it. We all looked out for each other so much, we were so kind to each other and we helped each other out. I felt very authentic, protected and at the same time real.”
The film opens with Kidman’s character, Romy Mathis, faking a very convincing orgasm while having sex with her husband, played by Antonio Banderas, 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.
Director Reijn said: “I think all beings have different facets within themselves and we all have a beast inside us. In the case of women, we don’t have much space to explore this behaviour yet.
“I don’t believe in right or wrong, I think we’re both,” she added, adding that men need to work on the “massive orgasm gap.” Actor Dickinson chimed in: “Everyone deserves a good orgasm.”
She added: “I think there’s a confusion about how to behave and how to conduct oneself in sex. Halina was always willing to analyse and question that and question the nuances of that behaviour, which opened up a whole new world for me.”
The steamy film will also feature some very intimate scenes, including one of Nicole’s character masturbating after having sex with her husband, played by Antonio Banderas.
Addressing the erotic scenes, Nicole, who recently starred in another age-gap romance, A Family Affair, admitted that it’s the most “exposed” she’s felt in front of the camera.
Talking with Vanity FairNicole said she’s not sure she’s “brave enough” to see the film on the big screen when it premieres at the Venice Film Festival next month.
“There’s something in 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,'” Nicole told the publication.
“I’ve made some films that are quite revealing, but not like this one,” he added of the “confronting” experience.
Nicole shared her apprehension about the public seeing the sex scenes, admitting the “vulnerable” filming process left her feeling “gutted”.