Nicole Kidman Gets Rights To INXS ‘Don’t Ever Run Us Apart Baby

An actress. Producer. Music supervisor?

Nicole Kidman using her connections to make a pivotal scene happen in her new erotic thriller, baby girl.

According to the director Halina ReijnThe Oscar winner, 57, was instrumental in securing the rights to the classic INXS song “Never Tear Us Apart” for a montage scene in the new film.

“We put it on the montage. I almost cried. My editor and I, we were screaming at each other,” Reijn explained in an interview with the “The ReelBlend Podcast” on Friday, December 27. “The next day, I called (film studio) A24 and said, ‘Okay, we need to get the rights to this song.’ They said no. They said it was a hard no. And I didn’t sleep for a week. I tried every other song I could think of. He did nothing.”

That’s when Reijn reached out to her lead actress, who managed to pull a few strings.

“And then I called Nicole, just because we got so close. I was just like, ‘I’m so depressed.’ And she said, ‘Give me a day or two.’ And she did,” said Reijn. “She got the rights. The real people reached out and she did it for us. Amazing.”

In baby girlKidman plays a powerful CEO who begins a relationship with a young intern played by Harris Dickinson.

Director of the film recently protect the 29 year age gap between its two stars. (Dickinson at 28.)

In an interview with In a Magazine published on Wednesday, December 25, Reijn was asked to add to the pantheon of romantic films released this year featuring an older woman and a younger man (including Kidman’s A Family Affair and the Anne Hathaway-starring The Idea of ​​You).

“If we see a film where the male actor is the same age as the female actor, we find that strange. Which is crazy. It should be completely normalized that the age gaps are changing and that women have different relationships,” Reijn said. “We’re not trapped in a box anymore. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize patriarchy, and we need to free ourselves from it. It’s very difficult.”

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published earlier this month, Kidman recalled shocked by one early review oh baby girl.

“I think it’s very liberating, this film. I hope it is,” he said. “I’ve had some people say it’s the most disturbing film they’ve ever seen, and I’m like, ‘Oh no, it’s bad by me.’”

For her part, Kidman relished the opportunity to play an older woman who embraced her sensual side.

“Women are often dismissed at a certain stage of their career as a sexual being. So, it was really lovely to be seen like this,” the Oscar winner said THR. “From the moment I read yes, I was like, ‘Yes, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place I haven’t been, I don’t think there have been audiences.’ My character has reached a stage where she has all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all . And I think that’s really relatable.”