Babygirl Director Says Milk Scene Happened To Her In Real Life

baby girl a director Halina Reijn revealed that she got inspiration from her real life for Nicole Kidman‘ milk scene.

Reijn, 49, told In a Magazine in an interview published on Wednesday, December 25, that a famous Belgian actor “much younger” than her sent her a glass of milk from across a bar. The incident happened when Reijn, who is also a stage actress, was in her 30s at the time and had gone to a bar following a theatrical performance in her homeland in the Netherlands.

“I drank it, and he walked out,” he said. “I thought, ‘How does this man get the courage?’ I thought it was a very sensible thing to do. And I thought it was very funny.’”

In a scene from the film, CEO Romy (Kidman) receives a glass of milk from intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson) at a bar. Romy continued to drink the milk and stared at Samuel, who looked back at her. The film, which was released on Wednesday, follows their illicit relationship.

Reflecting on the film, Reijn was honest baby girl be added to the list of films being released about age gap romances between an older woman and a younger man. (Kidman, 57, starred in Netflix’s A Family Affair with Zac Efronwhile Anne Hathaway a Nicholas Galitzine portray love interests in Prime Video’s 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.”

Kidman, for her part, noted that “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,” he said The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “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.”

Kidman admitted that she felt baby girl was a a “raw and dangerous” film. to create. “I couldn’t believe they were giving us the money to do it,” he said, in part. “The sexuality of it. It’s not written for a 20-year-old. It wasn’t even written for a 30-year-old.”

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