BABYGIRL Trailer (2024) Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson

BABYGIRL Trailer (2024) Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson

BABYGIRL Trailer (2024) Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Harris Dickinson, Thriller Movie
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Nicole Kidman‘s Romy has been a “good girl” — so says Harris Dickinson‘s character Samuel in the official trailer for Babygirl, the buzzy Halina Reijn erotic thriller about a high-powered executive who engages in an illicit romance with her intern.

The tantalizing trailer teases the cat-and-mouse relationship between Romy and Samuel, whose immediate, knee-buckling chemistry kickstarts an affair that would certainly raise an HR violation or two. Spliced with shots of the two in hotel rooms, bars and clubs, the duo play with the inherent power and gender dynamics within their personal and professional lives.

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Hailing from writer-director Reijn (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies), Babygirl premiered to strong reviews in Venice earlier in the summer, nabbing a seven-minute standing ovation from viewers. The A24 film follows Kidman’s CEO as she puts her life’s work (and relationship with on-screen husband, played by Antonio Banderas) on the line when she begins the torrid affair.

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“Everyone is just waiting for me to buckle under the pressure,” Romy narrates in the two-minute-long preview, as audiences get a glimpse of her life as a “collaborator” and “nurturer” having to balance the double-work required of her paying job and role as a mother and wife.

In one eye-popping scene, Samuel impulsively blurts out his observations of Romy: “I think you like to be told what to do,” before demurring and adding with a shy laugh, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to … that was incredibly inappropriate.”

As the two play out the ground rules for their taboo romance — in which Samuel commands Romy — Kidman’s character careens out of control (and under the purview of her employee), doing as she’s told as she drinks a glass of milk and brushing up against reality when he shows up at her home.

“You’re very young,” Romy says, “I don’t want to hurt you,” to which Samuel responds: “Hurt me? I think I have power over you. Because I could make one call and you would lose everything. Does that turn you on when I say that?”

Speaking to press at Venice, Kidman called her experience making the film “very freeing,” saying, “The film is obviously, yes, about sex, it’s about desire, it’s about your inner thoughts, it’s about secrets, it’s about marriage, it’s about truth, power, consent … This is one woman’s story, and I hope a very liberating story. It’s told by a woman through her gaze … and that’s to me what made it so unique was that suddenly I was going to be in the hands of a woman with this material and it was very deep to share those things and very freeing.”

Babygirl premieres in theaters on Christmas Day.

Watch the trailer above.

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The married life of Nicole Kidman’s successful CEO threatens to come apart at the seams as she begins a steamy affair with a young intern played by Harris Dickinson in the trailer of Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller Babygirl.

The two-minute-25-second-long trailer opens with Kidman’s character Romy who crosses paths with Dickinson’s character as she notices him confidently petting an aggressive dog outside her office. The sexual tension apparent in their first encounter quickly escalates into a passionate affair, putting her marriage to Antonio Banderas’ character in jeopardy.

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When Romy warns her young lover that he is too young and she doesn't want to hurt him, he slyly counters, “I can make one phone call and you lose everything,” as scenes showing Kidman and Banderas play on the screen.

Kidman won the Best Actress award for her role at Venice Film Festival 2024 after the premiere of Babygirl at the fest. Director Halina Reijn accepted the award on Kidman’s behalf as the actress was unable to attend the event due to the recent passing of her mother.

“I’m in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her… I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you. The collision of life and art is heartbreaking and my heart is broken,” Reijn read out a statement from Kidman at the event.

“The affair at the heart of Babygirl allows Romy and Samuel to play out their confusion around power, gender, age, hierarchy, and primal instinct. Despite its forbidden nature, the joy of that exploration is liberating, even healing,” reads Reijn’s statement on Venice Film Festival’s official website.

Also starring Sophie Wilde, Babygirl is slated to release in US theatres during Christmas.

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NIcole Kidman is a high-powered businesswoman who's wound a bit too tight.

That's been Nicole Kidman's de facto state over the past decade or so (Big Little Lies, The Perfect Couple, Expats, The Undoing, Being the Ricardos), having cornered the market on glamorous anxiety.

And while Kidman shined in those roles, as she shines in pretty much everything, she and writer-director Halina Reijn offer a fascinating, sexy twist on that archetype with Babygirl, which won Kidman the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

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As seen in the first trailer, Kidman is Romy, a high-powered CEO barely holding her professional and personal lives together, even if she is married to a still-would Antonio Banderas. Enter Harris Dickinson's Samuel, a mysterious and "significantly younger" man who exhibits a strong hold over his dog that he soon exercises over Romy.

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An intern at her company, Samuel begins a psychosexual relationship with Romy that subverts their power dynamic and seemingly, as these things often tend to go, threatens Romy's career and family.

"You're very young, I don't want to hurt you," Romy seductively whispers to Samuel.

"Hurt me?' Samuel scoffs. "I think I have power over you. Because I could make one call and you could lose everything. Does that turn you on when I say that?"

Yes. Yes it does. By the time Samuel whispers "Good girl" to a camel-coated Romy, several basements have been flooded.

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Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson in 'Babygirl'. Niko Tavernise/A24
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Though Kidman won the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival, she was not able to accept it, as her mother had just died.

"Today I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after that my beautiful, brave mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, has just passed," Reijn read on Kidman's behalf. "I'm in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her. She shaped me, she guided me, and she made me."

"I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you through Halina," the actress wrote. "The collision of life and art is heartbreaking, and my heart is broken."

In what promises to be a tight, star-studded Best Actress Oscar race, Kidman throws her hat in the ring with Babygirl, out Dec. 25, just in time for the holidays. Because nothing says "Season's greetings" like a little dom-sub play.

Check out the trailer for Babygirl above.
Nicole Kidman lays it all on the line in the first trailer for Babygirl.

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, A24 debuted the first teaser for the erotic thriller, which comes from writer-director Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies) and had its premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in August.

Kidman, 57, plays a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family at risk when she begins a steamy affair with her much-younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson, 28. The cast also includes Talk to Me's Sophie Wilde and Antonio Banderas, who plays Kidman's character's husband.

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Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in "Babygirl". A24
Kidman, who was most recently seen in Netflix's A Family Affair and The Perfect Couple, previously told PEOPLE she enjoys working with female directors "who are taking a huge bite out of this world right now."

"[Expats'] Lulu Wang is one of them, and I was like, yeah, let's go, I'm with you. Mimi Cave, Halina Reijn, who I just finished working with on Babygirl, and people like Susanne Bier and Karyn Kusama. These women are either in their prime or are in that sort of launching stage," she said in April. "I just love being a part of their world and their vision and being able to go, I'm here, I'll support you."

At a Venice press conference, Kidman said she never felt exploited while making Babygirl's intimate sequences.

"That's what made it so compelling, was being in the hands of Halina, because I knew she wasn't gonna exploit me," Kidman told reporters in August. "I mean, however anyone interprets that, I didn't feel exploited. I felt very much a part of it. It's the story that I wanted to be a part of, that I wanted to tell. And every part of me was committed to that."

She added of the cast and crew, "There was enormous care taken by all of us. We were all very, very gentle with each other and helped each other."

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Nicole Kidman at the "Babygirl" premiere at Venice Film Festival on Aug. 30, 2024. Getty Images
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Dickinson, who was most recently seen in The Iron Claw, will also star in the upcoming historical drama Blitz, out later this year.

Babygirl is in theaters Dec. 25.