How ‘glacial’ Nicole Kidman became Hollywood’s most sexually daring star
In her new film Babygirl, Nicole Kidman pushes the boat out. At 57, she gets on all fours, at the request of Harris Dickinson, who plays a young intern at the tech company run by her character. She laps up cream from a saucer during one of their assignations. Sexually unfulfilled by her husband (Antonio Banderas), she watches pornography while the camera holds tight on her face in close-up, capturing every juddering spasm of pleasure. She also gets hold of one of Dickinson’s ties, discarded at a party, and practically eats it. None of this should actually come as a surprise, still less a jaw-dropping revelation. Kidman has always been one of the most physically unafraid of Hollywood’s A-list female stars. This is the same actress, after all, who was famously dubbed “pure theatrical Viagra” by this newspaper’s then-theatre critic, Charles Spencer, when she disrobed for her British stage debut, David Hare’s The Blue Room, at the Donmar Warehouse in 1998. Kidman’s risk-taking in sexually adventurous roles goes well beyond just nudity, though. The Blue …
