Nicole Kidman has revealed her beloved mother has died, just hours before she was awarded best actress for her role in Babygirl at the Venice Film Festival, which came to a close Saturday.
The actress, 57, who stars as a high-powered New York business executive who starts a risky affair with her much-younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson, was not in attendance.
Instead, her director Halina Reijn read a statement from the actor, revealing that Nicole’s mother died while she was in Venice.
The statement read: ‘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.’
Nicole Kidman has revealed her beloved mother has died, just hours before she was awarded best actress for her role in Babygirl at the Venice Film Festival , which came to a close Saturday
‘I’m in shock, and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her’
Nicole admitted she felt ‘vulnerable’ filming multiple scenes of masturbation, plus a depiction of a submissive/dominant relationship for the erotic new thriller.
Rising British star Harris Dickinson has a career-making turn as Samuel, the intern who intuits that his boss Kidman, the CEO of a tech firm, wants to be dominated.
Nicole has made nothing like it since the dream-like erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut with then-husband Tom Cruise 25 years ago.
She said that an intimacy co-ordinator and closed set had been vital to conjuring the sex scenes which tell the story of her character’s existential crisis, resolved through a taboo-busting sexual odyssey.
The actress said: ‘I think this film is obviously yes about sex, but 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 this is I hope a very liberating story. It’s told by a woman through her gaze. It’s Halina (Reijn’s) script, she wrote it and she directs and that made it unique, that suddenly I was going to be in the hands of a woman with this material. It was very dear to our shared instincts and very, very freeing.’
Her director Halina Reijn read a statement from the actor, revealing that Nicole’s mother died while she was in Venice
The actress, 57, who stars as a high-powered New York business executive who starts a risky affair with her much-younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson, was not in attendance
She added: ‘I don’t think there’s a judgement attached (about the character). It’s for each person to react to Romy and the way she behaves.
‘My connection to it 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.’
She said that she was: ‘exposed and vulnerable and frightened when it comes to giving it to the world’ but that her experience of making it had been: ‘delicate and intimate and very deep.’
She said: ‘I knew she wasn’t going to exploit me. However anyone interprets that, I didn’t feel exploited. I felt very much a part of that. There was enormous caretaking by all of us, we were all very gentle with each other and helped each other. It felt very authentic, protected and, at the same time, real.’
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