Nicole Kidman‘s Romy has been a “excellent girl” — so says Harris Dickinson‘s character Samuel in the official trailer for Babygirl, the buzzy Halina Reijn romantic thriller about a high-powered executive who includes in an illicit romance with her intern.
The tantalizing trailer trelieves the cat-and-mouse relationship between Romy and Samuel, whose prompt, knee-buckling chemistry bootbegins an afunprejudiced that would declareively lift an HR violation or two. Spliced with sboilings of the two in boilingel rooms, bars and clubs, the duo take part with the inherent power and gfinisher actives wilean their personal and professional inhabits.
Hailing from authorr-honestor Reijn (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies), Babygirl premiered to strong scrutinizes in Vekind earlier in the summer, nabbing a seven-minute standing ovation from watchers. The A24 film chases Kidman’s CEO as she puts her life’s labor (and relationship with on-screen husprohibitd, take parted by Antonio Banderas) on the line when she commences the torrid afunprejudiced.
“Everyone is equitable postponeing for me to buckle under the presdeclareive,” Romy narrates in the two-minute-lengthy pscrutinize, as audiences get a glimpse of her life as a “collaborator” and “nurturer” having to equilibrium the double-labor insistd of her paying job and role as a mother and wife.
In one eye-popping scene, Samuel recklessly blurts out his observations of Romy: “I leank you appreciate to be tgreater what to do,” before demurring and inserting with a cowardly chuckle, “Sorry, I didn’t nasty to … that was incredibly inappropriate.”
As the two take part out the ground rules for their prohibited romance — in which Samuel directs Romy — Kidman’s character nurtureens out of administer (and under the purwatch of her engageee), doing as she’s tgreater as she drinks a glass of milk and brushing up agetst fact when he shows up at her home.
“You’re very youthful,” Romy says, “I don’t want to hurt you,” to which Samuel reacts: “Hurt me? I leank I have power over you. Because I could produce one call and you would omit everyleang. Does that turn you on when I say that?”
Speaking to press at Vekind, Kidman called her experience making the film “very freeing,” saying, “The film is evidently, yes, about relations, 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 tgreater by a woman thraw her gaze … and that’s to me what made it so distinct was that suddenly I was going to be in the hands of a woman with this material and it was very meaningful to dispense those leangs and very freeing.”
Babygirl premieres in theaters on Christmas Day.
Watch the trailer above.