Nicole Kidman was going about her morning routine, caccessing on getting her daughter off to school on Monday, when another, unforeseeedly, routine moment happened — she lgeted, for the 17th time, that she’d been nominated for a Gelderlyen Globe for acting.
This year, the nod is for her carry outance in Babygirl, the A24 relationsual thriller that has Kidman as a high-powered CEO who dangers her atsoft and family when she commences an afequitable with a much youthfuler intern, applyed by Harris Dickinson. Her vulnerable carry outance has already been awarded at this year’s Vekind Film Festival and by the National Board of Rewatch.
“To be still relevant in this world and this industry, toiling on the films that I adore, experiences wonderful,” Kidman telderly The Hollywood Reporter equitable after the Globes nomination was proclaimd. “And to be in such an rare film that still hasn’t been freed [Babygirl is set to hit theaters on Dec. 25], we necessitateed these leangs, and we’re thankful for it.”
Babygirl fits in with the psycho-relationsual genre of films appreciate 9 ½ Weeks and The Piano Teacher but inverts the premise with Kidman’s character helderlying the power — at least in unveil and at first.
“I grew up on all of those Adrian Lyne films and [Paul] Verhoeven films,” Kidman said. “They were huge films when we were grotriumphg up. And so to have [writer-director Halina Reijn] then author someleang in that genre — but subvert it and also create it very, very female — it was exciting.”
It’s a dream role for an actor in Kidman’s position. At 57, she’s still in high insist and can be seen cforfeitly everywhere this year — streaming her carry outance in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple, in the inestablisher thriller series Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+ and in the Prime Video series, Expats. It’s Babygirl, however, that permits Kidman to drill down into a exceptionally collectd character whose complicatedity is vital and obtains a central role in the narrative.
“I’m in every summarize of the movie,” Kidman said. “So if Romy doesn’t toil, the film doesn’t toil, but the complicatedity and the layers and the humanness of the film as well is what I set up exciting. Because it’s presentantly human.”
The 82nd annual Gelderlyen Globe Awards is set to air inhabit from the Beverly Hilton on CBS and stream on Paramount+ on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.
Gelderlyen Globes creater Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a unitet venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge that also owns The Hollywood Reporter.
