Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson on Filming Sex Scenes With Nicole Kidman

Harris Dickinson is dishing on what it was like to film sex scenes with Nicole Kidman in their upcoming movie, Babygirl.

“We’d have a discussion with the intimacy coordinator and then Nicole and I kind of did our own thing with it once we set the parameters of what we were both comfortable with,” Dickinson, 28, told Variety in an article published on Wednesday, October 23. “The intimacy coordinator is saying, ‘What are you comfortable with, what do you want as a director, what are you comfortable doing from that vision? They’re facilitating that and doing it very delicately without interrupting the actual scene.”

In the film, Kidman, 57, plays a businesswoman who has an affair with a younger intern (Dickinson). Her husband, played by Antonio Banderas, is in the dark about the relationship.

When asked what she thought was the most challenging about the movie, Kidman told the outlet, “the whole thing.”

“Actually doing it justice and trying to be open and raw and available each day in every which way to explore,” she continued. “Because the nature of that film, it was either going to be completely vulnerable and exposed, or you were going to be protected, and then the thing wouldn’t connect. When I met with [Director Halina Reijn], and we talked through it, I was just like, ‘Just give us a safe space,’ and then, ‘Please don’t make me look like a fool.’”

While reflecting on the scenes in an interview with Vanity Fair, Kidman admitted it left her “ragged.”

“At some point I was like, I don’t want to be touched. I don’t want to do this anymore, but at the same time I was compelled to do it. Halina would hold me and I would hold her, because it was just very confronting to me,” Kidman told the outlet in August, noting that she felt that way months after filming. “It’s like, Golly, I’m doing this, and it’s actually now going to be seen by the world. That’s a very weird feeling. This is something you do and hide in your home videos. It is not a thing that normally is going to be seen by the world.”

She continued, “I felt very exposed as an actor, as a woman, as a human being. I had to go in and go out, like, I need to put my protection back on. What have I just done? Where did I go? What did I do?

Babygirl hits theaters on December 25.