Nicole Kidman blushes over orgasm question about ‘disturbing’ new film: ‘I’m very interested in exploring those things’

Even Nicole Kidman gets embarrassed talking about sex.

The actress, 57, covered her face with both hands when asked how she was able to portray new erotic movie “Babygirl.”

“I blush, still! That’s insane,” Kidman told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday.

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“But that’s a good thing, I suppose,” she added. “I’m very interested in exploring those things, but I’m not that extroverted. I was so in character. To pull the curtain back on all of it, it’s too sacred.”

In the Halina Reijn-directed film, Kidman plays a powerful businesswoman who risks her career and family life to have a passionate affair with her much younger intern.

Harris Dickinson, 28, from “Where the Crawdads Sing,” plays said intern.

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As the interviewer pointed out, Kidman’s character has an orgasm with her husband (played by Antonio Banderas) in the beginning of the film that differs from her later orgasms, that she seemingly has with her intern, “where she she’s not worried what anyone thinks of her.”

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“Those ones may not look pretty or sound pretty,” Kidman explained. “Or be what we think is pretty. Halina has always wanted to do something like this. That’s probably why we constantly say we need women in all areas of filmmaking, telling different stories. It’s not just to be more fair. It’s actually because it’s kind of fascinating.”

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“And for people to feel, ‘I can be who I am.’ I want people to go see this in the cinema, not just clicking on this at home, secretly, watching it in their own little secret way. There’s something extraordinary about seeing it with a group of people,” she continued.

Considering the sexual nature of the film, Kidman acknowledged that at least one of her scenes will become a meme on the internet — and that doesn’t completely bother her.

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“You’ve got to let go and be able to make fun of yourself,” she shared. “It’s very much an Australian trait, but I think it’s a necessary trait for life. I know who I am. I try to stay deeply focused on my authentic self and stay with that. Everything else is beyond my control.”

Kidman added, “But let’s wait and see what happens with the [memes from] Babygirl. I may be terribly upset the next time you talk to me.”

The “Big Little Lies” star also said that her role in “Babygirl” made her feel “beautiful” since “a lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a sexual being.”

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“My character has reached a stage where she’s got all this power, but she’s not sure who she is, what she wants, what she desires, even though she seems to have it all. And I think that’s really relatable,” Kidman explained. “There are many women who are going, ‘Well, I’ve done this, I’ve got children, I’ve got this husband, and what do I actually want? Who am I and what are my desires? Do I have to pretend to be something else for people to love me?'”

“I think it’s very releasing, this film. I hope it is,” she went on. “I’ve had some people say it’s the most disturbing film they’ve ever seen, which I’m like, ‘Oh no, I’m so sorry.'”

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Kidman is receiving high praise for her performance in the forthcoming film.

At the Venice Film Festival in August, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.

Meanwhile, the National Board of Review named Kidman the 2024 Best Actress for her performance.

“Babygirl” comes out in theaters on Christmas Day.