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Babygirl Director Defends Age Gap Depicted in the Nicole Kidman Movie: 'It Should Completely Be Normalized'

Nicole Kidman's 'Babygirl' writer-director Halina Reijn said she believes 'it should completely be normalized that the age gaps switch' in movies that depict relationships between women and younger men. 'We’re not trapped in a box anymore,' Reijn said.

Babygirl stars Kidman, 57, as a married tech company CEO named Romy who engages in a risky affair with an intern at her company named Samuel (played by Harris Dickinson, 28). When the director sat down for a conversation with filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko for Interview magazine published Thursday, Dec. 26, she noted that Babygirl is influenced by movies like Elle, Basic Instinct, 9½ Weeks, Secretary, The Piano Teacher and "all the thrillers of the '90s." "I found so much fun in the fact that America to me has a kind of suppressed relationship towards sex, and I do too," Reijn said.

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