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Is This the Year Harris Dickinson Goes From Anonymous Hunk to Onymous Hunk?
His performance in Babygirl is a display of rare erotic power, and it may finally turn Dickinson from one of the guys, to The Guy.
These thirsty viewers had just left the first press screening of Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, which was a few hours away from being tentatively declared “the year’s hottest movie.” The object of their affection was Harris Dickinson, the 28-year-old British actor who has seemed perpetually on the verge of a breakout since 2017, when he played a sexually confused Brooklyn teen in Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats. At the film’s Cipriani afterparty, the New York Times ’ Kyle Buchanan compared the Babygirl effect to what Challengers did for Josh O’Connor, who’d previously played nice guys and nebbishes. My colleague Alison Willmore opened her review by spotlighting the image of Dickinson “wearing pleated dress pants and no shirt, lifting a robe-clad Nicole Kidman in his arms while George Michael’s ‘Father Figure’ blasts on the soundtrack” — a moment, she wrote, of “disorienting appeal.” She was not the only person to respond to his performance on a primal level.
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