Writer-director Halina Reijn was crucial to Nicole Kidman’s experience filming “Babygirl,” the actress told Elin Hilderbrand as part of a lengthy interview with The Guardian published on Saturday.
“I don’t think I could have given the performance with a male director. She was the one that wrote it. She was the one that understood it,” Kidman said. “A man directing this, it wouldn’t have been the same, because he can’t actually be in my body, but she can.”
The actress continued, “We share that form, and so we have the ability to communicate telepathically almost, with an understanding of what our bodies will do.