"Cementing her status as Hollywood's boldest actress, Nicole Kidman bares herself every which way – physically, emotionally and artistically – in 'Babygirl'", Halina Reijn's erotic thriller about a kinky workplace affair, said Tom Shone in The Sunday Times.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with the Venice Film Festival-premiering Babygirl, A24 ’s erotic thriller from writer-director Halina Reijn that stars Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. It hit theaters December 20.

"A man directing this, it wouldn’t have been the same, because he can’t actually be in my body, but she can," she says of Halina Reijn

Nicole Kidman was grateful to join her erotic thriller Babygirl in the early stages and help shape what it became. The Australian actress read one of the first drafts of the script for Dutch director Halina Reijn's thriller and immediately agreed to play Romy Mathis,