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Nicole Kidman was going about her morning routine, focusing on getting her daughter off to school on Monday, when another, surprisingly, routine moment happened — she learned, for the 17th time, that she’d been nominated for a Golden Globe for acting. 

“I grew up on all of those Adrian Lyne films and [Paul] Verhoeven films,” Kidman said. “They were huge films when we were growing up. And so to have [writer-director Halina Reijn] then write something in that genre — but subvert it and also make it very, very female — it was exciting.” 

It’s a dream role for an actor in Kidman’s position. At 57, she’s still in high demand and can be seen nearly everywhere this year — streaming her performance in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple, in the spy thriller series Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+ and in the Prime Video series, Expats. It’s Babygirl, however, that allows Kidman to drill down into a rarely convened character whose complexity is vital and takes a central role in the narrative. 

“I’m in every frame of the movie,” Kidman said. “So if Romy doesn’t work, the film doesn’t work, but the complexity and the layers and the humanness of the film as well is what I found exciting. Because it’s deeply human.”

Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge that also owns The Hollywood Reporter.