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Nicole Kidman won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Babygirl, continuing a tradition of Venice recognition that has followed several of her most daring career choices and adding to a body of festival-awarded work that spans three decades of adventurous filmmaking decisions.
Director Halina Reijn wrote the screenplay specifically for Kidman after the two had collaborated on Bodies Bodies Bodies, and the project took nearly four years to develop before it received a green light — in part because the material required a star of sufficient stature and willingness to carry it without sanitizing its more provocative dimensions.
Harris Dickinson, who plays the young intern Samuel, prepared for the role by studying the psychology of submission and dominance through academic literature rather than popular media, an approach that gives his performance an unusual intellectual precision beneath its surface confidence and distinguishes it sharply from any conventional portrayal of the seductive younger man.
Babygirl is a bold, unflinching erotic thriller from Dutch director Halina Reijn that places desire, power, and professional identity in direct and provocative conflict. Nicole Kidman stars as Romy, a high-powered Manhattan CEO whose outwardly perfect life conceals a profound disconnection from her own desires. When a young intern named Samuel, played with electric control by Harris Dickinson, correctly intuits what Romy truly wants and offers it to her in the most unexpected terms, she enters an affair that puts everything she has built at risk. Antonio Banderas co-stars as Romy's husband, a theater director whose trust she is simultaneously deceiving and protecting.
Kidman gives one of the rawest, most committed performances of her career — physically and emotionally exposed in ways that make Babygirl feel genuinely transgressive rather than merely provocative. Reijn approaches the material with the moral seriousness of a European art film while maintaining the propulsive tension of a classical thriller. The film asks serious questions about how desire and agency intersect for women in positions of power, and refuses to answer them in ways that are either condemnatory or triumphant.
Babygirl premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where Kidman won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress — adding another prestigious honor to a career already defined by risk-taking. The film generated significant cultural conversation about its subject matter, with critics praising its refusal to sentimentalize its protagonist while celebrating it as a rare studio film willing to take genuine adult risks. It streams on Max.
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