Nicole Kidman says she wakes up crying and out of breath since her mother’s death

Winner of the Oscar for “The Hours” (2002) and with a great chance of winning the statuette again for the erotic film “Babygirl” (2024), — released in Brazil on January 9, 2025 — Nicole Kidman, 57, is in mourning. In September, the actress lost her mother, Janelle, at the age of 84, and recognizes that she has not dealt well with the loss of the family matriarch. “Waking up at 3am, crying and out of breath,” he revealed.

In an interview with the British edition of the magazine GQthe actress opened up about the delicate moment she is going through. She admits that she is more reflective. “I consider myself more open to emotions than before, especially now… Mortality. Connection. Life happening and hitting us,” she said. “The loss of parents, raising children, marriage and all the experiences that make you a fully conscious human being. I experience all those moments.”

Nicole also said in the interview that she avoids analyzing her own work and feels a little uncomfortable labeling the acting process as “method”. “I’m willing to go to any lengths to make it real and deep,” she says. Kidman repeats that “Babygirl” is the boldest film of her career.

“I’ve never shied away from sexuality on screen, never… [Reijn] I wanted to make a film about liberation, female pleasure. And I wanted to do that! I wanted to do that”, he points out, praising the fact that the direction was directed by a woman. “My skin changes color. I blush, I sweat, and [ela] He captures all of this because he understands and knows it.”

In the film, Nicole plays Romy, director of a powerful robotics company, who has a successful professional and family life. Despite this, she is not a sexually happy woman. Married for 19 years to a theater director, Jacob, played by Antonio Banderas, she has never managed to have a single orgasm with her husband, who she considers too conventional in bed.

Raised in a conservative environment, Romy never accepted her own erotic fantasies, which involve humiliation, submission and some violence. She feels guilty, abnormal and is ashamed to ask her husband to fulfill her desires. Therefore, he gives vent to his fantasies only through masturbatory practices. The situation changes when he meets Samuel, played by Harris Dickinson, from “The Sadness Triangle.” Flirty and petulant, the intern awakens his boss’s sexuality.

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