This movie is absolutely a love story...

BABYGIRL STARS NICOLE KIDMAN, HARRIS DICKINSON AND FILM-MAKER HALINA REIJN, TALK TO YOLANTHE FAWEHINMI ABOUT THEIR NEW BIG-SCREEN EROTIC THRILLER

- YOLANTHE FAWEHINMI

NICOLE KIDMAN is no stranger to movies with sexual themes, but Babygirl was a different prospect entirely, the Academy Award winner reveals.

"I've made many sexual films, but this is different," says Nicole, 57, star of movies such as Eyes Wide Shut, The Hours and Moulin Rouge!.

"Doing this subject matter in the hands of the woman that wrote the script, who is directing it and is a really great actress herself - we became one in a weird way, which I'd never had with a director before.

"When you're working with a woman on this subject matter, you can share everything with each other."

The erotic thriller, written by Bodies, Bodies, Bodies film-maker Halina Reijn, 49, introduces us to Romy (Nicole), a polished CEO, mother and wife living in New York City, who exists in a world of careful control, tight scheduling, and possesses an all-too-keen awareness of how she's perceived at the heights of a male-dominated field.

She has been married for almost 20 years to her sweet, caring, and artistically driven playwright husband, Jacob, played by Cannes Film Festival Award-winning Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, 64, known for movies including Desperado, The Mask of Zorro and as the voice of Puss in Boots in the Shrek films.

But we learn in the first frames of Babygirl that Romy has never been fulfilled by her husband sexually. She hankers after something more in the bedroom, dark desires that she struggles to convey.