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Nicole Kidman was anything but a complete stranger on set Baby girlsaid her co-star Harris Dickinson.

In fact, the actor, who plays a young intern embroiled in a torrid affair with the Oscar winner’s CEO character, believes Nicole is “the most reassuring and warm performer to work opposite” during their intimate scenes together turned.

“She sets the tone on set and makes it so easy to be vulnerable and funny because she’s so brave,” Harris said diversity in an interview published on October 23rd. “She’s so brave and she does things and you’re like, ‘What the hell is that?’ You can’t even think about that.

He continued: “She just has this innate sense of playfulness. And when you have that on set, everything is so easy.”

Harris added that their sex scenes weren’t very nerve-wracking because they also worked with an intimacy coordinator before filming to “set the parameters of what we were both comfortable with.”

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“The intimacy coordinator asks, ‘What are you comfortable with, what do you want as a director, what do you want to execute from that vision?'” he explained. “They enable that and do it very carefully without interrupting the actual scene.”

As for Nicole? She leaned on the director Halina Reijn as well as.

“The nature of this film was that it was either completely vulnerable and exposed, or you were protected and then the thing had no connection,” she noted diversity. “When I met with Halina and we talked about it, I was like, ‘Just give us a safe space,’ and then, ‘Please don’t make me look like an idiot.'”

But it wasn’t Nicole’s first experience with an erotic thriller. She already worked with the director in 1999 Stanley Kubrick To Eyes wide closedin which Nicole’s then husband starred Tom Cruise.

“There is something special about being a woman in this equation,” she told the Los Angeles Times in July. “And Stanley liked women. He had a different relationship with Tom. They worked more closely together on his character.”

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