Nicole Kidman acquired the rights to INXS’ Never Tear Us Apart for Babygirl

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Nicole Kidman used his connections to set up a key scene in his new erotic thriller, the baby.

According to the director Halina ReijnThe Oscar winner, 57, was instrumental in securing the rights to the INXS song “Never Tear Us Apart” for a montage scene in the new film.

“We put it together. I almost cried. My editor and I were screaming at each other,” Reijn explained in an interview “ReelBlend Podcast” December 27, Friday. “The next day, I called A24 (film studio) and said: ‘OK, we have to get the rights to this song.’ They said no. They said it was a hard no. And I didn’t sleep for a week. I tried every other song I could think of. Nothing worked.’

Reijn then reached out to his lead actor, who managed to pull some strings.

“And then I called her Nicole because we were so close. “I’m so depressed,” I said. And he said, ‘Give me a couple of days.’ And he did,” Reijn said. “He got the rights. He reached out to real people and he did it for us. Amazing.”

In the babyKidman plays a high-powered CEO who begins a steamy relationship with a young intern she plays. Harris Dickinson.

Recently the director of the film He defended the age range of 29 years between its two stars. (Dickinson is 28.)

in an interview in the magazine On Wednesday, December 25th, Reijn was asked about adding an older woman and a younger man (including Kidman) to the pantheon of romantic movies released this year. Family Affair and has Anne Hathaway-protagonist Your Idea).

“If we see a movie where the male actor is the same age as the female actor, it seems strange to us. Everything is crazy. It should be completely normalized that the age ranges change and that women have different relationships,” said Reijn. “We are no longer trapped in a box. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize the patriarchy, and we have to break free from that. It’s very hard.”

in an interview The Hollywood Reporter published earlier this month, Kidman recalled impressed by an initial review of the baby.

“I think this film is a very good release. I hope so,” he said. “I’ve had some people say it’s the most disturbing movie they’ve ever seen, which is, ‘Oh, no, I’m so sorry.'”

For her part, Kidman relished the opportunity to play an older woman who embraced her sensual side.

“Women are often dismissed as sexual beings at a certain point in their careers. So it was really beautiful to see him like that,” said the Oscar winner THR. “From the moment I read it, I said: ‘Yes, it’s a voice I haven’t seen, it’s a place I haven’t been, I don’t think there have been audiences’.” My character has reached a level where he has all this power, but he’s not sure who he is, what he wants, what he wants, even though he seems to have it all. And I think that’s really relatable.”