Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson talk to Melissa Nathoo about how they made each other feel filming Babygirl, plus what they found weird to shoot. And they discuss their star signs. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The annoying thing about being a Cancer is that everyone just goes, oh, it's just emotional.
00:03You were very lovely and supportive to me.
00:05Thank you, Nicole. That could have been bad. It could have been much harder.
00:11This is a steamy little number and I loved it.
00:14Maybe because I can relate to the young man thing.
00:17Please, spill the tea on that.
00:19Elaborate.
00:20Probably shouldn't because my mum will probably watch this and no one needs to hear all these
00:24details. But I'm curious though, was there anything when you were doing this that you did
00:30find weird or uncomfortable to start off with? Because listen, when you like someone,
00:36we've all done the thing where you like, you smell their clothes and it reminds you of them.
00:39But I'd never have put like an item of clothes in my mouth, like a tie or something like that.
00:44So I'm just curious, did you find anything particularly weird or weird?
00:48I mean, the whole way in which it was presented to us by Helena Raine was
00:55that she wanted to make a film that was really sort of about a woman who was going through
01:04an existential crisis and the way in which her sexuality and her job and all the roles she plays.
01:13And I think that that was the thrust of the piece.
01:16It wasn't so much the sexuality of it.
01:18It feels like the sexuality or the sex is like a mechanism to display
01:24the consequence of a lack of liberation, right? Or lack of freedom, I don't know.
01:29Yeah. And it's a discovery. The film is meant to be fun, obviously,
01:33but it's meant to have weight to it as well.
01:37So that's why you guys are the actors, because I think I'd be too in my head. I'd be like,
01:41I can't do this.
01:42That is why you were doing it?
01:44Of course not.
01:46I'm curious, because your character, Harris, is so good at obviously reading Romy from the start,
01:53how good are you guys when you meet someone? Like, first off,
01:56are you good at reading them from the get go?
01:58Yeah, I have a pretty good intuition and an instinct in terms of where I want to be
02:04and the people I like. And this film, I mean, so many times I choose things based on that.
02:11So I want to be with people that I'm going to enjoy so that it's not...
02:18It has to be a place that you want to go and you want to be with these people.
02:23I've got better at it as I've got older, like knowing what people like.
02:26What judging people.
02:26Yeah, but I feel like he's so young and I'm like, wow, he's so good at that.
02:31What about you, Harris? Are you good at judging?
02:33I like to think I am, but people can often be deceptive, can't they? It's hard to know sometimes.
02:39I feel like you think you've got an idea of someone, but I don't think Samuel really knows.
02:43I think Samuel just kind of goes, he sees Romy as a pure person separate from all of the
02:53constructed things around her, maybe all of the power around her.
02:56And maybe that's what ignites the initial thing between us. But I don't know,
03:02we got along very quickly, which was easier for the film.
03:07That could have been bad, it could have been much harder, but it was easy, I found it.
03:14You were very lovely and supportive to me.
03:16You were very lovely and supportive to me.
03:18Thank you, Nicole.
03:19I just thought you'd like to know.
03:21It's so important, because it comes across when we're watching it.
03:25You can see that you guys were just like, it works.
03:28And it's so important. As an actor, you don't have an enormous amount of control.
03:33You're showing up and you're giving, you're the giver. And the director's the taker.
03:40I'm curious, how do you react when someone asks you what your star sign is?
03:44Because she does lying there, and he's like, not into it.
03:48Are you into it?
03:50Are you into it?
03:50You answer first.
03:53I'll take the info, and if I don't like it, I'll discard it.
03:56But I'll hold on to the parts that I like.
03:59I'd never choose a relationship based on star signs, put it that way.
04:03I've got friends that would not date someone.
04:05Really?
04:05Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:06Oh, wow.
04:06They're like, really?
04:07Golly.
04:08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:09Okay.
04:09Which is not good, I don't think. I don't think it's good to rule out.
04:13What are you?
04:14What's your star sign?
04:15I'm a Cancer.
04:16But the annoying thing about being a Cancer is that everyone just goes, oh, she's emotional.
04:20It's like, well, there's probably more to it than that. Let's not just say, you know.
04:24I wish I knew.
04:25What are you?
04:26I'm Gemini, but on the cusp of Cancer.
04:28There you go.
04:28So I can kind of...
04:30Yeah, I wish I was one of those girls...
04:30Where do I feel like going?
04:32Who could sit here and be like, oh, I know exactly what that means, but I'm not.
04:34What are you?
04:35I'm an Aries.
04:36Yeah.
04:36So I'm fiery and stubborn, apparently.
04:38But that couldn't be the least...
04:39Wow, Aries.
04:40What I'm not.
04:42See?
04:43Exactly.
04:43Wow, yeah, that makes a lot of sense now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two minutes and I'm here.
04:47Yeah.
04:48I have no idea.
04:48Explain to the younger man, maybe.
04:52Guys, so lovely to meet you. Good luck with the film.
04:55My pleasure.
04:56Thank you so much.
04:57Bye.