Nicole Kidman Chugs Milk Whereas Accepting Award for ‘Babygirl’

Nicole Kidman is paying homage to her Babygirl character. 

Whereas accepting the award for greatest actress on the Nationwide Board of Evaluate Gala in New York Metropolis Tuesday, Jan. 7, the actress, 57, included a steamy scene from the A24 erotic thriller into her acceptance speech. 

“I’m going to boost a glass of milk to the entire child ladies within the room,” she mentioned whereas lifting the beverage excessive above her head on the podium.

Cheers erupted within the room as Kidman sipped from the glass, guzzling your entire contents on the cup in mere seconds.

“Good woman,” she mentioned with a smile earlier than blowing a kiss as she walked off from the stage. 

Kidman’s milk second referenced a scene in Babygirl when her character Romy, a CEO and “good” spouse and mom, accepts a tall glass of milk from Samuel (performed by Harris Dickinson), the intern she is starting to have a torrid affair with, as she sits at a bar with mates and coworkers. 

Startled at first by the glass’ arrival, Romy then drinks each final drop of the milk, whereas making direct eye contact with the a lot youthful man, who’s gathered with mates of his personal throughout the room.

The pair alternate intense seems to be as she finishes the beverage and wipes her mouth.

Later, as each teams have cleared out of the venue, Samuel walks previous and whispers into her ear: “Good woman.”

Based on Babygirl’s director, author and co-producer Halina Reijn, the scene was impressed by an precise occasion in her life. 

“It occurred to me,” Reijn, 49, just lately instructed IndieWire.  

Reijn, who can be an actress, recalled a time when she’d simply completed a manufacturing and wished to have a good time however all of her mates had been being “boring,” so she went out alone.

“I went to a bar, and I ordered one thing boring like a Eating regimen Coke as a result of I didn’t drink at the moment as a result of I used to be a management freak. There was this younger Belgian actor — I can’t say who it’s — however he was well-known. I knew of him. I’d by no means spoken to him. He was at the very least 15 years youthful than I, and he ordered me a glass of milk,” she mentioned within the Dec. 28 interview.

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“I believed it was an unbelievable, scorching factor to do, and so brave, and so I wished to reward him by ingesting the entire thing, and I did. It did make me somewhat nauseated, to be trustworthy with you, as a result of it was cow milk. It was again within the day,” Reijn added, calling it “one of the crucial arousing moments of my life.”

Talking completely to PEOPLE on the pink carpet on the 2024 Gotham Awards on Dec. 2, Kidman mentioned Babygirl viewers may need to watch the movie “alone.”

Babygirl is now in theaters.