Nicole Kidman’s most shocking sex scenes… as star is set to push the limit in erotic new film Babygirl

Nicole Kidman is no stranger to eyebrow-raising sex scenes, with the actress stripping off for a racy encounter during her breakout role in 1989’s Dead Calm.

But the Hollywood favorite, 57, is set to take things further than ever before in her ‘liberating’ new movie, Babygirl, opposite 28-year-old Harris Dickinson.

Kidman, who is married to country star Keith Urban, plays a high-powered married company boss who falls for a kinky young intern in the erotic film, for which she has already received critical acclaim.

Earlier this week she revealed intimate scenes with Dickinson and Antonio Banderas, 64, who plays her husband Jacob, often became so overwhelming that she had to ask for filming to pause as she had ‘orgasm burnout.’

Ahead of the movie’s Christmas Day release, DailyMail.com looks back at Kidman’s most boundary-pushing lovemaking scenes to date. 

Psychological thriller Dead Calm helped to put Kidman, 57, on the map in Hollywood and featured a tense sex scene alongside Billy Zane, 58,

Dead Calm (1989)

The high-seas psychological thriller helped put Kidman on the map in Hollywood thanks to her captivating performance as Rae Ingram.

She starred alongside Sam Neill as a bereaved couple who attempt to deal with their grief by taking a trip together on their yacht. 

The pair go on to pick up castaway Hughie Warriner, played by Billy Zane, and Kidman’s character is forced to use seduction to distract the very dangerous stranger.

Thanks in part to the risk of danger Kidman’s character faced, the scenes are remembered as some of the more steamy clinches shown on the big screen during the 1980s.

To Die For (1995)

Kidman showcased her ability to play a lustful, cunning leading lady in Gus Van Sant’s comedy-drama To Die For (pictured with Matt Dillon) 

It was the first of many roles as an older woman who gets intimate with a younger man (pictured with Joaquin Phoenix)

Kidman showcased her ability to play a lustful, cunning leading lady in Gus Van Sant’s comedy-drama. 

The actress won the Golden Globe and Critic’s Choice Movie Award for Best Actress thanks to her portrayal of Suzanne Stone, a small-town girl who dreams of becoming a famous TV personality while dealing with a less than happy marriage to husband Larry (Matt Dillon).

She enlists the help of three teenagers played by Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck and Alison Folland to help her with a documentary and other tasks.

The movie sees Kidman’s character getting frisky with her husband as well as some scenes in which she seduces her new young friends.

It was the first of many roles as an older woman who gets intimate with a younger man.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Kidman stripped naked in erotic movie Eyes Wide Shut alongside her then-husband Tom Cruise 

The famous flick all but cemented her spot as the queen of racy dramas as the pair filmed several intimate clinches throughout the movie

In 1999, Kidman stripped naked in erotic movie Eyes Wide Shut alongside her then-husband Tom Cruise.

The famous flick all but cemented her spot as the queen of racy dramas as the pair filmed several intimate clinches throughout the movie.

The married characters spend a great deal of time flirting, talking about sex, discussing cheating, and then ultimately doing both. 

Since the film’s release, Kidman has revealed that she negotiated with its legendary director Stanley Kubrick to ensure she was comfortable baring all on camera.

She said: ‘He was like, “I’m going to want full-frontal nudity”, and I was like, “Aah I don’t know”. So we came up with a great agreement, which was contractual. 

‘He would show me the scenes with the nudity before they made it into the film.’

Kidman continued: ‘Then I could feel completely safe. I didn’t say no to any of it. I’d wanted to make sure it wasn’t going to be me standing there nude and everyone laughing at me. I was protected.’

The Paperboy (2012)

The Paperboy was Kidman’s second age gap romance, this time with Zac Efron’s Jack Jansen 

However, her character was in love with John Cusack’s Hillary Van Wetter, an inmate who she eventually has sex with in the kitchen of their new home together

The Paperboy was Kidman’s second age gap romance, this time with Zac Efron’s Jack Jansen.

The film follows Miami reporter Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) who returns to his hometown in Florida to investigate a murder case involving death row inmate Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack).

Much is said about a beach trip scene in which Kidman’s Florida bombshell character Charlotte Bless ends up urinating on Jack after he is stung by a jellyfish.

However, her character was in love with Van Wetter – despite having never met him. 

The most talked about moment from the movie saw Kidman urinate on Efron

They strike up a romance on his release and have sex in the kitchen of their new home together, with Van Wetter taking a more dominant role.

Sharing her tips for filming such intense scenes, the actress revealed she allows male costars to be ‘rougher’ than they realize so as not to hinder their performance. 

In an 2015 article for Interview magazine, Kidman revealed she allowed her on-screen lover to throw her around ‘like a mop.’

‘I want him to feel free,’ she said. ‘Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

‘Without allowing him free rein over his character, the scene would not have been a success.

‘That’s why, if he’s a little rougher than he knows he’s being, the last thing I want to say is, “Oh my gosh, you hurt me.”‘

She continued: ‘Most actors are like that. We all go, “No, no. I’m fine. Don’t worry about it.” Because that’s how you release into things and find stuff. 

‘If you’re tentative and scared that you’re hurting someone or that you’re overstepping a line or that there’s a boundary that you’ve crossed, it makes everybody too cautious.’

Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)

Kidman starred alongside Clive Owen in a film about the real-life relationship between American author Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn

The movie featured surprisingly explicit sex scenes with the actors stripping off for a two-minute long encounter while bombs were exploding outside their window

That same year, Kidman starred alongside Clive Owen in a film about the real-life relationship between American author Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.

Kidman admitted that she had not read Ernest Hemingway and had never heard of Gellhorn, who had a combustible, erotically charged relationship with the famous writer to whom she was married to for five years. 

The movie featured surprisingly explicit sex scenes with the actors stripping off for a two minute long encounter in which they had passionate sex as bombs exploded outside their window.

Captured with lingering shots by director Phil Kaufman, the pair simply continue to have sex when dust and debris lands on top of them after their building is hit.

The sex scenes were so racy that even Kidman and Owen had to question whether it was necessary to tell the story.

Kidman explained to W magazine at the time: ‘The sexual attraction between them was powerful. I kept asking Phil Kaufman, the director, “Is all this sex important for the story?” 

‘I wanted to make sure he wasn’t just getting off. But these were two people who could make love when a building was falling down around them. They had passion.’

Owen added: ‘Sex scenes are only hard if there’s no narrative conveyed through the sex scene. In the Hemingway film, the sex scenes have a story going through them. It’s part of who these people are and what they are.’

Kidman also stated of the scene: ‘Maybe as I get older, and now having had a baby, it might be different, but I enjoy not letting my issues get in the way of a performance.

‘Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I’m not actually acting. Then it’s about me – and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.’

The Killing Of A Sacred Dear (2017) 

Kidman and costar Colin Farrell had already caused a stir in 2017 with their movie The Beguiled, before reuniting in The Killing of a Sacred Deer (pictured)

Kidman strips down to her underwear and pretends to be medically unconscious for her husband – who finds the bizarre situation sexually arousing

Kidman and co-star Colin Farrell had already caused a stir earlier in the year with their movie The Beguiled, which saw her give his wounded soldier a very sexually tense sponge bath.

They reunited for a very different kind of sex scene in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

The film sees Farrell playing a surgeon whose idyllic family life is upended when he takes a sinister teenage boy under his wing. 

Kidman strips down to her underwear for the disturbing scene where her character pretends to be medically unconscious for her husband – who finds the bizarre situation sexually arousing.

Big Little Lies (2017)

Kidman stripped off again for another round of unsettling sex scenes alongside her Big Little Lies co-star Alexander Skarsgård

Her character initially appeared to be turned on by shockingly violent episodes with her abusive husband which ultimately led to them having rough sex

In that same year, Kidman stripped off again for another round of unsettling sex scenes alongside her costar Alexander Skarsgård.

The Australian actress played Celeste, who appeared to be turned on by shockingly violent episodes with her abusive husband (Skarsgård) which ultimately led to them having rough sex.

At the time, Kidman was open about how hard she found it and said: ‘I felt very exposed and vulnerable and deeply humiliated at times. 

At the time, Kidman was open about how hard she found filming the intense scenes

‘I remember lying on the floor in the bathroom when we were doing the scenes in episode seven, and I wouldn’t get up between takes. 

‘I was just lying there, sort of broken and crying and I remember at one point [director Jean-Marc Vallée] coming over and just sort of placing a towel over me because I was just lying there in half-torn underwear and just basically on the ground with nothing on and I was just, like [gasps].’

The actress – who also co-produced the series – continued: ‘When I would go home, I would feel ashamed. And that’s the same emotions Celeste was having. But I was willing to do that because that’s what was important for the role… 

‘I would keep on a very brave face at work and then I would go home and I didn’t realize how much it had penetrated me. It affected me in a deep way.’

She said she would go home feeling ‘ashamed.’ 

A Family Affair (2024)

Kidman and Zac Efron reunited on screen in Netflix’s A Family Affair for another age-gap romance

In the film, Kidman has a steamy affair with her daughter’s movie star boss, played by Efron

Ahead of the release of Babygirl, Nicole Kidman has already portrayed two age-gap romances on screen.

She reunited with her Paperboy costar Efron in the Netflix romcom, A Family Affair.

Efron plays Chris Cole, a self-absorbed Hollywood star who starts dating Kidman’s Brooke Harwood, the mother of his assistant, Zara Ford, played by Joey King.

The steamy romance leads to serious feeling developing between the couple as Zara grapples with the fact that her mother is dating her boss.

The film saw the pair take part in one of the actress’ less scandalous scenes compared to their first time working together – which came to an abrupt halt when King’s characters accidently walks in on them in the act.

The Perfect Couple (2024)

Kidman recently stunned fans with her racy sex scene in Netflix series, The Perfect Couple

 She starred alongside Liev Schreiber, the ex-husband of her best friend Naomi Watts

Kidman recently stunned fans with her racy sex scene in The Perfect Couple alongside her best friend Naomi Watts’ ex-husband, Liev Schreiber.

Kidman and Schreiber, 56, play a married couple who become involved in a murder mystery. 

The couple get intimate in one racy scene, during which they are seen in a passionate clinch by a window. 

During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Schreiber was heard asking Kidman if it was true that she sought his ex-wife’s permission to play his on-screen spouse.

When Kidman confirmed that it was true, Schreiber made it clear he was impressed by the respect between the two friends.

‘Isn’t that amazing?’ he said to the interviewer. ‘That’s how close they are.’

Babygirl (2024)

Kidman’s new movie follows her character Romy, a powerful CEO who puts her career and life’s work in danger when she begins an affair with her young intern, played by Harris Dickinson

The trailer hints at how Kidman’s character becomes increasingly ‘liberated’ by the steamy liaisons

Kidman’s highly-anticipated new movie follows her powerful CEO character, Romy,  who puts her career and life’s work in danger when she begins an intense affair with her young intern Samuel, played by Harris Dickinson.

Director Halina Reijn was inspired by Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas’ sexual thriller Basic Instinct and by hearing about a woman who had never experienced sexual pleasure during her 25-year marriage.

The trailer hints at how Kidman’s character becomes increasingly ‘liberated’ by the steamy liaisons and the actress said she was attracted to the project because it was ‘an area [she’d] never been’ throughout her career. 

Director Halina Reijn was inspired by the sexual thriller Basic Instinct

Opening up about filming the sex scenes, Kidman said: ‘There was an enormous amount of sharing and trust and then frustration. It’s like, “Don’t touch me”.  

‘There were times when we were shooting where I was like, “I don’t want to orgasm any more”.

‘Don’t come near me. I hate doing this. I don’t care if I am never touched again in my life! I’m over it.

‘It was so present all the time for me that it was almost like a burnout.’ 

Dickinson praised his costar for being ‘the most comforting, warm performer to work across from.’

‘She sets the tone on set, and she makes it so easy to be vulnerable and to be funny, because she is so daring,’ he continued. ‘She’s so brave, and she does stuff, and you’re like, “What the f**k is that?” You can’t even think of it.’

Babygirl is released on December 25, 2024 in the United States, and January 10, 2025 in the United Kingdom