Before he bossed her about and fed her dog biscuits, Harris Dickinson didn’t know much about Nicole Kidman. He knew her films, of course, but Kidman herself – the woman behind all that cryptic, porcelain, slightly alien elegance – seemed a bit removed on the set of their BDSM drama Babygirl. “We didn’t talk a load,” Dickinson says, lying prone across a hotel-room sofa. “We talked a lot about the characters we were playing. We didn’t talk about our personal lives, or our feelings.”
He and Kidman are close now, but it was (almost) all business while making Babygirl, a frisky, funny plunge into erotic chaos and sub-dom mechanics that’s now in cinemas. She had to play the perma-Botoxed tech CEO who can’t climax with her husband; he had to play the smirking intern who, like a randy telepath, senses in her a desperate urge to be treated like a very naughty girl who needs a good spanking. And it was hard!
