In Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut, Nicole Kidman's character Alice tells her husband William (Tom Cruise) about a sexual fantasy she has involving a man she saw while the two were on vacation. This sends William on the spiraling journey we see in that film.
In her latest film, Babygirl, however writer-director Halina Reijn wanted to flip the script. She asked herself, as told to EW, "'What if [Alice] would've gone and actually would've lived her fantasy?' That's what this is — my answer, playfully and humbly, to the male Eyes Wide Shut."
