When talking erotic thrillers, Nicole Kidman’s name isn’t the first name that springs to mind. But more than any other, it is perhaps the genre that has borne Kidman aloft – and, I would argue, to which she’s given the most.
It was in Dead Calm, holding her own against a psychotic Billy Zane, that a 30-year-old Kidman caught the eye of Tom Cruise, who ushered her into the Hollywood fold. A decade later, her on-screen pairing with Cruise in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut would be the stuff of fervent anticipation. And now, as a pussy-bowed tech CEO with a submissive kink in Babygirl, Kidman has again bottled some heady bit of the zeitgeist.
