Steamy first look at Nicole Kidman’s age-gap erotic drama Babygirl

Kidman plays a high-powered CEO embarking on a twisted affair with a much younger man in this buzzed-about new film.

The first full-length trailer for Nicole Kidman’s much-talked-about next film Babygirl has been released today.

The erotic drama features Kidman as Romy, a married, high-powered CEO who embarks on an illicit affair with Samuel, a much younger, junior worker at her company (Harris Dickinson).

There’s a clear imbalance of power there, yet as the trailer reveals, behind closed doors, it’s Samuel who dominates Romy in a relationship that appears to border on S&M.

Nicole Kidman’s new film is already a hit with critics.

“You’re very young, I don’t want to hurt you,” Romy tells Samuel in one tense scene shown in the trailer.

“Hurt me?” he asks. “I think I have power over you. Because I could make one call and you could lose everything. Does that turn you on when I say that?”

Kidman won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for the role.

Her character falls hard for Dickinson’s younger man, Samuel.

The film sees Kidman, 57, share plenty of steamy love scenes with her 28-year-old co-star.

Kidman spoke about the film’s extreme scenes in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, saying: “I’ve made some films that are pretty exposing, but not like this.”

“At some point I was like, ‘I don’t want to be touched. I don’t want to do this anymore, but at the same time I was compelled to do it’,” she continued.

“Halina [Reijn, the director of Babygirl] would hold me and I would hold her, because it was just very confronting to me… It’s like, ‘Golly, I’m doing this, and it’s actually now going to be seen by the world’. That’s a very weird feeling. This is something you do and hide in your home videos.”

“I’ve made some films that are pretty exposing, but not like this.”

Of course, Kidman only just starred in another movie about a secret age gap romance: Netflix’s A Family Affair, in which her character fell for a charismatic but self-centred young actor played by Zac Efron and they struggled to keep their relationship out of the public eye.

That rom-com was met with middling reviews, but early buzz for Babygirl suggests it’s going to be receive a lot more acclaim: Kidman has already won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for the role.

Kidman in Babygirl …

… and with Zac Efron in A Family Affair, released on Netflix in June.

In a tragic turn of events, the Aussie actress had to leave the Venice Film Festival early and return to her hometown of Sydney upon learning of the death of her mother Janelle at the age of 84.

Director Halina Reijn accepted the award on Kidman’s behalf, before sharing a statement from the actress with the crowd.

Family tragedy prevented Kidman from celebrating her Venice Film Festival win in person.

“Today, I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after my brave and beautiful mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, had just passed,” Kidman wrote.

“I’m in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her.

“She shaped me, she guided me and she made me. I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you through Halina. The collision of life and art is heartbreaking. My heart is broken.”

Babygirl will be released in cinemas on Christmas Day, with an Australian release expected to follow soon after.