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Words by Daisy Hall [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/BABYGIRL-270824-BG_09848-Enhanced-5-V2.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”BABYGIRL 270824 BG_09848-Enhanced-5-V2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”107px” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019ve made some films that are pretty exposing, but not like this,\u2019 Nicole Kidman has said of her upcoming film, Babygirl. \u2018This is something you do and hide in your home videos. It is not a thing that normally is going to be seen by the world,\u2019 she told Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n Billed as an erotic thriller, Babygirl \u2013 which is premiering at Venice Film Festival and releasing in cinemas this December \u2013 explores the complexities of power dynamics and sexuality in the workplace. It tells the story of a married, high-ranking executive Romy (played by Kidman) as she embarks on a BDSM-fuelled affair with a younger male intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson).<\/p>\n The film\u2019s director, writer and producer Halina Reijn has said: \u2018I know we accomplished one thing, and that is that we made a really hot movie. I don\u2019t know about good, bad \u2014 that\u2019s up to everybody \u2014 but I\u2019m sure of that.\u2019<\/p>\n Babygirl may be confronting for some viewers, not just because of the dark turns that the script takes. Rarely do we see midlife women in explicit sex scenes like this. In one scene in Babygirl Romy masturbates alone, after having sex with her husband.<\/p>\n Now, however, we appear to be moving into a whole new era of filmmaking that\u2019s putting middle-aged women and their sexual desires front and centre. And we love to see it. This year has heralded a wave of age-gap relationships portrayed in Hollywood films \u2013 this time between older women and younger men. Because it turns out that women over 40 still have sex and still enjoy having sex. Who would have thought?<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Indeed, Babygirl isn\u2019t Kidman\u2019s only film of 2024 that sees her play a woman in an age-gap relationship. In A Family Affair, Nicole played a widowed writer who begins a relationship with a younger actor (played by Zac Efron).<\/p>\n Kidman said of the Netflix comedy film: \u2018There just hasn\u2019t been enough stories [like this]. The nature of the world and the way that it\u2019s been\u2026 it\u2019s always been older men and younger women and that needs to be demystified.<\/p>\n \u2018Having a female write this, and now having more stories and all the work we\u2019ve done for a decade just to get all the different stories out there, be they comedies, be they dramas\u2026 just with that perspective of women, without the judgment behind it.\u2019<\/p>\n Earlier this year we also witnessed something of a renaissance for Anne Hathaway who played the lead in The Idea of You. The plot of the romantic comedy chronicled the love affair between a single mother (Hathaway) and the young lead singer of a popular boy band (Nicholas Galitzine).<\/p>\n Speaking about the film and why she was excited to take on such a role, Hathaway \u2013 who also served as executive producer \u2013 shared, \u2018It\u2019s part of a cultural conversation about the way we feel entitled to criticise women.\u2019 In the same interview with USA Today, Galitzine added, \u2018The age becomes almost insignificant in a way because they have such a chemistry.\u2019<\/p>\n Discussing the film\u2019s sex scenes, Hathaway said: \u2018In the book, author Robinne Lee describes intimate acts with the most unbelievable energy. In their first physical sexual connection, Hayes brings Sol\u00e8ne to orgasm while clothed. That became our North Star in terms of expressing cinematic sex in a way that makes it about her pleasure, while also making the point that a huge part of pleasure is giving someone else pleasure.\u2019<\/p>\n Just this week it was announced that Olivia Wilde \u2013 herself previously in an age-gap relationship with Harry Styles, ten years her junior \u2013 is set to star in Gregg Araki\u2019s upcoming thriller I Want Your Sex alongside Cooper Hoffman. Hoffman, 21, will play Elliot who becomes the \u2018sexual muse\u2019 of renowned artist Erika (Wilde), as the movie explores themes of desire, domination and fantasy.<\/p>\n Hollywood is finally allowing midlife female characters to embrace their sexuality. 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<\/strong><\/p>\n‘it\u2019s always been older men and younger women and that needs to be demystified.’<\/h2>\n