"Babygirl" star Harris Dickinson calls out 'deeply inappropriate' comments from female fans: 'Completely unacceptable' Raechal ShewfeltSeptember 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM 0 Niko Tavernise/A24 Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman in 'Babygirl' Harris Dickinson says that people continue to have an unexpected ...
- - "Babygirl" star Harris Dickinson calls out 'deeply inappropriate' comments from female fans: 'Completely unacceptable'
Raechal ShewfeltSeptember 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman in 'Babygirl'
Harris Dickinson says that people continue to have an unexpected reaction to last year's Babygirl, the steamy thriller in which he and Nicole Kidman play lovers.
"If I'm honest, there was a big part of that that I really didn't enjoy," he said Thursday on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast. "Speaking openly, I'm proud to be a part of that film and I'm proud to have worked on it and, you know, I love [director] Halina [Reijn] and working with Nicole was just the most exciting thing for me, but the way the internet, the fans reduced some of it was quite strange."
An example, he noted, is that "a lot of women say things to me that are deeply inappropriate. Like when I was doing that press and when we were doing Q&As and stuff. Afterwards, there were some situations that were completely unacceptable. You're expected to just laugh it off."
Dickinson "struggled" with the experience."I think it's okay to do this to male actors, weirdly," Dickinson, 29, said. "That's the problem. I think it's become okay and acceptable to do that with younger male actors."
The movie was championed by critics: the National Board of Review named it one of the best films of the year and Kidman received accolades from the Golden Globes and the Venice Film Festival. But not everyone sees it and treats it as art.
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Dickinson said that, on the plane ride over, someone had requested that he dance for her, a reference to something he does shirtless for the camera. The woman said something about the film, but added that she wouldn't be saying the rest.
"That's not okay," Dickinson said of the encounter. "I don't want to know about your sexual experience with this story."
To him, that kind of reaction makes the film less important than he thinks it to be.
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Harris Dickinson says 'Babygirl' promotion has not always been fun
"People could say, 'Oh, well, you did a film that you knew was going to be somewhat erotic.' And it's like, 'Yeah, but the film that we made and the approach that Halina spoke about, for me, it was something way more unique," the actor said. "It wasn't a reductive thing. In my mind, I saw it as one thing and then, I guess, you can't control the perception of it and the way that people want to talk about it and the narrative."
Back in November, ahead of the movie's Christmas release, Dickinson told Entertainment Weekly that he was already having these kind of experiences with fans.
"Someone came up to me off the street and said, 'Oh, can you say, 'Good girl?' I said, 'No, come on, man. Don't ask me to say that,' he recounted. "People need to look past the eroticism of it. It's a very nuanced film. It's so much about liberation and the consequences of too much constraint. It's important that that's what people are talking about as well."
Watch Dickinson's full Happy Sad Confused interview above.
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