Nicole Kidman Undone
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NICOLE KIDMAN UNDONE
Nicole Kidman’s filmography is awash with romances with younger men.
A Family Affair, which just premiered on Netflix, is her most recent.
Kidman plays a decorated writer in the throws of a creative blockage whose passions are re-awakened upon a surprise romantic encounter with her daughter's boss (Zac Efron).
While this current film is lighter, her most compelling on-screen romantic roles feature dark fantasies with younger men.
In Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Kidman is married to Tom Cruise but finds herself undone by her desire to sleep with a young naval officer with whom she shared a single glance.
In To Die For (1995), she strikes up a sexual relationship with a young Joaquin Phoenix in order to manipulate him for a crime.
And in Birth (2004), Kidman develops a deep-rooted attraction to a ten-year-old boy who claims to be her dead husband, and the two share a bath.
Kidman stated: