Nikki Glaser makes risqué joke about Nicole Kidman's erotic thriller 'Babygirl' at Golden Globes

Nicole Kidman's nomination for her role in the steamy thriller 'Babygirl' made the film a perfect target for humor.

When Nikki Glaser hosted the 82nd Annual Golden Globes, aired on January 5 on CBS, the 40-year-old comedian didn’t shy away from delivering bold jokes.

With Nicole Kidman nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her performance in the erotic thriller Babygirl, the film became an easy target for humor.

*Babygirl* tells the story of Kidman’s character, Romy — a tech CEO — who becomes involved in a daring affair with her much younger intern, Samuel, played by 28-year-old Harris Dickinson.

“Nicole Kidman is here, oh my gosh. Nominated for ‘Baby Girl,’” Glaser said during her monologue. “Oh my gosh, I loved that movie. I gave it two fingers up.”

In a playful reference to Kidman’s husband, Keith Urban, Glaser joked, “Thank you to Keith Urban for playing the guitar so much that she wants to leave and make 18 movies a year. Keep strumming you kooky coola.”

Last month, Halina Reijn, the writer-director of Babygirl, discussed the age gap between the film’s stars and the inspiration behind the project.

Speaking with W Magazine, Reijn addressed the trend of May-December romances in contemporary films.

“If we see a movie where the male actor is the same age as the female actor, we find that odd. Which is insane,” Reijn, 49, stated. “It should completely be normalized that the age gaps switch and that women have different relationships.”

Reijn added, “We’re not trapped in a box anymore. We internalize the male gaze, we internalize patriarchy, and we need to free ourselves from it. It’s really hard.”

The director explained that Babygirl was created as a response to the erotic thrillers of the 1990s. She aimed to make the sex scenes feel both “hot and steamy” and authentic.

“Sexuality is stop-and-go. It’s never like a glamour scene from a Hollywood movie in the ’90s. That’s just not how it works,” Reijn explained.

In an interview with Interview Magazine, Reijn reflected on America’s often restrained approach to sex, noting, “I found so much fun in the fact that America to me has a kind of suppressed relationship towards sex, and I do too. I really relate to it. So America serves as a metaphor of my own struggles with this theme.”