Kaya Scodelario exuded glamour as she graced the red carpet for the premiere of Babygirl during the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Friday.
The former Skins actress, 32, looked sensational as she wore a one shouldered, floor-length Giorgio Armani dress which was adorned with black sequins.
Showcasing her incredible physique in the figure-hugging garment, Kaya put her toned arms on display as she posed for the cameras and waved to fans.
Adding inches to her frame, the actress slipped into a pair of black open-toe heels and wore an array of silver jewellery for her choice of accessories.
The star – who made headlines last month after she was spotted with her ex-husband Benjamin Walker, five months after their split – wore her hair in loose waves.
Kaya Scodelario exuded glamour as she graced the red carpet for the premiere of ‘Babygirl’ during the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Friday
The former Skins actress, 32, looked sensational as she wore a one shouldered, floor-length dress which was adorned with black sequins
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Nicole Kidman stuns in a dramatic corset top at the Babygirl premiere during Venice Film Festival
Babygirl is an erotic thriller that stars Nicole Kidman. It sees Nicole star as a high-powered New York business executive who starts a risky affair with her much-younger intern.
The steamy movie will include some very intimate scenes including one of Nicole’s character masturbating after having sex with her husband, played by Antonio Banderas.
Earlier in the evening the n actress, 57, also stepped onto the red carpet for the film’s premiere and donned a show stopping outfit.
Nicole wore a dramatic nude corset top that cinched her in at her narrow waist and a black velvet skirt.
She finished her look with pearl drop earrings and black, suede heels, with Nicole’s features highlighted with a light and dewy make-up palette.
Nicole oozed confidence on the red carpet despite recently admitting she felt ‘vulnerable’ filming the intimate sex scenes, noting that she didn’t feel ‘brave’ enough to watch her own film.
The 81st Venice International Film Festival held on the Lido di Venezia is organised by La Biennale di Venezia and opened on 28 August with Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
The festival runs until 7 September and will see Sigourney Weaver receive the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award.
Showcasing her incredible physique in the figure-hugging garment, she put her toned arms on display as she posed for the cameras and waved to fans
Adding inches to her athletic frame, she slipped into a pair of black open-toe heels and wore an array of silver jewellery for her choice of accessories
The mum-of-two appeared in good spirits as she waved to fans at the Hotel Excelsior and squinted in the bright afternoon sun
The star – who made headlines last month after she was spotted with her ex-husband Benjamin Walker – wore her chocolate coloured hair in loose waves which she tucked behind one ear
Babygirl is an erotic thriller that stars Nicole Kidman as a a high-powered New York business executive who starts a risky affair with her much-younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson
Sigourney said ahead of receiving the prize: ‘I am truly honoured to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from La Biennale di Venezia.’
‘To be gifted this award is a privilege I share with all the filmmakers and collaborators I have worked with throughout the years. I proudly accept this award in celebration of all who have helped bring these films to life.’
As well as Kaya Scodelario cast there is an array of A-listers expected to descend in Venice over the coming days.
George Clooney is already in town, alongside his wife Amal, for the debut of his anticipated new movie Wolfs – the Jon Watts-directed heist thriller that reunites him with Oceans 11 co-star Brad Pitt.
Both George and Brad will be attendance at the September 1 screening.
Brad’s ex wife Angelina Jolie is also due in Venice to promote the film Maria, in which she plays opera legend Maria Callas.
Sources indicate that the schedules have been arranged so that the warring couple – who continue to be embroiled in legal action eight years after they split – will not be at the film festival at the same time.
Nicole Kidman made sure she also turned heads as she was spotted earlier in the evening at the BabyGirl premiere, which she stars in and donned a showstopping outfit
The actress, 57, stunned in a dramatic nude corset style top and a black velvet skirt as she walked the red carpet ahead of the films showing
Another major screening is Joker: Folie à Deux on September 4. The premiere of the sequel will welcome stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga to the Venice red carpet.
Daniel Craig will also be at the festival to promote his movie Queer, which screens on September 3.
Venice regulars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton are in town for Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door while Nicole Kidman is screening her erotic thriller Babygirl on August 30.
Pupi Avati’s The American Backyard will close the festival on September 7.
Babygirl review: Nicole Kidman sizzles in this tale of passion and power across the age divide, writes BRIAN VINER
Babygirl
Verdict: A sexy, post #MeToo thriller
One of the oddities of these post #MeToo years in Hollywood is that Lolita-style stories about older men falling for much younger women or even schoolgirls have practically disappeared – while the opposite dynamic is suddenly all the rage.
Hardly a month seems to pass without an older woman bedding a chap 25 years her junior, as if to right a century of cinematic wrongs.
Anyway, hot on the high heels of Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine getting it together in The Idea of You on Amazon Prime, and Nicole Kidman cavorting with Zac Efron in A Family Affair on Netflix, along comes Kidman again, entangled in more ways than one with 28-year-old British actor Harris Dickinson in the steamy psychosexual thriller Babygirl.
Here at the Venice Film Festival, air-conditioned cinemas are currently offering a blessed relief from hotter-than-usual weather. But last night’s world premiere of Babygirl brought a different kind of sizzle.
Nicole Kidman attends a red carpet for ‘Babygirl’ during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 30
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in a scene from ‘Babygirl’ which will be released in January
Antonio Banderas and Nicole Kidman in a scene from ‘Babygirl’
Kidman has described it as the most ‘exposing’ performance she has ever given – which, considering 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut, is quite a claim.
She plays Romy, a corporate hotshot who runs a thriving robotics company replacing warehouse staff with automatons, and making wise observations to her workforce such as ‘one-day shipping has dramatically upped the ante’.
On the face of it she is as serenely successful at home as she is at work. Her dishy theatre director husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas) seems only too delighted to cater to her somewhat vigorous sexual demands, and she to his. The family unit is completed by a couple of teenage daughters – not that Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn spends much time developing them. One of them is gay and the other likes dancing.
Still, Reijn has other matters to attend to, and gets down to them with arresting urgency. Filmmakers sometimes start their features with sound rather than pictures – a hubbub of people chatting, perhaps, or a lone dog barking in the street. Here, it’s Romy evidently in the throes of sexual ecstasy, although she needs to look at online porn to finish the job. ‘Exposing’ indeed.
Later, on her way to work, Romy is struck by the sight of a young man calming a dangerous dog. The young man turns out to be Samuel (Dickinson), one of a new batch of company interns, who are duly ushered in to pay homage to Romy in her swanky office. She instantly clocks his good looks and his swagger, and soon enough she finds that she cannot resist him.
But Babygirl is not just the story of an illicit office affair across the age divide. Far more interestingly, it is about power and workplace politics. Samuel senses that Romy, whose job is telling others what to do, has a kinky yearning to be the one jumping to orders. So the CEO and the intern switch roles; the boss becomes the bossed.
Kidman has described it as the most ‘exposing’ performance she has ever given – which, considering 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut, is quite a claim
It is a smart, sexy film, brilliantly and boldly acted by Kidman and Dickinson, with first-class support from Banderas, writes Brian Viner
That is far from the end of the affair. There are revelations and recriminations, ambitions thwarted, and hints that Romy’s sexual psychoses are somehow connected with a strange childhood spent in cults and communes.
There is also an ending that couldn’t possibly happen if this were a relationship between a male head honcho and a woman much lower on the corporate ladder. However, at the same time, I wonder if Heijn is being quite as counterintuitive as she thinks: this is still, for the most part, a story in which the man holds the cards.
Nevertheless, it is a smart, sexy film, brilliantly and boldly acted by Kidman and Dickinson, with first-class support from Banderas (who has spent most of his career being absolutely nobody’s idea of a cuckold).
As for the almost-unmentionable, the alleged cosmetic work that sometimes seems to have limited Kidman’s range of expressions from A only to about D, that is cleverly woven into the narrative. Romy is clearly the kind of woman who would make a friend of Botox.
On the subject of injections, for the rest of us here in Venice, after some so-so early films, Babygirl has given us just the shot of adrenaline we required.
Babygirl comes out in January