That the risqué moments were executed flawlessly. To create a more personal setting, the crew was scaled down in several of those sequences.
“There were moments when it seemed like everyone was on the same energy,” he said. Dickinson and Kidman saw that their characters’ growth was impacted by their innate connection.
Reijn promoted a fluid and changing screenplay that gave the performers the freedom to try out extended, unbroken takes that mirrored the ferocity of a theatrical performance.
Kidman clarified, “We practiced a lot just by talking.” “The script was evolving… Finding a natural flow between us, we would advise changes.
“The script was feeding back to Halina [the director] along the way,” Dickinson said. She would experiment with us, and we would modify it based on our intuition.