A24 and filmmaker Halina Reijn heard our prayers: please, extra from the “Babygirl” and “Intuition” author and director!
The leisure shingle and the Dutch filmmaker/actress introduced right now that they’re reteaming for Reijn’s fourth characteristic, “Please,” which can even characteristic the performing debut of Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Gracie Abrams.
Whereas particulars are slim (right now’s official press launch merely famous that “particulars stay underneath wraps”), we do know that Reijn will write, direct, and produce the characteristic, and its starring position shall be Abrams’ first flip in entrance of the digital camera. David Hinojosa can even produce, re-teaming with Reijn for the third time. Zach Nutman will government produce.
Ultimately yr’s Golden Globes, Reijn hinted to IndieWire what she was engaged on subsequent. On the time, Selection reported that Reijn was engaged on the script for her subsequent mission and, whereas on the crimson carpet on the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Awards, instructed A24 could also be concerned as soon as once more.
“I’m obsessive about them. I really feel they’re like a cult. You may’t simply get out of it,” Reijn instructed IndieWire whereas on the 2025 Golden Globes crimson carpet. In teasing particulars for the mission, she added, “I feel it’s going to be actually completely different. I like to enter themes of violence, masculinity.”
In chatting with IndieWire about her Nicole Kidman-starring “Babygirl,” Reijn was open about her method to onscreen intercourse and sexuality. Whereas it’s not but identified if “Please” will deal with related themes as each “Babygirl” and her debut “Intuition,” they appear to be the concepts that compel her essentially the most. As an actress herself, Reijn brings actual expertise to the set that we count on shall be useful for Abrams. (And, no, Abrams, the daughter of filmmaker J.J. Abrams and producer Katie McGrath, is not any stranger to movie units.)
“I’ve been an actress, so I’ve skilled numerous males sitting in excessive chairs with North Face jackets, consuming pizzas whereas I used to be crawling round like a turtle on my again. And I hated that feeling,” she instructed IndieWire in 2024. “I assumed, ‘What the fuck are you doing in that chair?’ I’d really feel, generally, the enjoyment of that energy, and them saying — that is all earlier than #MeToo — ‘simply strive one thing,’ the place there wasn’t [anything] even on paper or within the choreography, nothing. What’s so scary about that’s you don’t know what the boundaries of your scene associate are… it’s extremely traumatizing. I’m obsessive about intimacy coordinators. I’m in love with them, not solely on set however what they’ll do together with your writing. In case you use them in the correct approach, they’re simply as helpful as a stunt coordinator and simply as essential. I want I had one as an actress, however sadly, they have been nowhere to be seen.”
A24 beforehand launched Reijn’s “Babygirl” and “Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies” and later picked up her debut movie, “Intuition.”
