A ‘Babygirl’ Holiday with Harris Dickinson

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

To close out the holidays, our conversation with actor Harris Dickinson.

We discuss his latest role in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl (6:50), Nicole Kidman’s “disarming and generous” quality on set (9:27), and the exploration of masculinity in Harris’ roles— from Beach Rats (12:48) to Triangle of Sadness (13:03) to Babygirl (13:24). Then, we dive into the online discourse about his new performance (15:52), his upbringing in Walthamstow, England (17:10), and the early short films he made with his high school mates (20:20).

On the back-half, Harris unpacks his formative university years (24:45), his post-grad search for purpose, first in the military (30:20) then working at a hotel in east London (33:26), and the inspiration behind his forthcoming directorial debut (34:25). To close, we talk about the parallels between filming fight scenes (43:50) and intimate scenes (44:48) and the Charles Bukowski poem that keeps him creating (52:25).

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0:29.6	Lemonada. This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam Forgo,. Welcome to the show.
1:09.9	Today, I'm joined by actor Harris Dickinson.
1:14.3	At just 28 years old, Dickinson has quickly become one of the most fascinating performers we have. He emerged seemingly fully formed in Eliza Hitman's
1:21.0	beach rats, playing a young man from a seaside neighborhood of South Brooklyn, grappling with
1:26.8	his sexuality. I actually still remember
1:29.8	seeing the film at Sundance where it premiered and just being completely spellbound by both,
1:37.1	of course, the film, but Dickinson's work in it. That was back in 2017. In the seven years since, Dickinson has continued working with
1:46.6	distinctive filmmakers. Joanna Hogg in the souvenir, Part 2, Ruben Osslin in Triangle of Sadness,
1:53.7	Britt Marling in a murder at the end of the world, and Sean Durkin in the Iron Claw. His latest
1:59.4	project is no exception.
2:03.2	Written and directed by Helena Rain,
2:06.2	Baby Girl is a game of corporate cat and mouse between an intern played by Dickinson
2:08.5	and a high-powered CEO played by Nicole Kidman.
2:12.7	Here's a clip from the trailer.
2:16.5	It's now a good time to introduce the interns.
2:19.2	Yeah.
2:20.4	I chose you as my mentor.
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