Keith Urban was unsupportive of Nicole Kidman as she promoted her sexually explicit movie, \u201cBabygirl\u201d last year, multiple sources told Page Six.<\/p>\n
Kidman filed for divorce <\/a>earlier this week, while Urban had already taken off his wedding ring when he performed on stage <\/a>in Hershey, PA, Thursday night.<\/p>\n In 2024, the country crooner failed to join his wife at the Venice Film Festival <\/a>as she debuted the film in August and again when it opened at the Toronto Film Festival that September.<\/p>\n Sources said that Keith Urban did not like Nicole Kidman\u2019s movie, \u201cBabygirl,\u201d which she premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 with co-stars Antonio Banderas (left) and Harris Dickinson. WireImage<\/p>\n Kidman played a CEO who has an affair with an intern because she\u2019s dissatisfied with her sex life. Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n In the movie, Kidman, 58, is a high-powered CEO who launches into an affair with her handsome intern, played by Harris Dickinson, 29, while dissatisfied with her sex life with her husband, played by Antonio Banderas, 65.<\/p>\n \u201cKeith didn\u2019t like the film and he didn\u2019t even like Nicole promoting the movie,\u201d said a Hollywood insider.<\/p>\n Urban reportedly did not even want Kidman promoting the film. Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Another source alleged that the 57-year-old Urban feared that he would be mocked because of the film\u2019s subject.<\/p>\n Indeed, on July 1, the singer appeared to end an interview<\/a> on Australia\u2019s Mix 102.3 \u201cHayley & Max in the Morning\u201d when he was quizzed about his wife\u2019s starring roles with young men.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat does Keith Urban think when he sees his beautiful wife with beautiful younger men like Zac Efron having these beautiful love scenes on TV and radio?\u201d host Max Burford asked.\u201dI\u00a0think his team hung up on us because they didn\u2019t want us to ask that question,\u201d the producer added. \u201cHe\u2019s gone, see you Keith.\u201d<\/p>\n Kidman filed for divorce from Urban this week. The pair share two daughters, Sunday Rose (from left) and Faith Margaret. They\u2019re seen with Kidman\u2019s niece, Sybella Hawley. FilmMagic<\/p>\n His co-host Hayley Pearson said she believed they \u201cupset\u201d Urban because he \u201cdoesn\u2019t like the personal stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n A source, however, later told People that Urban didn\u2019t leave the call.<\/p>\n Urban has never appeared to have any issues with his wife\u2019s projects before this. Urban was back on stage Thursday night in Hershey, PA \u2014 without his wedding ring. BACKGRID<\/p>\n And she\u2019s shone a light on issues women face \u2014 from domestic violence in \u201cBig Little Lies\u201d to sexual frustration in \u2018Babygirl\u2019.<\/p>\n In 2017, Kidman made a vow to work with a female director every 18 months. <\/p>\n Over the last eight years, the Oscar winner has teamed up with a female director, either as a producer or as an actor, 19 times. \u201cBabygirl\u201d was directed by Halina Reijna. <\/p>\n Kidman has several more female-directed projects already in the pipeline.<\/p>\n Kidman supported her husband at the CMAs in May. Getty Images<\/p>\n She just filmed the movie, \u201cHolland,\u201d helmed by Mimi Cave, and her recent TV work has included Lulu Wang\u2019s \u201cExpats\u201d on Amazon Prime Video and Susanne Bier\u2019s \u201cThe Perfect Couple\u201d on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Kidman has indeed made a career of playing women who challenge the norms, with movies such as 1999\u2019s \u201cEyes Wide Shut\u201d with her first husband Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n