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If you aren’t already, you need to prepare yourself for the inevitability of becoming a “Dickhead” this winter. That, of course, is the name bestowed upon fans of the British actor Harris Dickinson. This Christmas (!), he’ll be starring opposite Nicole Kidman in Babygirl, in which she plays a successful CEO who throws caution to the wind in order to get dommed by her intern (Dickinson). A perfect movie to go see with your parents at your hometown movie theater!
The trailer for the hotly anticipated movie — Kidman took home Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival — was released yesterday. Let’s all watch and circle back afterward. (If you are in an open-floor-plan office or a coffee shop, please wear headphones.)
Are you blushing? I’m blushing. There’s so much to take in. The way he pulls away from her kiss as a power move. The twisted use of “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” as the score. The milk. Suffice it to say, I’m all in on this. Perhaps you are as well, but you also find yourself wanting to know more about Dickinson. I’ve got you.
The main thing to know about Harris Dickinson is that he is not only talented but has very good taste when it comes to picking projects. In addition to Babygirl, he’s going to star alongside Saoirse Ronan in Steve McQueen’s Blitz later this year. Thankfully, this means that if you want to get caught up on his oeuvre before Babygirl, you don’t have to watch three seasons of a teenage soap opera in which he plays a tertiary jock or whatever (no shade to Drew Starkey, who I’m sure is great).
If you’re looking for a place to start, the beginning is usually the right choice. Dickinson made his film debut in Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats, playing a Brooklyn teen grappling with his sexuality. This movie will bum you out, but you’ll also be pretty astounded at what a 22-year-old Dickinson was capable of in 2017. He also played Prince Charming in Maleficent 2 — a tasteful paycheck. Next, if you have two-and-a-half spare hours, you could watch Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winning Triangle of Sadness — or you could just watch this clip on a loop.
Most recently, he played one of the brothers in The Iron Claw, where he portrayed the most charismatic member of the Von Erich wrestling dynasty. If you also saw that trailer approximately one million times last year, he’s the one who says, “The hands that will deliver the iron claw to you.” Dickinson has less screen time than co-stars Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White but manages to steal the show nonetheless. He even took a turn as a hacker-artist with blunt bangs in Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s A Murder at the End of the World. The range.
I think you should be caught up to speed? If you want to become a card-carrying Dickhead, don’t forget to send in your dues (one ticket stub to Babygirl) and clock in for your meme-making shift. So far, this is our best and only one:
— Olivia Cuntinson (@whankpuffin) March 4, 2024
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