Halina Reijn

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Counted as writer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: Babygirl (2024); Instinct; Red Light. Count them as director (2 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Basic Instinct (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Babygirl (2024), which they wrote: Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode). Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist.
    “I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Babygirl (2024), which they wrote: Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read). The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

George Michael: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Babygirl (2024), which they wrote: George Michael ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode). Reijn chose Father Figure before writing: a younger man acting fatherly over an older woman with the power.
    “I thought, 0 my god, father figure has all these elements, and if you play that, under a scene where this younger man acts fatherly over this older woman that has all the power, that could be so interesting.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:33:19 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Writing (3) everyone in writing

Directing (2) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Halina Reijn → George Michael. Reijn calls 'Father Figure' her lifelong anthem, tied to losing her father at 10, before it became the film's song.
    “father figure has become my anthem of my life, I lost my father when I was very young.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:32:44 · Halina Reijn (0.95 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Halina Reijn → Paul Verhoeven. Intense tension blended with absurdist humor that pierces it is a Verhoeven idea Reijn shares, partly as Dutch humor.
    “that is a very distinctly verhoven idea too.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:08:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Halina Reijn → Paul Verhoeven. Reijn says she and Verhoeven are similar, earthy and Dutch with cynical, ironic humor.
    “The Dutch have a lot of cynical, ironic humor.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:09:26 · Halina Reijn (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.