Halina Reijn is currently achieving international success thanks to her new film with Nicole Kidman, but she is still very concerned about what people in the Netherlands think about it. “And Johan Derksen.”
It is quite impressive of Halina Reijn how much international success she is currently achieving with the Nicole Kidman film Babygirl, which she directed, but it is starting to become a bit embarrassing how many messages she retweets about her success and her interactions with the Hollywood star. She is clearly very proud of it.
What does Johan think?
Where does Halina’s enormous need for proof come from? It also has to do with her image in the Netherlands, she says de Volkskrant. “Yes. I have been quite maligned in the Netherlands for my honesty. You shouldn’t be guided by that, you should follow your heart,” she says.
“But there is also a child in me that can concern itself with the question of whether Johan Derksen likes me. I want to be honest about that again.”
Terrible person
It is no secret that Johan has little interest in Halina. He called her a “terrible person” in 2015. René van der Gijp then: “An entire platoon of riot police will have to go through that. Damn, what a creep that is!”
To make matters worse, Halina was confronted with those images a few months later when she was a guest in College Tour by presenter Twan Huys. “Did you see that part?” he asked. She: “Yes, of course I saw that. Several people have shown that to me.”
Pretty pissed off
Twan asked if Halina would mind showing the fragment, but she did not want to. He then showed it again. Afterwards, somewhat annoyed: “I find it interesting that you want to show this to me. (…) I find it very unpleasant to watch. I think this goes way too far.”
She has often been bullied because of her appearance, Halina said years later. “Also more direct: she is too ugly. Definitely in the Netherlands. A renowned manufacturer at the time wanted to have prosthetics made to make my face more symmetrical.”
Botox
Halina is now fully on Botox, she now admits in that Volkskrant interview. “I find it difficult not to do botox, because I am single, I have been sexless for seven years. But I also know that a perfect appearance is not going to lead to satisfaction; Only self-acceptance does that.”
And that’s difficult with all that criticism, she thinks. “You have to have such an elephant skin to withstand that. The answer, of course, is that you should be completely yourself, but I still think, even though I live as a nun and – unfortunately – never have sex, when I look at my arm and see all my black hair: they have to go.”
No sex
Halina confirms in it A.D Indeed she hasn’t slept with anyone in years. “I haven’t had sex for years, yes. Not even kissed, how do you feel about that? I live like a nun.”
“There is one dating app that I sometimes look at, but I have never met someone to actually sit down in a restaurant and ask what their favorite color is, or something like that. It just doesn’t happen, not for a long time.”