nubile

In her spotlight tune “All You Wanna Do,” she boasts of her nubile sex appeal but notes that being a female sex object has its own perils.

At once nubile and infantile, the Maries are creatures of impulse and appetite — mainly for food and destruction.

As Cusk writes in the profile, which finally situated Paul, at 60, as more than Lucien Freud’s nubile muse, female artists have to work through or around or beside their gender.

It’s a refreshing reversal of the usual Hollywood practice of pairing nubile women with older-model men, but Murphy’s casting choices carry a neon glow.

“It’s not funny any more: this nubile young girl being chased around an apartment by this elderly, very powerful man.”