Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, 1999. Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Pictures
Nicole Kidman took a visit down reminiscence lane whereas she recalled making Eyes Extensive Shut along with her then-husband, Tom Cruise.
Throughout a Tuesday, July 16, interview with the Los Angeles Occasions, Kidman, 57, was requested if the movie’s director, Stanley Kubrick, was ever “mining” her real-life relationship with Cruise, 62, for inspiration.
“I suppose he was mining it,” she informed the outlet. “There have been concepts he was keen on. He’d ask a number of questions. However he had a powerful sense of the story he was telling. I do keep in mind him saying, ‘Triangles are arduous. It’s important to tread fastidiously when it’s a triangle.’ As a result of one individual may really feel ganged up on. However he was conscious of that and knew learn how to handle us.”
Kidman clarified that she didn’t really feel “ganged up on” whereas filming, however there was clearly a distinction between Kubrick’s dynamic along with her and Cruise. “There’s one thing about being a girl in that equation, too,” she stated. “And Stanley preferred ladies. He had a special relationship with Tom. They labored extra carefully collectively on his character.”
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Kidman recalled there being “a number of speaking” for one specific scene the place she and Cruise’s characters shared a joint of their bed room.
“When Tom and I first began with Stanley, it was at his dwelling, and we didn’t even go over to the units at Pinewood [Studios],” she defined. “Six, eight weeks handed, and we’re questioning, ‘Are we ever going to begin?’ And we simply wouldn’t begin. We have been getting snug with one another, snug sufficient to throw out concepts. For that scene, we improvised the start of it by the rehearsals.”
After filming for 2 years, Eyes Extensive Shut premiered in 1999. Kubrick died earlier than the film’s launch. Whereas paying tribute to the legendary director in 2012, Kidman mirrored on rumors that Eyes Extensive Shut led to her and Cruise’s divorce.
“Individuals thought that making the movie was the start of the top of my marriage — however I don’t actually assume it was,” Kidman wrote in an essay for The Hollywood Reporter on the time. “Tom and I have been shut then, and it was very a lot the three of us.”
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She continued, “Onscreen, the husband and spouse are at odds, and Stanley needed to make use of our marriage as a supposed actuality. That was Stanley: He used the film as provocation, pretending it was our intercourse life. Which we weren’t oblivious to, however clearly it wasn’t us. We each determined to dedicate ourselves to an amazing filmmaker and artist.”
Kidman and Cruise tied the knot in December 1990 after assembly earlier that 12 months whereas filming Tony Scott’s Days of Thunder. The pair adopted children Isabella and Connor in 1992 and 1995, respectively, earlier than calling it quits in 2001. After a quick engagement to Lenny Kravitz in 2003, Kidman tied the knot with Keith City in 2006, and the pair share daughters Sunday Rose, 16, and Religion, 13.
