It has been a minute since we have heard Nicole Kidman discuss her marriage and dealing together with her ex-husband, Tom Cruise.
The Los Angeles Occasions did a retrospective with Nicole discussing her marriage to Tom and their making of Stanley Kubrick’s remaining movie, Eyes Extensive Shut.
The movie, which celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary this yr, was primarily based on the 1926 novella Dream Story and centered round themes of marriage and sexuality. So, it was fairly steamy to see the real-life Hollywood couple portraying the characters.
Within the LA Occasions interview, Nicole mentioned whether or not Stanley “mined” her precise relationship for inspiration throughout filming. Surprisingly, this wasn’t the primary time Nicole and Tom had shared the silver display.
Nicole and Tom met whereas filming the 1990 Tony Scott movie, Days of Thunder. Tom performed a race automotive driver, and Nicole was a physician and his love curiosity. The true-life ’90s energy couple have been married in December of that very same yr.
In 1992, the couple labored collectively once more on Ron Howard’s Far and Away. Within the film, they performed Irish immigrants searching for their fortune throughout the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893.
In 1999, Nicole and Tom starred in Eyes Extensive Shut and divorced two years later in December 2001.
On filming Eyes Extensive Shut collectively (which famously took nearly two years to finish), Nicole stated, “When Tom and I first began with Stanley, it was at his dwelling, and we did not even go over to the units at Pinewood [Studios].”
“We had a house 10 minutes away, however we lived in that trailer. Tom and I shared it as a result of Stanley would say, ‘You are not every getting a trailer. We will not afford it,'” she stated. “S had a smaller space as a result of he was operating stuff. And he’d play video video games. That was when [Minesweeper] was huge. So there was plenty of that.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Nicole mentioned whether or not Stanley was drawing inspiration from her marriage to Tom. “I suppose he was mining it,” Nicole stated.
“There have been concepts he was focused on. He’d ask plenty of questions. However he had a robust 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 is a triangle.’ As a result of one individual may really feel ganged up on. However he was conscious of that and knew how you can handle us.”
Eyes Extensive Shut, the celebrated director Stanley Kubrick’s remaining movie and now a cult basic, all the time had a particular contact by together with Tom and Nicole.
It is exceptional that Tom and Nicole’s three movies collectively, roughly, mark the start, center, and finish of their relationship. So, it is refreshing to listen to Nicole communicate on that have 25 years later.
If you have not seen Days of Thunder, Far and Away, or Eyes Extensive Shut — it is time you begin your ’90s Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman marathon.
Learn the complete interview right here.
