Tom Cruise is trying again on his time costarring alongside his now-ex Nicole Kidman in 1999’s Eyes Huge Shut.
In Sight and Sound journal’s June cowl story, Cruise, 62, was requested about filming with Kidman, 57, and director Stanley Kubrick.
“I flew out to his home, and I landed in his yard. I learn the script the day earlier than and we spent the day speaking about it. I knew all of his movies,” Cruise recalled, referring to Kubrick, who died in 1999 on the age of 70. “Then it was mainly he and I attending to know one another. And once we have been doing that, I instructed Nicole play the function [of Alice]. As a result of, clearly, she’s an awesome actress.”
Cruise additional informed Kubrick that, “No matter it’s going to take [to make the movie], we’re going to do that.”
In Eyes Huge Shut, Cruise stars as Dr. Invoice Harford, who goes on a trek to the Manhattan underworld after his spouse, Alice, reveals that she was unfulfilled of their marriage. Cruise and Kidman, in the meantime, have been married in actual life through the manufacturing course of. (The pair, who share two adopted youngsters, have been married from 1990 to 2001 and divorced two years after Eyes Huge Shut premiered.)
“I assumed the movie was very fascinating, and I needed to have that have,” Cruise informed the outlet, per The Independent. “After I go to make a film, I do numerous detailed investigation and numerous time with the folks earlier than I commit in order that I perceive what they want and wish and so they perceive me and the way we will work collectively and actually create one thing very particular.”
Whereas Invoice and Alice have been unhappily married within the flick, Cruise and Kidman have been experiencing the other offscreen.
“That matches the narrative that folks got here up with, however I positively didn’t see it like that,” Kidman informed The New York Times in 2020, after being requested if her function introduced “unfavorable emotions” to their real-life union. “We have been fortunately married.”
She added on the time, “We’d go go-kart racing after these scenes. We’d hire out a spot and go racing at three within the morning.”
Because the finish of their marriage, Kidman and Cruise usually decline to publicly focus on their relationship and breakup.
“I used to be younger. I believe I supplied it up? Perhaps I’ve gotten a bit extra trepidatious, however I’m all the time making an attempt to be as open as doable,” Kidman told Harper’s Bazaar in 2021 of talking publicly about their journey. “I simply favor to reside on this planet that manner. I’m cautious at instances, and I’ve been harm, however on the similar time, I a lot favor a heat method somewhat than a prickly shutdown method. My husband, Keith [Urban], says that when he met me, he mentioned, ‘How’s your coronary heart?’ And I apparently responded, ‘Open.’”
Kidman has been married to City, 57, since 2006, and so they share two teenage daughters. Cruise, for his half, went on to marry Katie Holmes in 2006, however they cut up six years later.