Tom Cruise look back on his time costing his now-ex Nicole Kidman In 1999 Eyes wide.
In View and sound The magazine’s June coverage, Cruise, 62, was questioned on the set with Kidman, 57, and director Stanley Kubrick.
“I stole at home, and I landed in his backyard. I read the scenario the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all his films,” recalls Cruise, referring to Kubrick, who died in 1999 at the age of 70. “Then it was mainly him and I knew myself. [of Alice]. Because, of course, she is a great actress.
Cruise said to Kubrick: “Anyway [to make the movie]We are going to do this.
In Eyes wide, closed, Cruise features Dr. Bill Harford, who goes hiking to the world of Manhattan after his wife, Alice, reveals that she was not made in their marriage. Cruise and Kidman, on the other hand, were married in real life during the production process. (La Pair, which shares two adopted children, married from 1990 to 2001 and Two -year -old After Eyes widened created.)
“I thought the film was very interesting, and I wanted to have this experience,” Cruise told The Outlet, by The independent. “When I’m going to make a film, I do a lot of detailed investigations and a lot of time with people before getting involved in order to understand what they need and want and they understand me and how we can work together and really create something very special.”
While Bill and Alice were unfortunately married in the film, Cruise and Kidman knew the opposite extra screen.
“It corresponds to the story that people have found, but I certainly did not see it like that,” said Kidman The New York Times In 2020, after being asked if his role had brought “negative feelings” to their real union. “We got married.”
She added at the time: “We were going to do kart races after these scenes. We praised a place and went to run at three in the morning. ”
Since the end of their marriage, Kidman and Cruise have often refused to discuss their relationship and their rupture publicly.
“I was young. I think I gave it? said Harper bazaar in 2021 to speak publicly about their trip. “I just prefer to live in the world this way. I sometimes be wary, and I was injured, but at the same time, I prefer a warm approach rather than an approach to thorny closure. My husband, Keith [Urban]said that when he met me, he said, “How are you?” And I apparently replied, “open”. »»
Kidman has been married to Urban, 57, since 2006, and they share two teenage girls. Cruise, for his part, continued to marry Katie Holmes In 2006, but they separated six years later.