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It’s been a minute since we’ve heardNicole Kidmantalk about her marriage and working with her ex-husband,Tom Cruise.
TheLos Angeles Timesdid a retrospective with Nicole discussing her marriage to Tom and their making of Stanley Kubrick’s final film,Eyes Wide Shut.
The film, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, was based on the 1926 novellaDream Storyand centered around themes of marriage and sexuality.So, it was pretty steamy to see the real-life Hollywood couple portraying the characters.
In the LA Times interview, Nicole discussed whether Stanley “mined” her actual relationship for inspiration during filming. Surprisingly, this wasn’t the first time Nicole and Tom had shared the silver screen.
Nicole and Tom met while filming the 1990 Tony Scott film,Days of Thunder.Tom played a race car driver, and Nicole was a doctor and his love interest. The real-life ’90s power couple were married in December of that same year.
In 1992, the couple worked together again on Ron Howard’sFar and Away.In the movie, they played Irish immigrants seeking their fortune during the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893.
In 1999, Nicole and Tom starred inEyes Wide Shutanddivorcedtwo years later in December 2001.
On filmingEyes Wide Shuttogether (which famously took almost two years to complete), Nicole said, “When Tom and I first started with Stanley, it was at his home, and we didn’t even go over to the sets at Pinewood [Studios].”
“We had a home 10 minutes away, but we lived in that trailer. Tom and I shared it because Stanley would say, ‘You’re not each getting a trailer. We can’t afford it,'” she said. “S had a smaller area because he was running stuff. And he’d play video games. That was when [Minesweeper] was big. So there was a lot of that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Nicole discussed whether Stanley was drawing inspiration from her marriage to Tom. “I suppose he was mining it,” Nicole said.
“There were ideas he was interested in. He’d ask a lot of questions. But he had a strong sense of the story he was telling. I do remember him saying, ‘Triangles are hard. You have to tread carefully when it’s a triangle.’ Because one person could feel ganged up on. But he was aware of that and knew how to manage us.”
Eyes Wide Shut,the celebrated director Stanley Kubrick’s final film and now a cult classic, always had a special touch by including Tom and Nicole.
It’s remarkable that Tom and Nicole’s three films together, more or less, mark the beginning, middle, and end of their relationship. So, it’s refreshing to hear Nicole speak on that experience 25 years later.
If you haven’t seenDays of Thunder, Far and Away,orEyes Wide Shut —it’s time you start your ‘90sTom CruiseandNicole Kidmanmarathon.
Read the full interviewhere.
