It’s been a while since we heard Nicole Kidman talk about her marriage and working with her ex-husband, Tom Cruise.
The Los Angeles Times did a retrospective with Nicole talking about her marriage to Tom and the making of Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes wide Shut.
The film, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, was based on the 1926 novel Story of dreams and focused on issues of marriage and sexuality.. So, it was quite exciting to see the real-life Hollywood couple playing the characters.
In the interview with the LA Times, Nicole talked about whether Stanley “mined” their real-life relationship for inspiration during filming. Surprisingly, this wasn’t the first time Nicole and Tom shared the big screen.
Nicole and Tom met while filming Tony Scott’s 1990 film, Stormy days. Tom played a racing driver and Nicole played a doctor and his love interest. The 90s power couple tied the knot in December of that same year.
In 1992, the couple worked together again on Ron Howard’s film. Far. In the film, they played Irish immigrants seeking their fortune during the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893.
In 1999, Nicole and Tom starred Eyes wide Shut and they divorced two years later, in December 2001.
About the filming Eyes wide Shut together (which famously took almost two years to complete), Nicole said, “When Tom and I started Stanley, it was at his house, and we didn’t even go to the sets of Pinewood (Studios).”
“We had a house 10 minutes away, but we lived in that trailer. Tom and I shared it because Stanley was like, ‘You’re not going to each have a trailer. We can’t afford it,'” he said. “S had a smaller area because he was in charge of things. And he played video games. That’s when (Minesweeper) was big. So there was a lot of that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Nicole discussed whether Stanley was inspired by her marriage to Tom. “I guess he was inspired by that,” Nicole said.
“There were ideas that interested him. He asked a lot of questions, but he had a strong sense of the story he was telling. I remember him saying, ‘Triangles are tricky. You have to be careful when you’re dealing with a triangle,’ because one person could feel attacked in a group, but he was aware of that and knew how to handle us.”
Eyes wide Shut, The final film by celebrated director Stanley Kubrick and now a cult classic, it always had a special touch by including Tom and Nicole.
It’s remarkable that the three films Tom and Nicole made together mark, more or less, the beginning, middle and end of their relationship. So it’s refreshing to hear Nicole talk about that experience 25 years later.
If you haven’t seen it Days of thunder, far and away, either Eyes wide Shut – It’s time to start your ’90s Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman marathon.
Read the full interview here.