Tom Cruise is wanting again on his time costarring alongside his now-ex Nicole Kidman in 1999’s Eyes Vast 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 principally he and I attending to know one another. And after we had been doing that, I recommended Nicole play the function [of Alice]. As a result of, clearly, she’s a fantastic 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 Vast 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, had been married in actual life through the manufacturing course of. (The pair, who share two adopted youngsters, had been married from 1990 to 2001 and divorced two years after Eyes Vast Shut premiered.)
“I assumed the movie was very attention-grabbing, and I wished to have that have,” Cruise informed the outlet, per The Unbiased. “Once I go to make a film, I do a variety of detailed investigation and a variety of time with the folks earlier than I commit in order that I perceive what they want and need and so they perceive me and the way we will work collectively and actually create one thing very particular.”
Whereas Invoice and Alice had been unhappily married within the flick, Cruise and Kidman had been experiencing the alternative offscreen.
“That matches the narrative that folks got here up with, however I undoubtedly didn’t see it like that,” Kidman informed The New York Occasions in 2020, after being requested if her function introduced “destructive emotions” to their real-life union. “We had been fortunately married.”
She added on the time, “We might go go-kart racing after these scenes. We’d lease out a spot and go racing at three within the morning.”
Because the finish of their marriage, Kidman and Cruise typically decline to publicly focus on their relationship and breakup.
“I used to be younger. I feel 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 attainable,” Kidman informed Harper’s Bazaar in 2021 of talking publicly about their journey. “I simply choose to reside on the earth that approach. I’m cautious at instances, and I’ve been harm, however on the identical time, I a lot choose a heat strategy reasonably than a prickly shutdown strategy. My husband, Keith [Urban], says that when he met me, he stated, ‘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.


