Los Angeles Times about the 25th anniversary of the former couple’s 1999 movie “Eyes Wide Shut,” written and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Kidman was asked if she thought Kubrick “wasmining” her marriage to Cruise, 62, to develop the relationship between their characters.“I suppose he was mining it,” Kidman said.“There were ideas he was interested in.
He’d ask a lot of questions,” she continued. “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” follows a physician (Cruise) who infiltrates an underground sex group after learning his wife (Kidman) contemplated having an affair. “There’s something about being a woman in that equation, too,” Kidman said in the interview. “And Stanley liked women.
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