Nicole Kidman Recalls Stanley Kubrick “Mining” Tom Cruise Marriage For ‘Eyes Wide Shut’
deadline.comAs Nicole Kidman marks 25 years since Eyes Wide Shut, she’s reflecting on making the movie with her co-star and then-husband Tom Cruise.
The Academy Award winner recalled working with writer/director Stanley Kubrick and “just a lot of talking” as they spent weeks rehearsing one memorable scene of the pair having an intimate talk over a joint in their bedroom. “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],” she told the Los Angeles Times. “Six, eight weeks passed, and we’re wondering, ‘Are we ever going to start?’ And we just wouldn’t start.
We were getting comfortable with each other, comfortable enough to throw out ideas. For that scene, we improvised the beginning of it through the rehearsals.” Kidman was married to Cruise from 1990 to 2001, during which they filmed Kubrick’s final feature from 1996 to 1998, after an extensive rehearsal period.
She presumes the director found inspiration in their marriage while working on the scene. “I suppose he was mining it,” said Kidman. “There were ideas he was interested in.
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