It’s been a while since we’ve heard Nicole Kidman talk about her marriage and working with ex-husband, Tom Cruise.
THE Los Angeles Times did 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, is based on the 1926 novella Dream story and centered around the themes of marriage and sexuality. So it was pretty hot to see the real Hollywood couple play the characters.
In the interview with the LA Times, Nicole explained whether Stanley “mined” her 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, Days of thunder. Tom played a race car driver, and Nicole was a doctor and in love with him. The ’90s couple married in December of that year.
In 1992, the couple worked together again on Ron Howard’s film. Far. In the film, they play Irish immigrants seeking fortune during the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893.
On set Eyes wide closed together (which took almost two years to complete), Nicole said: “When Tom and I started with Stanley, it was at his house, and we didn’t even go to the sets at Pinewood [Studios]” . “
“We had a house 10 minutes away, but we lived in this trailer. Tom and I shared it because Stanley was like, ‘You’re not each going to have a trailer. We can’t afford it,’” she said. “S had a smaller space because he was running stuff. And he was playing video games. That’s when [Minesweeper] It was huge. So there were a lot of them.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Nicole asked if Stanley took inspiration from her marriage to Tom. “I guess he tapped into it,” Nicole said.
“There were ideas that interested him. He asked a lot of questions. But he had a very specific idea of the story he was telling. I remember him saying, ‘Triangles are difficult. You have to be careful when it’s a triangle.’ Because…
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