Nicole Kidman opens up about the experience of making Eyes Wide Shut with ex-husband Tom Cruise

As Nicole Kidman celebrates 25 years since Eyes Wide Shut, she’s wanting again on making the movie along with her co-star and then-husband Tom Cruise.

The Oscar winner remembered collaborating with author/director Stanley Kubrick and “simply quite a lot of speaking” as they spent weeks rehearsing one memorable scene of the couple having an intimate dialog over a joint of their bed room.

“When Tom and I first began with Stanley, it was at his residence, and we did not even go over to the units at Pinewood [Studios],” she informed the Los Angeles Times. “Six, eight weeks handed, and we’re questioning, ‘Are we ever going to start out?’ And we simply would not begin. We had been getting snug with one another, snug sufficient to throw out concepts. For that scene, we improvised the start of it by means of the rehearsals.”

Kidman was married to Cruise from 1990 to 2001, throughout which they filmed Kubrick’s remaining film from 1996 to 1998, after an extended rehearsal interval. She thinks the director discovered inspiration of their marriage whereas engaged on the scene.

“I suppose he was mining it,” mentioned Kidman. “There have been concepts he was thinking about. He’d ask quite a lot of questions. However he had a robust sense of the story he was telling. I do keep in mind him saying, ‘Triangles are arduous. You must tread fastidiously when it is a triangle.’ As a result of one particular person might really feel ganged up on. However he was conscious of that and knew easy methods to handle us.”

The Australian-American actress clarified she by no means felt ganged up on, “However there’s one thing about being a girl in that equation, too. And Stanley preferred ladies. He had a unique relationship with Tom. They labored extra carefully collectively on his character.”

Kidman beforehand talked concerning the film in a 2017 interview with Deadline, saying how grateful she was to have a “barely zen method to issues” in the course of the lengthy shoot. “As a result of I used to be married and I had my children there. It wasn’t like I used to be dashing to get completed, to get someplace else. I used to be there, with Stanley, and I did not care. No matter,” she mentioned.

Kubrick died of a coronary heart assault at 70 on March 7, 1999, simply days after exhibiting a remaining reduce of Eyes Broad Shut to his household and the movie’s stars.

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