Yahoo Lifestyle Nicole Kidman Recalls Experience of Stanley Kubrick 'Mining' Her Marriage to Tom Cruise for “Eyes Wide Shut”
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were married from 1990 until 2001
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in 'Eyes Wide Shut'Nicole Kidman is remembering one of her most iconic films.
In an interview with The Los Angeles Times published on July 16, Kidman, 57, spoke about filming Eyes Wide Shut in 1999 with director Stanley Kubrick and her then-husband Tom Cruise. The film, which stars Kidman and Cruise as a married couple grappling with infidelity, recently turned 25.
"I suppose he was mining it," Kidman told the publication when asked if Kubrick, who died in 1999 months before the movie was released, "mined" her and Cruise's marriage to "inform the relationship" between the two lead characters.
Kidman and Cruise, 62, officially divorced in 2001, after first tying the knot in 1990.
"There were ideas he was interested in. He’d ask a lot of questions. But he had a strong sense of the story he was telling," she continued of Kubrick, who also directed The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.
"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."
Kidman previously told Harper's Bazaar in September 2021 she was too open about her relationship with Cruise during their 11-year marriage. "I was young. I think I offered it up?" she said regarding the scrutiny she and Cruise endured.
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"Maybe I've gotten a bit more trepidatious, but I'm always trying to be as open as possible. I just prefer to live in the world that way," she continued.
Though Kidman said she can be "wary at times" she would rather have "a warm approach rather than a prickly shutdown approach."
"My husband, Keith [Urban], says that when he met me, he said, 'How's your heart?' And I apparently responded, 'Open.'"
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Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise at the 'Eyes Wide Shut' premiere in 1999Kidman's daughter Sunday, 15, was impressed with her mom's acting in one particular Eyes White Shut scene when she saw it in April when the American Film Institute celebrated her career.
"At the AFI [Life Achievement Award] tribute, they saw the scene where I get stoned," Kidman told The Los Angeles Times. "They showed that and I was like, 'Ooooh. Golly. OK.' I sat next to my daughter, Sunday, watching that."
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"She said, 'Mom, that was good.' And then they showed that scene in Birth," Kidman added, mentioning the 2004 movie.
"And she said, 'That was really good.' And I watched that scene and thought, 'Wow. That was really good.' And I never do that."
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