Nicole Kidman Reflects on Working With Ex-Husband Tom Cruise in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ in Rare Comment
While speaking to the Los Angeles Times earlier this month, Nicole, 57, was asked if director Stanley Kubrick took inspiration from her and Tom’s real life romance for the film.
“I suppose he was mining it,” she said. “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. I do remember him saying, ‘Triangles are hard. You have to tread carefully when it’s a triangle.’”
Nicole continued, “Because one person could feel ganged up on. But he was aware of that and knew how to manage us.”
In addition to discussing how Stanley used their relationship to craft the film, Nicole also explained that she and Tom, 62, had their own ways of communicating with the director.
“There’s something about being a woman in that equation, too,” the Big Little Lies star said. “And Stanley liked women. He had a different relationship with Tom. They worked more closely together on his character.”
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 24, 2024 2:33 PM
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She's been coyly talking about Tom Cruise for the past few years. I wish she was tell us EVERYTHING, every dirty personal detail or just stop talking about it altogether.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 24, 2024 1:10 AM
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Well she tapped dance around that, didn't she.
I guess she couldn't very well say "We needed an intimacy coordinator to coach us since we've never done the dirty"
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 24, 2024 1:13 AM
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R1 kinda like when Rosie spoke to the author of the view book for 10 minutes and told him she had fallen in love with Elisabeth Hasselbeck and was molested by her father?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 24, 2024 1:13 AM
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R1 she has been willing to acknowledge their work together, which is progress because she wouldn’t even speak about that for many years. But she’s speaking about work, not a tell-all.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 24, 2024 1:15 AM
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Right, r3. I want to know what is was like to live with that maniac. I'm not interested in "Tom's fame stopped me from getting sexually harassed" or "the children I adopted with Tom won't speak to me because they're balls deep in a cult". A lot of the stuff she's revealed in the past five years is stuff we could have guessed.
I guess I find it annoying because she has to know that bringing up Tom Cruise will get her an instant headline yet she won't reveal anything juicy, r4. She knows people aren't clicking on the story because they love Eyes Wide Shut.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 24, 2024 1:22 AM
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R5 EWS has gained a cult status following
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 24, 2024 1:24 AM
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Triangles is code for obtuseness, surely.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 24, 2024 1:41 AM
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Pointless, sordid, forgettable film. If you get through it once you'll never see it twice.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 24, 2024 2:15 AM
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[quote]EWS has gained a cult status following But that's not why anyone wants to hear what se has to say about it.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 24, 2024 3:36 AM
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I think if she was talking about any non-Tom Cruise aspect of that movie then it wouldn't have gotten a headline. I'm not convinced it has a cult following. I think most people just consider it a disappointment because it's Kubrick's last movie and it's pretty boring. It's not even weird or salacious enough to be campy.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 24, 2024 4:29 AM
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It’s gotten tons of attention in recent months. That’s why people ASK QUESTIONS about it. Shes not just bringing it up. She was ASKED so she answered.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 24, 2024 4:55 AM
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Did those two ever have real sex? I never got that vibe, it was weird.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 24, 2024 4:58 AM
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A few articles about the 25th anniversary of something apparently qualifies as "tons of attention" and means that EWS has a "cult status following".
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 24, 2024 9:44 AM
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#13, the 24/7 carnivorous media machine needs constant fuel.
Next up: Gen Z discovers Rip Taylor.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 24, 2024 12:10 PM
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R13 there have been articles coming out about it since at least 2019. Numerous articles in 2022 and 2023 as well. Google is your friend
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 24, 2024 12:50 PM
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In 2022 IndieWire named it the greatest movie to be released in the 90s.
As stated, a once trashed film has been reappraised in recent years.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 24, 2024 12:52 PM
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| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 24, 2024 1:25 PM
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I really like Kidman. She’s a really good actress, & a class act.
That said, the film was boring & difficult to get through. She’s not responsible for that, nor is her ex.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 24, 2024 2:33 PM
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