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Nicole Kidman has spoken out about her former relationship with Tom Cruise.
In honor of the anniversary of his 1999 film Eyes wide ShutKidman reflected on what the filming process was like for her, as well as whether or not the film's director, Stanley Kubrick, decided to take advantage of their relationship.
“I guess I was just milking it,” the actress said in an interview with the magazine. Los Angeles Times“There were ideas that interested him. He asked a lot of questions, but he had a strong sense of the story he was telling. I remember him saying, ‘Triangles are tricky. You have to be careful when you’re dealing with a triangle.’”
The Oscar winner added: “Because a person could feel attacked. But he was aware of that and he knew how to handle us.”
Kidman and Cruise were married for more than a decade, from 1990 to 2001. They share two children: Isabella, 31, and Connor, 29.
Despite their relationship at the time, The family affair The actress admitted that being a woman led her to have a slightly different relationship with the director simply because of her gender. “Being a woman has something to do with it as well,” she continued. “And Stanley liked women. He had a different relationship with Tom. They worked more closely on his character.”
This isn't the first time Kidman has spoken out about the dynamic she had with Cruise while filming the movie. She also spoke to the New York Times about her marriage to Cruise in October 2020.
“We were happily married after that,” Kidman told the outlet. “After those scenes, we used to go go-karting. We would rent a place and go racing at three in the morning. I don’t know what else to say. Maybe I don’t have the ability to look back and analyze it. Or I’m not willing to.”
After divorcing Cruise, Kidman married Keith Urban in 2006. They have two children: Sunday, 15, and Faith, 13.
In April, the musician took the stage at the 49th AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala, where he explained what it was like to meet the Big little lies actress and how scared I was to call her.
“I tried to remain calm, but deep down I felt like I had crashed the royal ball simply because Nic had a truly supernatural aura,” she said, referring to how they met in January 2005 at the G'Day USA gala. “I felt a bit like I was meeting a real-life princess.”
Urban admitted that he managed to “get her phone number on a little piece of paper,” but it took him a little more courage to call the actress because of his fears.
“I was scared. I was nervous about calling her,” he explained. “As you can probably tell, I worked up the courage to finally call her.”
“I want to take this opportunity to talk about Nic’s heart and spirit. We got married in June of 2006, and just four months into our marriage, my addictions, which I had done nothing to address, tore our marriage apart,” she explained. “And I was admitted to the Betty Ford Center for three months. Four months into my marriage, I’m in rehab for three months. I had no idea what was going to happen to us.”
“And if you want to see what love really looks like in action, give it a chance,” he said. “Nic overcame all the negative voices, I’m sure even some of his own. And he chose love. And here we are tonight, 18 years later.”
