Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has finally opened up about how her marriage to Tom Cruise had been. The actress recently revealed that they had a “happy” married life while shooting for Eyes Wide Shut, a film that released just a few months before they parted ways.
They split nearly 20 years ago in 2001 but Kidman recently opened up in a rare exclusive interview about her marriage to the Top Gun actor. The Aussie actress insisted that theirs was a “happy” marriage even in the months before they parted ways.
The 53-year-old star spoke in detail about the period when she filmed Eyes Wide Shut. The film came out only a few months before the couple decided to split.
The erotic film was the last one the exes did together before the Bombshell actress filed a divorce from the 58-year-old actor. She was being interviewed by The New York Times and stated that people interpreted too much into the movie at that time.
The actress mentioned that the speech her character delivered in the movie about betrayal and the stance on willingness to “give up on everything” was purely fictional. Those dialogues were not influenced by the state of their marriage.
Nicole Kidman recollects that at least she did not interpret her lines in that way. After all, they were a happily married couple at that point in time. The duo even used to enjoy go-kart racing after shooting those scenes, sometimes as late as three in the morning.
The former couple declared their intention to separate in 2001 and got divorced soon after. The exes share two adopted children – their 27-year-old daughter Isabella and 25-year-old son Connor.
Kidman went on to marry country crooner Keith Urban in the year 2006. They share two children together – Sunday, who is 12-year-old, and 9-year-old Faith.
She gushed about Stanley Kubrick, the director of the film, and stated that both she and Cruise had a great experience working with him. The film was shot for two years and their children would often join them on the sets.
She and Tom Cruise mostly lived in a trailer with their kids at that time and made spaghetti. That was because the film’s director loved eating with them sometimes, Mirror.co.uk reports.
The actress recollects sitting on the floor of her director’s office and watching animal videos. Kidman remembers that Kubrick used to say that animals were better than humans.
Nicole Kidman was highly praised for her role in Eyes Wide Shut. There were a number of erotic scenes in the film and she did not mind doing them as her rapport with the director was very good.