Nicole Kidman makes RARE comment about working with ex-husband Tom Cruise on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut - and admits they had to share a trailer to save money Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 01:00, 23 July 2024 | Updated: 01:08, 23 July 2024 e-mail View comments Nicole Kidman rarely speaks about her time being married to Tom Cruise , but she made a rare departure recently while speaking about their work on Stanley Kubrick's classic film Eyes Wide Shut.
The 57-year-old Oscar winner — who was married to Cruise, 62, from 1990 to 2001 — detailed the relationship the married costars had with Kubrick while filming the dark drama in an interview with the Los Angeles Times . She opined that the director was 'mining' their marriage for material to flesh out the film, which premiered in 1999 and became a box office hit after grossing $162 million against a $65 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo . The Top Gun star and the Big Little Lies actress spent years working on the film, which began production in 1996 and wrapped in 1998, before being released in the summer of 1999, giving it the record for the longest continuous film shoot at 400 days.
Kubrick would die at age 70 just days after showing what was reportedly his final cut of the film to its stars. Kidman — whose daughter Sunday had a surprising reaction to a scene in which she gets stoned in Eyes Wide Shut — described how the Clockwork Orange filmma.