Nicole Kidman took a trip down memory lane while she recalled making Eyes Wide Shut with her then-husband, Tom Cruise . During a Tuesday, July 16, interview with the Los Angeles Times , Kidman, 57, was asked if the film’s director, Stanley Kubrick , was ever “mining” her real-life relationship with Cruise, 62, for inspiration. “I suppose he was mining it,” she told the outlet.
“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.’ Because one person could feel ganged up on.
But he was aware of that and knew how to manage us.” Kidman clarified that she didn’t feel “ganged up on” while filming, but there was clearly a difference between Kubrick’s dynamic with her and Cruise. “There’s something about being a woman in that equation, too,” she said.
“And Stanley liked women. He had a different relationship with Tom. They worked more closely together on his character.
” Kidman recalled there being “a lot of talking” for one particular scene where she and Cruise’s characters shared a joint in their bedroom. “When Tom and I first started with Stanley, it was at his home, and we didn’t even go over to the sets at Pinewood [Studios],” she explained. “Six, eight weeks passed, and we’re wondering, ‘Are we ever going to start?’ And we just wouldn’t start.
We were g.