Cinematom Cruise indicated Nicole Kidman for well -closed -eyed role: ‘Great actress’Ator said she suggested her wife to star in Stanley Kubrickpor’s latest movie

Tom Cruise revealed that it was he who suggested that Nicole Kidmanhis wife at the time, be climbed to the cast of Eye -tuned (EYES WIDE SHUT, In the original), last movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. In a rare interview granted to the magazine SIGHT AND SOUNDthe actor told how Kidman’s name came up during the first conversations about the project.

“I flew to his house, I landed in the backyard. I read the script the day before and spent the day talking about it. I knew all his movies,” Cruise reported about the first date with Kubrick.

“When we were in this process of meeting, I suggested that Nicole interpret [a personagem Alice]. Because obviously she is a great actress. ”

Cruise also said that from the beginning, she showed absolute commitment to the movie. “I told him: ‘Whatever needed to make this movie, we will do.'”

Kubrick already had the idea of ​​climbing a royal couple to interpret Bill and Alice Harfordprotagonists of the erotic drama released in 1999. Before Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, the director would have considered the actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger for the papers.

Relationship in real life was different from the screen

In the movie, Bill and Alice Harford are a new York couple in crisis, plunged into tensions, insecurities and temptations. Eye -tuned explores the hidden universe of high society and the impact of fantasies and confessions on the marriage of the characters.

At the time of the launch, the relationship between Cruise and Kidman – married among 1990 and 2001 He generated speculation that the plot would reflect his real life. However, in an interview with The New York Times In 2020, Kidman denied his comparisons.

“This narrative was created by people, but I definitely didn’t see this way,” he said.

“We were happy in the wedding.”