Tom Cruise makes rare comments about ex Nicole Kidman

Tom Cruise have made rare comments about ex-wife Nicole Kidman.

The Top Gun: Maverick The actor, 62, praised Practical magic Stjärn’s actor in a new interview with British Film Institute’s Vision and sound journal.

While I discussed the 1999 film Eyebret closedCruise recalled to fly out to meet director Stanley Kubrick to discuss the film at home with the filmmaker – and how he made a key casting proposal.

“It was basically that he and I get to know each other,” said actor Per Deadline. “And when we did that, I suggested that Nicole play the role (by Alice). Because she is obviously a great actress.”

Kidman, 57, eventually landed the role of the sexual drama, and she and Cruise – who had been married at that time – played the couple Dr. William Hartford and his wife Alice Hartford, when they handled infidelity.

The Assignment: Impossible told the actor Vision and sound That the former couple worked hard to get the “tone of the movie” right.

“It was a very unique experience – not a great crew,” he reminded himself to the newspaper. “We arrived in the summer and basically we just started testing … The script was just an idea. We (where) constantly wrote about the scenes and shot the scenes and then retrained the scenes to really find the tone in the movie.”

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Kidman earlier Reflected on the film In an interview from 2020 with New York Timeswith the task of, despite the dark tones of the film, she and Cruise – who married in 1990 after meeting on the set Days of Thunder – Often found ways to lighter the atmosphere after a shoot.

“We would go on map racing after these scenes,” Kidman said. “We would rent out a place and compete at 3 o’clock in the morning.”

The actress also explained that they had raised their children – daughter Isabella And son Trasch – At that time and would often have family dinners with Kubrick, who died at the age of 70 shortly after the film was completed.

“We loved working with him. We shot it for two years,” she said. “We had two children and lived in a trailer on the party mainly, did spaghetti because Stanley liked to eat with us sometimes. We worked with the greatest filmmaker and learned about our lives and enjoyed our lives on set.”

Kidman and Cruise were divided in 2001. Over a decade after the division, the actress told Dujour journal 2012 that it “took me very long to heal.” She added the publication that the farewell “was a shock to my system.”

Cruise would continue to marry Katie Holmes And welcome daughter Surialthough the latter were to be divided in 2012. Kidman married in the meantime Keith Urban 2006, and the couple share two daughters: Sunday, 16, and Faith, 14.