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Nicole Kidman is finally opening up about her marriage to Tom Cruise… nearly 20 years after their high-profile split!
The Academy Award winner just made the extremely rare comments about her ex to New York Times Magazine. Here’s what she had to say:
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The Australian actress spoke about her marriage to the “Mission Impossible” star in a new interview published this week; specifically the time the couple spent filming Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.”
The press had widely reported that the film drove a wedge in the famous couple's relationship--but Nicole is here to set the record straight on that!
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"We were happily married through that," she revealed to the publication. We almost fell off our chair!
The couple were together from from 1990 to 2001, and shot the Kubrick film in 1999. While she concedes that the movie did take longer than expected to complete--she shot down rumors that it was anywhere close to the cause for their split. She called those reports a "fallacy."
"We loved working with him," she asserted. "We shot that for two years. We had two kids and were living in a trailer on the lot primarily, making spaghetti because Stanley liked to eat with us sometimes. We were working with the greatest filmmaker and learning about our lives and enjoying our lives on set." Wow, so interesting!
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Kidman did admit that the couple had no idea what to expect when filming starting. "We would say, “When is it going to end?” We went over there thinking it was going to be three months. It turned into a year, a year and a half. But you go, As long as I surrender to what this is, I’m going to have an incredible time. Stanley, he wasn’t torturous. He was arduous in that he would shoot a lot. But I’d sit on the floor of his office and talk, and we’d watch animal videos."
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Kidman was adamant that the film did not put a strain on their relationship. "That fits the narrative that people came up with, but I definitely didn’t see it like that. We were happily married through that. We would go go-kart racing after those scenes. We’d rent out a place and go racing at 3 in the morning. I don’t know what else to say. Maybe I don’t have the ability to look back and dissect it. Or I’m not willing to." Interesting!
