Nicole kidman: 'eyes wide shut' didn't end marriage to tom cruise

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It's lengthy been thought that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage was around the rocks once they performed a troubled couple in Stanley Kubrick's 1999 sexual psycho-drama "Eyes Wide Shut," however in an essay for that Hollywood Reporter, Kidman sets the record straight.

"People believed that making the video was the start of the finish of my marriage, however i don't think it had been,Inch Kidman authored. "Tom and that i were close then, also it was greatly the 3 people. Onscreen, the couple are in odds, and Stanley desired to use our marriage like a supposed reality."

"Which was Stanley: He used the film as provocation, pretending it had been our sex existence - which we were not oblivious to, but clearly it had not been us. Both of us made the decision to dedicate ourselves to some great filmmaker and artist," she stated.

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Kidman accepted that they needed to overcome her hang-ups about a few of the movie's love moments.

"Stanley needed to coax me into a few of the sexuality within the film at first, but we shot stuff that were much more extreme that did not finish in the film. Used to do feel safe - Irrrve never felt it had been exploitive (sic) or unintelligent. He was completely different with females than he was with males. He's kids, so he was very paternal beside me.Inch

Kidman stated both she and Cruise were huge fans of Kubrick when they registered to create "Eyes Wide Shut." They spent 2 yrs just shooting the video.

"Tom and that i thought, 'We're so lucky, we have reached spend 2 yrs using the master.'"

It might be Kubrick's last film. He died in March, 1999, just several weeks prior to the film opened up. Kidman and Cruise separated 2 yrs later.

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Kidman spoke out earlier this year the very first time regarding their unsuccessful marriage.

"I acquired married really fast and extremely youthful," Kidman, who had been 23 when she tied the knot, told Australian magazine Who. "Then, if this did not exercise, I needed to really search hard and discover all things in depression. I've no regrets about everything. It had been a part of becoming an adult."

Kidman, 45, stated a part of her depression originated from an lack of ability to get pregnant.

Still, she does not regret her relationship with Cruise because, "It got me Bella and Conner," the 2 children she and Cruise adopted together throughout their 11-year union that they known as "an incredible marriage for any lengthy period."