Six, eight weeks passed, and were wondering, Are we ever going to start?
And we just wouldnt start.
We were getting comfortable with each other, comfortable enough to throw out ideas.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999).Warner Brothers/Courtesy Everett Collection
For that scene, we improvised the beginning of it through the rehearsals.
She presumes the director found inspiration in their marriage while working on the scene.
I suppose he was mining it, said Kidman.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in Stanley Kubrick’sEyes Wide Shut. (Warner Bros.)
There were ideas he was interested in.
Hed 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 its a triangle.
Because one person could feel ganged up on.
But he was aware of that and knew how to manage us.
And Stanley liked women.
He had a different relationship with Tom.
They worked more closely together on his character.
Because I was married and I had my kids there.
It wasnt like I was rushing to get finished, to get somewhere else.
I was there, with Stanley, and I didnt care.
Whatever, she said.
