Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were one of the most beloved couples in Hollywood but a project hurt them.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were one of the most beloved couples in Hollywood. When they met at the end of the 80s during the filming of Days of Thunder, they fell in love instantly. In December 1990, a year after their first meeting, they were married in a secret ceremony, becoming their current marriage.
At that time, the Australian actress was only 23 years old and he was 28. Soon after they decided to start expanding the family by first adopting Isabella and then Connor. However, years later, the marriage began to fall apart. It has always been rumored that the conflict began when the actor was introduced to Scientology, but there was a movie that hurt them as a couple.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were proposed to star in Eyes Wide Shut, a thriller from director Stanley Kubrick. That very special shooting, the required scenes, and the particularities of the filmmaker ended up ruining the bond that one of the most powerful couples in Hollywood had.
The filming of that film began in November 1996, and became the longest in history, ending in June 1998. Everything lasted so long that it entered the Guinness Book of Records as "the longest uninterrupted recording of the history".
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had to move with their two children to London, because, despite the eve though that film's protagonists took place in New York, Stanley Kubrick had a phobia of flying and decided that his art team would recreate the city. In a study in England.
Then many theories about what happened on the set came to light. It was said that the director forced the actors to go to cabarets to learn about eroticism, he also made them attend psychoanalysis sessions, in which he was also present, and where several of the couple's secrets came to light.
Kubrick made Tom Cruise repeat a scene in which he simply had to walk through a door 95 times, and a one-minute s*x scene took Nicole Kidman six days to shoot. At that time she had to be completely N- and in quite uncomfortable and intimidating positions.
Apparently, all the demands that arose during filming caused some conflicts for the couple. On his side, the gallant had stomach ulcers due to the nervousness that he experienced on that set that he tried to hide so as not to delay time any longer.
Despite all the dedication and investment that went into making Eyes Wide Shut, the film was not momentous. What if it was is that days after its premiere, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced their separation without giving details about it or any kind of scandal.
Ironically, the one who could not find out about this event that marked Hollywood was Stanley Kubrick, who died four days before the news was released, after delivering the final edition of the tape.
