Overview

• Tom Cruise publicly acknowledged his ex-wife Nicole Kidman for the first time in over two decades during an interview with Sight and Sound magazine.
• Cruise revealed that he personally recommended Kidman for the role of Alice in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film 'Eyes Wide Shut,' citing her acting prowess.
• The actor described the film’s production as a highly collaborative and iterative process, involving constant script rewrites and reshoots to refine its tone.
• Despite the movie’s themes of marital discord, both Cruise and Kidman have previously emphasized they were happily married during its filming.
• This marks a rare moment of public reflection by Cruise on his past relationship with Kidman, whom he divorced in 2001 after 11 years of marriage.