11-05-2025
Tom Cruise Breaks His Silence on Nicole Kidman
It's been 24 years since Tom Cruise divorced Nicole Kidman and he rarely speaks about her — until now.
The former dynamic duo was married from 1990 until 2001 and shared two children, Isabella, 32, and Connor, 30. After meeting on the set of Days of Thunder in 1990, they took their storied romance to the red carpet, becoming one of the biggest power couples in Hollywood.
In 1999, their long-awaited film, Eyes Wide Shut, about a Manhattan doctor who embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of infidelity comes to light, was finally released. While the movie was a genuinely happy experience for them with director Stanley Kubrick, their marriage broke down shortly thereafter.
Now, Cruise is breaking his silence about his ex-wife whom he rarely talks about. 'It was basically he and I getting to know each other,' the 62-year-old actor told Sight and Sound magazine, via Deadline. 'And when we were doing that, I suggested Nicole play the role [of Alice]. Because obviously, she's a great actress.'
The couple worked hard to get the "tone of the film" accurate, and the intimate set created a "very unique experience" for them. "We arrived in the summer and basically we just started testing ... the script was just an idea," Cruise continued. "We [were] constantly rewriting the scenes and shooting the scenes and then reshooting the scenes to really find the tone of the film.'
Kidman shared the personal side of working on that film in 2020 in a New York Times interview. "We would go go-kart racing after those [dark] scenes,' Kidman revealed. 'We'd rent out a place and go racing at 3 in the morning." She also spoke fondly about spaghetti dinners with Kubrick and their two kids. "We were working with the greatest filmmaker and learning about our lives and enjoying our lives on set," she added.
Kidman married country singer Keith Urban in 2006. They share two daughters, Sunday, 16, and Faith, 14. Cruise married Katie Holmes in 2006, but they divorced in 2012. They share a daughter, Suri, now 19.
