Tom Cruise shares rare comments praising the ex-wife Nicole Kidman

Tom Cruise breaks his silence on his ex-wife Nicole Kidman, more than two decades after talking about her publicly. The former couple of the 90s – who divorced in 2001 after 10 years of marriage – has since moved romantically, the cruise is now marrying, ex -wife Katie Holmes while Kidman made the knot with Keith Urban. However, the Top Gun: Maverick The actor proved that he was always one of the greatest fans of his ex-wife when he shared rare comments on work with Kidman when they were still married.

In a new interview with the British Film Institute View and sound Magazine, Cruise was full of praise for Kidman when he opened how the couple came to work together Eyes wide. In the 1999 erotic thriller, Cruise and Kidman play the married couple Bill and Alice as they fight with fantasies and infidelity – and according to the Impossible mission Star, he helped make sure that his wife was playing in front of him.

Recalling how he flew to director Stanley Kubrick, Cruise revealed that he had slipped into a casting suggestion while meeting him. “It was essentially him and I know,” said the actor Deadline. “And when we did this, I suggested that Nicole would play the role. Because she is obviously a big actress.”

Kidman has already talked about working on the film with Cruise in a 2020 The New York Times Interview, revealing that the couple would get rid of the great humor after filming by kart. “We were praising a place and reaching the race at 3 am,” she shared.

She also reflects with tenderness on the Eyes widened Filming process, including the way she and Cruise have established a personal relationship with Kubrick Offet. “We loved working with him. We turned this for two years,” she said. “We had two children and live in a trailer on the lot mainly, making spaghetti because Stanley sometimes liked to eat with us. We worked with the greatest filmmaker and learn our lives and take advantage of our lives on the set.”

Cruise’s recent comments about Kidman have been over two decades since he mentioned it publicly for the last time. In a 2002 interview with VanityThe star of the Top Gun – who shares the daughter Bella and her son Connor with Kidman – opened the reason for their divorce, sharing: “She knows why, and I know why. It is the mother of my children, and I wish her good luck.”

“And I think you are moving forward. And I don’t say it lightly,” he continued. “I am not saying that with anything. Things happen in life, and you do everything you can, and in all possible ways, and there is a moment when you sometimes have to face brutal reality.”