A good thing about being Tom Cruise have to be that at any time when he needs one thing to occur, he’s most likely capable of make it occur. Even when it got here to providing casting ideas to a notoriously finicky director like Stanley Kubrick, Cruise managed to get his method, convincing the “Eyes Wide Shut” filmmaker to convey then-wife Nicole Kidman into the undertaking. Talking for an interview featured in the June issue of Sight and Sound (per The Independent), the “Mission: Inconceivable” star recalled touring to England to satisfy Kubrick for the primary time and pitching Kidman for “Eyes Wide Shut” then and there.
“I flew out to his home and I landed in his yard. I learn the script the day earlier than and we spent the day speaking about it. I knew all of his movies,” Cruise mentioned. “Then it was mainly he and I attending to know one another. And once we have been doing that, I steered Nicole play the function [of Alice]. As a result of clearly she’s a nice actress.”
As on most of his movies, Cruise’s mindset working with Kubrick was “no matter it’s going to take we’re going to do that.” The actor mentioned he felt that method even after a shoot that was purported to final “three or 4 months” ballooned to a year-plus as a consequence of reshoots and Kubrick’s obsessive consideration to element. Trying again on the work at this time, Cruise mentioned he valued it for the teachings he discovered and the way distinctive the movie continues to be.
“I believed the movie was very fascinating, and I needed to have that have,” he mentioned. “After I go to make a film, I do a lot of detailed investigation and a lot of time with the folks earlier than I commit in order that I perceive what they want and need they usually perceive me and the way we will work collectively and actually create one thing very particular.”
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times final summer time, Kidman additionally reminisced on her work in “Eyes Wide Shut,” having her personal reasoning for why Kubrick introduced her onto the undertaking. She believed it was her “boldness” that made her the precise match for Alice: the spouse to Cruise’s New York physician, each of whom arrive in the movie under-stimulated by their considerably tepid marriage.
“I suppose that was why he forged me. That mischief, that provocative nature, he discovered that out and it acquired extra imbued into Alice,” mentioned Kidman to the LA Instances. “The scene the place I drop the costume … that was me. That wasn’t written. That was my costume from my closet. ‘That is how I take off the costume, Stanley.’ As a result of I had a lot of garments, we weren’t paying to purchase garments. And Stanley had come over and I used to be exhibiting him all these lovely attire. That’s how that occurred.”
