Nicole Kidman makes RARE comment about working with ex-husband Tom Cruise on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut - and admits they had to share a trailer to save money

Nicole Kidman seldom speaks astir her clip being joined to Tom Cruise, but she made a uncommon departure precocious while speaking astir their activity connected Stanley Kubrick's classical movie Eyes Wide Shut.

The 57-year-old Oscar victor — who was joined to Cruise, 62, from 1990 to 2001 — elaborate nan narration nan joined costars had pinch Kubrick while filming nan acheronian play successful an question and reply pinch nan Los Angeles Times.

She opined that nan head was 'mining' their matrimony for worldly to soma retired nan film, which premiered successful 1999 and became a container agency deed aft grossing $162 cardinal against a $65 cardinal budget, according to Box Office Mojo.

The Top Gun prima and nan Big Little Lies character spent years moving connected nan film, which began accumulation successful 1996 and wrapped successful 1998, earlier being released successful nan summertime of 1999, giving it nan grounds for nan longest continuous movie sprout astatine 400 days. Kubrick would dice astatine property 70 conscionable days aft showing what was reportedly his last trim of nan movie to its stars.

Kidman — whose daughter Sunday had a astonishing reaction to a segment successful which she gets stoned successful Eyes Wide Shut — described really nan Clockwork Orange filmmaker would quiz her and Cruise astir their matrimony arsenic he helped them style their performances.

'There were ideas [Kubrick] was willing in. He’d inquire a batch of questions. But he had a beardown consciousness of nan communicative he was telling,' she recalled.

'I do retrieve him saying, "Triangles are hard. You person to tread cautiously erstwhile it’s a triangle." Because 1 personification could consciousness ganged up on,' she continued. 'But he was alert of that and knew really to negociate us.'

Although she clarified that she ne'er felt 'ganged up on,' she did admit that Kubrick treated his actors differently.

'There’s thing astir being a female successful that equation, too,' she explained. 'And Stanley liked women. 

'He had a different narration pinch Tom. They worked much intimately together connected his character,' Kidman said.

She added that she brought her 'boldness' to nan character, though she clarified that her character's blunt statements successful a segment successful which she gets precocious was person to her earthy mode and not needfully related to drugs. 

While speaking astir nan scene, she recalled a information of nan larger series that they spent weeks filming, only for it to extremity up connected nan cutting room floor.

'It was nan segment pinch Tom and I wherever I commencement by smoking nan spliff successful furniture and wherever I laughter and present nan agelong monologue,' she said.

'That took galore weeks. A batch of that was rehearsing successful nan chamber and past [Kubrick] not liking what we’d done. So we ended up reworking it, constructing it arsenic we went along,' she shared. 'There was nary request to rush. Stanley would ne'er spell complete budget. What he bought was time.'

She added that nan segment evolved done 'just a batch of talking' betwixt nan 3 principals.

The character besides noted that their activity connected nan movie began pinch gathering astatine Kubrick's home. 

'We didn’t moreover spell complete to nan sets astatine Pinewood [Studios],' she admitted.

'Six, 8 weeks passed, and we’re wondering, "Are we ever going to start?" And we conscionable wouldn’t start,' she recalled. 'We were getting comfortable pinch each other, comfortable capable to propulsion retired ideas. For that scene, we improvised nan opening of it done nan rehearsals.'

Then arsenic now, Cruise and Kidman were 2 of nan biggest stars connected nan planet, and their matrimony only raised anticipation for Eyes Wide Shut.

But successful bid to spend nan extraordinarily lengthy shooting schedule — which included plentifulness of clip for nan notorious perfectionist Kubrick to sprout countless takes of multiples scenes — nan mates had to make sacrifices successful work of nan budget.

Instead of each getting their ain trailer, arsenic would person been customary for nan stars of a awesome film, they were forced to stock a azygous trailer connected set.

'We had a location 10 minutes away, but we lived successful that trailer,' Kidman recalled. 'Tom and I shared it because Stanley would say, "You’re not each getting a trailer. We can’t spend it."'

She added that her then-husband Cruise had a mini area to himself successful nan trailer wherever he would often play video games, including Minesweeper, erstwhile they had free clip betwixt takes. 

In Eyes Wide Shut, Cruise stars arsenic Dr. Bill Hartford, whose matrimony to his woman Alice (Kidman) hits a unsmooth spot erstwhile he obsessively ruminates complete a imaginable infidelity.

During a little estrangement, he wanders nan streets of New York City — contempt nan movie being changeable wholly successful nan UK — earlier uncovering himself enmeshed successful nan acheronian games of upper-crust elites.

The movie famously includes a lengthy series successful which Cruise's characteristic gains introduction to a shot for able masked men to unleash their intersexual fantasies, earlier he realizes that he's successful awesome danger.

Kidman and Cruise stock two adopted children from their marriage: Isabella, 31, and Connor, 29.

She later welcomed daughters Sunday, 16, and Faith, 13, pinch her hubby Keith Urban, whom she joined successful 2006.

Cruise went connected to wed nan character Katie Holmes from 2006 to 2012. They stock 1 daughter, 18-year-old Suri, who reportedly has small relationship to her celebrated father.