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Tom Cruise Praises Nicole Kidman, Pays Tribute To Val Kilmer, Lauds Movie Greats Jack Nicholson And Marlon Brando


Tom Cruise Praises Nicole Kidman & Lauds Jack Nicholson & Marlon Brando In Sight And Sound Magazine

Tom Cruise has spoken for the first time about how he suggested to Stanley Kubrick that his then wife Nicole Kidman star opposite him in 1999s Eyes Wide Shut “because obviously she’s a great actress.” He joins the ranks of other BFI Fellows including giants of the calibre of David Lean, Bette Davis, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Thelma Schoonmaker, Derek Jarman, Martin Scorsese, Satyajit Ray, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G Wilson, Spike Lee and Christopher Nolan. In the wide-ranging interview with Isabel Stevens, Cruise also talks movingly about working on the Top Gun movies with Val Kilmer who died on April 1.

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