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Tom Cruise Says He ‘Suggested’ Stanley Kubrick Cast Nicole Kidman in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’: ‘Obviously She’s a Great Actress’
Tom Cruise said he 'suggested' Stanley Kubrick cast Nicole Kidman in 'Eyes Wide Shut.'
If it weren’t for Tom Cruise, someone else might have played Alice in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 erotic thriller “Eyes Wide Shut.” The film follows Cruise’s Bill Harford, an equal parts egotistical and anxious New York doctor who dives into the darkest depths of the esoteric Manhattan underground after his wife Alice tells him she is unfulfilled in their marriage. While audiences assumed parallels between the on-screen marriage of Bill and Alice and the real-life relationship of Cruise and Kidman, the latter told T he New York Times in 2020 that their union was nothing like their “Eyes Wide Shut” counterparts’.
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