Nicole Kidman And Tom Cruise's Relationship (part #3)
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman seemed like a match made in heaven. How did it all go so wrong?
Having met while making Days of Thunder, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman played on-screen
lovers yet again in the 1992 romance Far and Away — notable for featuring some of the
worst Irish accents in cinematic history.
But it was the power couple's third and final on-screen pairing that truly sent the media
into a frenzy.
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut was renowned for its eroticism.
A short, steamy promo featuring the couple passionately kissing while watching each other in a mirror understandably caused a stir upon release.
The film's shoot, which was supposed to last 6 months but ended up taking 15 months, provided
an uncomfortable lens into the couple's marriage.
Speaking about the lines between reality and fiction becoming blurred for the movie, Kidman
told The Hollywood Reporter,
"used the movie as a provocation, pretending it was our sex life — which we
weren't oblivious to, but obviously, it wasn't us."
The new millennium would spell the beginning of the end of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage.
In 2000, Cruise began filming Vanilla Sky with Penelope Cruz, and soon after he was
seen getting cozy with his enigmatic co-star.
However, some thought the timeline of the hook-up seemed suspect.
Cruise didn't divorce Kidman until 2001, despite having spent the entirety of the Vanilla Sky
shoot with Cruz.
There were rumors that the duo had begun a tryst on set.
When Kidman heard of the alleged affair, she was reportedly devastated.
An insider told People,
"Nicole was just totally in shock.
She said, 'He flat-out swore to me up and down that there was nothing going on.'
All this time she's been wondering why the marriage ended, and this could be it."
The new couple made it red carpet official just a week after Cruise and Kidman had announced
their divorce.
Still, Cruz has repeatedly maintained that the pair never had an affair.
Speaking with The Telegraph in 2008, the Spanish star insisted that she waited until her former
boyfriend was divorced before catching feelings.
Meanwhile, Cruise vehemently denied an affair when speaking to CNN, but admitted that he
was incredibly attracted to Cruz during filming.