The late Stanley Kubrick was renowned for his perfectionism and at times seemingly endless takes. His last film ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ was little different shooting for a monumental 400 days and the Stanley Kubrick rules for Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman who starred in the film has recently been spoken about by Kidman.
At the time Kidman was in her twenties and married to Cruise who were Hollywood’s A-list couple and and Kubrick spent a lot of time with the couple insisting that they did not “put him on a pedestal.” The three became comfortable enough with one another that the two actors were comfortable throwing in ideas and improvising during filming, she says.
Their marriage was obvious territory to use for their roles, “I suppose he was mining it,” Kidman says. “There were ideas he was interested in. He’d ask a lot of questions. But he had a strong sense of the story he was telling. I do remember him saying, ‘Triangles are hard. You have to tread carefully when it’s a triangle.’ Because one person could feel ganged up on. But he was aware of that and knew how to manage us.”
Stanley Kubrick rules for Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman demanded that the three be on the same level — “that kind of [hierarchical] thinking hinders the creative process” Kidman recalls him saying — had a couple of other rules: no immediate “no” answers and no asking the director “why” the characters are doing or saying anything. “He didn’t want sycophants. … And everyone has to wait at least 10 seconds before they say no to an idea. I heard that, and I’m in my 20s, and I’m like, ‘OK. It’s on.’” she reveals. “It was experimental, like making student films in Australia.”
Two and a half years after the Eyes Wide Shut shoot began Kubrick screened a cut for Kidman, Cruise and some Warner Bros. executives. He died six days later.
Given that it was such a lengthy production, one that took Kidman off the market in Hollywood for years just as her career was beginning, would she do it all again? “I would have stayed a third year,” she says. “Does that mean I’m crazy?”
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source : The Hollywood reporter
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