It’s been 25 years since Nicole Kidman uttered her last words in legendary director Stanley Kubrick’s final film, a posthumous exploration of the mysteries of marriage and relationships. Keep your eyes open.
and Los Angeles Timesthe actress reflects on working with the filmmakers on the 1999 series, which she called “a career in itself,” and its record-breaking length.
Keep your eyes openAdapted from the 1926 novella fantasy novella Directed by Arthur Schnitzler and shot over the course of the late 1990s, The 400 began filming when Kidman was in her 20s; her co-star and then-husband Tom Cruise was arguably the hottest star in Hollywood. As Kidman recalled in the new interview, when filming began, the couple spent a lot of time with Kubrick — who was a living legend but asked them not to “glorify him.” For the altar.” The trio got along so well, she said, that the two actors were able to easily come up with ideas and improvise during filming.
But did Kubrick delve deeply into the couple’s marriage to extract their acclaimed performances?
“I think he’s mining it,” Kidman said. “There were some ideas that interested him. He would ask a lot of questions. But he felt very strongly about the story he was telling. I remember him saying, ‘Triangles are hard. When it’s a triangle, you have to tread carefully. Because A man may feel ganged up on, but he realizes it and knows how to manage us.
Kubrick rejected hierarchy during the filming process and demanded that the three of them be on the same level – “that [hierarchical] “Thinking gets in the way of the creative process,” Kidman recalls—and there were other rules: no immediate “no” answer, and no asking the director “why” a character is doing or saying anything.
“He doesn’t want sycophants. … Everyone has to wait at least 10 seconds before saying no to an idea. I heard the news, and I was in my 20s, and I was like, ‘Okay. It has already started. “It’s experimental, like making a student film in Australia.”
Talking about the film and her character, wife and would-be adulterer Alice, Kidman seemed able to conjure up her idea of who Alice was and why she ended up with a vicious monologue about her nearly being tempted by adultery. To please her doctor husband.
“Human beings are destructive,” Kidman said. “And you can never really know someone’s mind. You might know someone. You might not. It’s not something we want to hear, but it’s very honest.
Nearly two and a half years have passed since the incident occurred Keep your eyes open shooting Initially, Kubrick screened the cut for Kidman, Cruise and some Warner Bros. executives. He died six days later. Given that it took so long to make and that it took Kidman out of Hollywood for years at the start of her career, would she do it again?
“I’ll stay for a third year,” she said. “Does this mean I’m crazy?”
