“I was going to call him on his last night alive and I didn’t”: Nicole Kidman Had One Regret After Stanley Kubrick’s Death

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One of the greatest visionary directors that Hollywood had the privilege of hosting, Stanley Kubrick revolutionized the process of filmmaking for the foreseeable future. The director of such instant classics as2001: A Space Odyssey,A Clockwork Orange, andThe Shininggot around to claiming Tom Cruise, the biggest movie star in the world, in one of his movies shortly before his death.

Although the collaboration was short-lived and tragically bookended, their project was anything but less than glorious. Their 1999 film,Eyes Wide Shut, categorized as an erotic mystery thriller, marked the end of an era – both for Kubrick and the deteriorating relationship between the lead glamorous couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Nicole Kidman Recalls Her Great Stanley Kubrick Regret

At the advent of her career, the Australian modelNicole Kidman, with her wild red mane and tall lanky figure, was considered a far throw from a career in film and television. ButStanley Kubrickwas not one to chase after looks. The director gave Kidman her big break in a film that established her as a movie star almost overnight.

After the filming ofEyes Wide Shutwas wrapped up and the cast was dismantled, Nicole Kidman revisited the days in the aftermath of the movie and her attempts to communicate with Kubrick on his final eve on Earth. During a Q&A before the screening of her filmThe Paperboyat the 2012 New York Film Festival, Kidman revealed [viaPage Six]:

“One of the worst things was, I was going to call him on his last night alive and I didn’t. Instead I got a phone call the next day saying Stanley was dead. It was one of my great regrets that I didn’t call him that night.”

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On 7th March 1999, Stanley Kubrick passed away at the age of 70 from a fatal heart attack merely 4 days after screening the final cut ofEyes Wide Shut. The film was released posthumously 6 months later on 3rd September 1999. Shortly after,Tom Cruiseand Nicole Kidman separated and within two years, the power couple of the ’90s were divorced.

Nicole Kidman Cannot Forget Her First Kubrick Meeting

Despite the marvelous creative brain power that went behind all of Stanley Kubrick’s oeuvre,Eyes Wide Shutremains one of his greatest. His massive deviation from depicting the horror of man and the sadism of the future was shunned in favor of a more realistic film.

Kidman, recalling the first time she met with Stanley Kubrick, reminisced:

“Tom and I went to his house and had dinner, and I remember I was nervous. I was able to sit on the floor of his office and be privy to so many things. It was like having a great, great teacher. I remember thinking he was frail, and if I were more intuitive I would have realized that he was not well.”

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Despite Kidman’s regrets living on as a part of her memory, her performance inEyes Wide Shutwas truly phenomenal. Unfortunately, the film was not nominated for any Oscars, neither for acting nor for directing and film editing work.

Eyes Wide Shutis available for renting or buying on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Diya Majumdar

Senior Writer

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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.

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