Tom Cruise Says He ‘Suggested’ Stanley Kubrick Cast Nicole Kidman in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’: ‘Obviously She’s a Great Actress’

If it weren’t for Tom Cruise, someone else might have played Alice in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 erotic thriller “Eyes Wide Shut.”

In a rare interview with Sight and Sound (via Us Weekly), Cruise said when he first met with the prolific director to discuss what would be his final film, he suggested his wife at the time, Nicole Kidman, play the freespirted Alice Harford opposite his repressed New York socialite, Bill Harford.

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