Nicole Kidman has revealed that she had a special clause in her film contract regarding her steamy sex scenes with her real-life husband, Tom Cruise.
The Australian actress, 57, starred alongside her then-husband Tom, 62, in Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut.
The couple shared some steamy moments in front of the camera and even asked Nicole to do full frontal nudity in the sex scenes, a concept she wasn’t too sold on.
In a resurfaced interview, Nicole said she had a clause written into her film contract that she would see all of her nude scenes before they made it to the final cut.
The Hollywood star said she didn’t want people to “laugh” at her for the nude scenes and felt protected because director Stanley put the clause in her contract.
“When I went to work with Stanley Kubrick, he said to me, ‘I’m going to want full frontal nudity,’ and I was like, ‘Ahh, I don’t know,'” she said. The New York Times Magazine in 2020.
‘So we reached a great agreement, which was contractual. He showed me the nudity scenes before they appeared in the movie.
‘Then I could feel completely safe. I didn’t say no to any of that. I wanted to make sure I wouldn’t be the one standing there naked and everyone laughing at me.
Nicole Kidman has revealed she had a special clause in her film contract regarding her steamy sex scenes with real-life husband Tom Cruise in the 1998 classic Eyes Wide Shut.
“I was protected, so I was able to explore a complicated marriage and the way Tom’s character (Cruise) has these images of jealousy.”
In Eyes Wide Shut, Tom plays Dr. Bill Hartford, whose marriage to his wife Alice (Nicole) hits a rough patch when he obsessively reflects on possible infidelity.
During a brief estrangement, he wanders the streets of New York City before becoming entangled in the dark games of high society elites.
The film includes a long sequence in which Tom’s character manages to enter a dance for rich masked men to indulge his sexual fantasies, before realizing that he is in great danger.
At the time of filming, Nicole and Tom were married in real life and had started dating after meeting on the set of the 1990 film Days Of Thunder.
Nicole previously said that Stanley ‘mined’ their marriage for material to develop Eyes Wide Shut, which became a box office hit after grossing $162 million against a $65 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo.
Nicole and Tom married in December 1990 and adopted two children together during their marriage: a daughter, Isabella, 31, and a son, Connor, 29.
In a resurfaced interview, Nicole said she had a clause written into her film contract that she would see all of her nude scenes before they made it to the final cut.
However, Tom filed for divorce in 2001, citing irreconcilable differences, and photographs of Nicole celebrating as she left her lawyer’s office after finalizing their separation became famous.
The following year, Nicole opened up about her painful separation from Tom in an interview with DuJour magazine.
‘I thought our life together was perfect. It took me a long time to heal. “It was a shock to my system,” he said.
“We were in a bubble, just the two of us. We became very dependent on each other. I was reeling with Tom.
“I would have gone to the end of the world for him… I was totally in love, I fell madly, passionately in love.”
Nicole has since found love again with country music singer Keith Urban and the couple share daughters Sunday Rose, 16, and Faith Margaret, 14.