Nicola Kidman says she believes Stanley Kubrick used aspects of her actual relationship with Tom Cruise to shape Bob and Alice in ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’

Did you feel like he was mining your own marriage to inform the relationship between Bill and Alice?

I suppose he was mining it. 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.

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