Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman: The Way They Were
usmagazine.comA true ’90s power couple. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman‘s romance didn’t last, but their relationship remains a subject of fascination for movie fans around the world.The Oscar winner and the Mission: Impossible actor met in early 1990 while filming Tony Scott‘s Days of Thunder, in which Cruise played race car driver Cole Trickle and Kidman appeared as his love interest, Dr.
Claire Lewicki. Some critics thought the film was too similar to 1986’s Top Gun, which also starred Cruise under the direction of Scott, but the romance developing between its two young stars quickly eclipsed any negative press.Less than one year after finalizing his divorce from Mimi Rogers, Cruise married Kidman in December 1990 during a private ceremony held on Christmas Eve.
The low-key event was attended by their family members and held in Telluride, Colorado.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“I was so young when I got married,” Kidman told Red magazine in 2016, reflecting on her marriage to Cruise.
The Moulin Rouge! actress was 23 at the time, while the Top Gun: Maverick producer was 28. “I look back now and I’m like, ‘What?'”Shortly after their wedding, the couple worked together again on Ron Howard‘s drama Far and Away, which hit theaters in 1992.
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