Kidman avoids Cruise-Holmes romance
Nicole Kidman, star of the upcoming movie Bewitched, is careful not to cast judgment on ex-husband Tom Cruise’s relationship with younger actress Katie Holmes.
When asked in early May about Cruise’s very public romance with Holmes, Kidman didn’t address the subject directly. However, when asked about photographic publicity stunts in general, Kidman tells Vanity Fair in its July issue, “In terms of your life, if you start to exploit it, then what’s real, and what's not? What’s yours, and what isn’t?”
Kidman and Cruise divorced in 2001 after almost 10 years of marriage.
“When it all exploded and we were in Cannes with Moulin Rouge… my sister and I slept in the same bed together. She would just hold me,” Kidman told Vanity Fair.
“When we came out of the big screening and there were swarms of people, I felt like I couldn’t breathe. So I just sort of eyeballed her as if to say: ‘Help! Help!’ Taking absolute control, she took me into the bathroom, unlaced my corset and the dress I was wearing, took my shoes off, and said: ‘You’re going to be OK’.”
Cruise and Holmes were photographed together in Rome in April and later confirmed they were dating.
Meanwhile, Holmes said she was more in love with Cruise with each passing day.
“I’ve got to tell you, the most extraordinary thing happened to me one day in April when I met Tom,” she told syndicated TV show Access Hollywood. “I’m more and more in love every day. It’s like, wow.”
The 26-year-old actress also said she enjoyed Cruise’s profession of love on The Oprah Winfrey Show last month. “I sat there and saw that and said: ‘I am the luckiest woman in the world’.”
A starry-eyed Cruise went down on his knees and repeatedly jumped up on the talk-show host’s couch, saying his love for Holmes was “beyond cool”.
When asked if she felt hesitant about joining Cruise in front of the show’s audience when he went backstage for her, Holmes replied, “I was excited. … When Tom calls for me, I’m coming.”
“I miss him right now,” she said, “and it’s been like one hour.”
At the taping of the 2005 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, Holmes poked fun at Cruise’s Oprah appearance by dropping down on one knee and asking the crowd: “Should I go get him?” Cruise laughed as he accepted a lifetime achievement award from Holmes.
Cruise is starring in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming War of the Worlds and Holmes will co-star with Christian Bale in Batman Begins.
