Her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, was at her side while she lived those moments.
However, she shared that Tom was the one whose “workload was much more” and “much more difficult” during the time they were filming Eyes Wide Shut with Stanley. Nicole even revealed that when she was supposed to be ready for the scenes, she would travel to Sydney or Paris. “I take my hat off to Tom, because it was like every day, while I heard, ‘You can go home and wait at the house ready,'” said Nicole. “And I was disobedient because after being on hold for two months and never be called … I decided, ‘Yes, I’m going to Paris for a few days.’ “
She said that Tom would call her home to see if she was home and a friend would lie on her behalf. But one day, the director realized what was going on and called her, only to learn that she was in Sydney, Australia. “Tom was like, ‘Aww, we’re screwed. You’re going to have to call Stanley,” she teased. “So I said, ‘Stanley, I’m sorry. Actually, I’m not at home, I’m in Sydney’, and he said, ‘Unfaithful woman’.”
Her experience with Eyes Wide Shut stood in stark contrast to his experience with Big Little Lies, that she hopes to get a third season. She said of working on Big Little Lies, “It was fine.”