Nicole Kidman has revealed she was warned that marrying her first husband Tom Cruise could have a deleterious impact on her career.
She was 23 when she exchanged vows with Cruise in 1990, the year she achieved her Hollywood breakthrough acting alongside him in Days of Thunder.
At that point, he was 28 and already one of the most recognizable movie stars in the world, having led the cast of such pictures as Top Gun, Risky Business, Born on the Fourth of July, The Color of Money and Rain Man.
Kidman, 59, was told her own professional life would be eclipsed by her association with a celebrity who was so much more famous than she was.
'I’m like: "I don’t care. I’m in love. I want to be married." And then I was his "wife" and they were like: "See, we told you,"' she told British Vogue.
