Nicole Kidman said in a new British Vogue cover story that she was repeatedly warned about marrying Tom Cruise because it could hugely impact her career. The two A-listers met in 1989 during the production of Tony Scott’s “Days of Thunder,” which marked Kidman’s Hollywood feature debut. The duo got married one year later and stayed together for 11 years. Kidman credits the marriage and the immense tabloid scrutiny that followed with teaching her how to endure under the spotlight.
“Strangely enough, I feel comfortable. Is that weird? That’s so weird,” Kidman said about life in the public eye. “But you have to remember literally, because of who I married at such a young age, I was thrust into it since I was 22… [My life has been] more time like that than not. My memory of it not being that is quite blurry, because I was really young.”
“I got married so young,” Kidman continued about Cruise. “Suddenly I was 22, 23 years old and I had this huge movie star husband. But it just seemed completely natural. We just fell madly in love and it was that simple. I remember people saying to me, ‘OK, well this is really going to affect your career.’ 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.’ I’m like, ‘So what? I wasn’t meant to marry the man I love? Of course I’ll throw my career away. I don’t care.’”
