Celebrity couples have always fascinated the public. While in recent days pairs like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce or Zendaya and Tom Holland make headlines, in the '90s it was all about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. And hold the presses, because the Big Little Lies icon made some rare comments about that relationship and time in her life.
Despite the decades that have passed, the public remains invested in Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's years together. They've both had marriages since then, but there's something about this pairing that continues to turn heads. During an interview with British Vogue, the Moulin Rouge! star spoke about tying the knot with Cruise as a young actress. As Kidman put it:
Yeah, I got married so young. 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.’
Honestly, can you blame her? While Nicole Kidman was also an A-list movie star, Tom Cruise's starpower could not be understated... especially in the '90s. And while outside voices advised her against tying the knot with the Mission: Impossible star, she refused to listen. Instead she followed her heart, and the pair of celebrities got married in on Christmas Eve 1990. They would end up married for a decade before their eventual divorce.
In the same interview, Kidman went on to share how those same voices and naysayers continued weighing on her relationship with Tom Cruise after their nuptials. In her words:
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.'
Of course, that's not exactly what happened. Kidman has been working consistently for decades, so marrying Tom Cruise didn't kill her career. In fact, she'd gone on to win the Oscar for The Hours in 2002, just one year after the former couple's divorce. Of course the timing of this turned heads and made even more headlines at the time.
Nowadays Kidman is known for being basically the busiest woman in Hollywood, as she's constantly releasing new movie and TV projects. Seriously, when does this woman sleep? Just this year she starred in a number of TV shows: Lioness, Margo's Got Money Problems, and Scarpetta, each of which is on a different streaming service.
Nicole Kidman will return to the big screen shortly in Practical Magic 2, which arrives September 11th as part of the 2026 movie release list. As for Tom Cruise, his next big movie is Digger on October 2nd.
