The film has many times been blamed for the demise of her marriage to Cruise. The movie came out in 1999 and the Hollywood stars divorced in 2001. <img alt="Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/oct/tom-nicole.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 366px; " /> Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Pics/Santa Banta &ldquo;Onscreen, the husband and wife are at odds, and Stanley wanted to use our marriage as a supposed reality. That was Stanley: He used the movie as provocation, pretending it was our sex life. Which we weren&rsquo;t oblivious to, but obviously it wasn&rsquo;t us. We both decided to dedicate ourselves to a great filmmaker and artist,&rdquo; the New York Post quoted her as saying. The actress admits she was wary of the movie&rsquo;s blatant sexuality but felt safe while working with the veteran director. u00a0Kubrick was 70-years-old when he died of a heart attack in March 1999, just four days after screening his final cut of &lsquo;Eyes Wide Shut&rsquo;, which was based on a bizarre night-long sexual odyssey.u00a0

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Nicole Kidman has revealed that Stanley Kubrick based her and then-husband Tom Cruise's characters in 'Eyes Wide Shut' on their troubled marriage.

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