All of Hollywood seemed to be on tenterhooks on Tuesday night as Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were expected to cross paths for the first time since announcing their separation earlier this year. However, any fireworks were narrowly avoided as the statuesque beauty arrived at the premiere of her thriller The Others and entered the theatre 20 minutes before the Mission Impossible star hit the scene.
Nicole, who is already drawing Oscar buzz for her performance, emerged from a limousine with actresses Naomi Watts and Rebecca Rigg as well as the film’s director Alejandro Amenabar. She smiled at waiting fans and signed autographs before entering the cinema.
Tom, who produced The Others, arrived solo, and faced questions about his divorce, which was made final on Tuesday at the stroke of midnight. “Tell ’em to mind their own business,” he joked. “There are certain things I just don’t pay attention to. You just have to go one with your life.”
And while Nicole had earlier described the timing of the premiere as “bizarre”, Tom remained his normal cool self. “We’re here, we love what we do, we love films,” he said on the red carpet. “We feel privileged to be doing something that we enjoy doing. Tonight is the celebration of a picture that we all worked very hard on, and the performance that Nic has given is flawless.”
Nicole was praised earlier this week for another flawless performance in the Baz Luhrmann directed musical Moulin Rouge. She and co-star Ewan McGregor took home top honours at the Hollywood Film Festival Awards on Monday. The film is scheduled to open in cinemas across the UK on September 7.
Tom Cruise’s latest love Penelope Cruz was nowhere to be seen on Wednesday. And while he and the Spanish Enchantress have been dating of late, the Blow stunner has no plans on becoming the next Mrs Tom Cruise. “Getting married would scare me,” she says in an upcoming interview in Hollywood bible Vanity Fair. “That is always a scary thing when you open your heart to someone.”
Nicole has declined to comment on the Cruise-Cruz match-up. “I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister, I’m a real person operating in the world,” she told US breakfast programme Good Morning America earlier this week. “For me to sit here in front of millions of people and discuss the most private thing feels wrong.”
However, last week she did note one plus side to her newly single status, joking with US chat show host David Letterman: “I can wear heels now”.
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