Tom Cruise spoke publicly about his ex-wife Nicole Kidman to Vanity Fair in 2002, just a year after the former couple’s divorce, and hasn’t said much since. At the time, the magazine asked Cruise why he and Kidman had split, and the “Mission: Impossible” star responded vaguely, insisting twice to the outlet that Kidman “knows why.”

Tom Cruise made rare comments about ex-wife Nicole Kidman in a new interview for the British Film Institute's 'Sight and Sound' magazine. The former couple, who share two kids, was married from 1990 to 2001.

Cruise said when he first met with the prolific director to discuss what would be his final film, he suggested his wife at the time, Nicole Kidman, play the freespirted Alice Harford opposite his repressed New York socialite,