“In times when we couldn’t get it, it was just like, ‘Fuck!’” admitted Cruise. I’d say, ‘Stanley, I don’t care-tell me it’s going to be two years.’” “People were waiting and writers were waiting. “I remember talking to Stanley and I said, ‘Look, I don’t care how long it takes, but I have to know: are we going to finish in six months?’” said Cruise. “While the rest of us poor bastards are able to get 16 weeks of filming for $70 million with a $20 million star, Stanley could get 45 weeks of shooting for $65 million.” Though every six months Cruise spent in London cost him another $20 million film he wasn’t making-plus he had the fledgling Cruise/Wagner production company to oversee-he swore to the press he had no qualms about his extended art house sabbatical. “Stanley had figured out a way to work in England for a fraction of what we pay here,” explained Sydney Pollack, who joined the cast as the corrosive tycoon Victor Ziegler after the extended shooting forced original actor Harvey Keitel to cry uncle and drop out. Altogether they’d spend 15 months on Eyes Wide Shut, the Guinness World Record for the longest continual film shoot. Filming wrapped in January of 1998, but in May they were summoned back for more months of reshoots. Instead, they stayed on through the summer, fall, and another Christmas. When they landed in London in the fall of 1996, the couple fully expected to return to Hollywood by spring. Kubrick had asked Cruise and Kidman to commit to six months. The most major fact: Eyes Wide Shut was exhausting. The day-to-day life on set can only be inferred from facts and hints. Kubrick’s obsession with secrecy so infected his cast and crew that no one has ever spoken about it in detail.
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