Nicole Kidman missing from Tom Cruise career highlights montage at Cannes, according to reports

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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.Michael Kovac / Getty Images for Advanced Imaging Society / Jason Kempin / Getty Images
  • Tom Cruise was honored with a tribute video at the Cannes film festival.

  • The video featured footage from Cruise's decades-long career.

  • Nicole Kidman, however, was scrubbed from the tribute video.

Nicole Kidman was absent from a video montage that was projected at the Cannes film festival on Wednesday to celebrate the life and career of Tom Cruise, according to a report in Variety.

Cruise, 59, was a special guest at the festival, where he was honored with the 10-minute montage of highlights from his decades-long career at a masterclass Q&A event held with the actor shortly before he debuted his new film "Top Gun: Maverick" out of competition at the festival.

The three films Cruise and Kidman co-starred in between 1990 and 1999 ("Days of Thunder," "Far and Away," and "Eyes Wide Shut") were all featured in the highlight reel — but without any footage of Kidman.

Variety reported that while Kidman did not feature as part of the lengthy montage video, Cruise did discuss their previous work together at the masterclass event.

When asked about how he navigated the emotionally intense sequences in "Eyes Wide Shut," a film directed by Stanley Kubrick in which Cruise and Kidman play a married couple whose relationship is challenged when the wife admits that she contemplated having an affair, Cruise said: "We worked together to find the tone: [Stanley Kubrick], Nic and I," the outlet reported.

Tom Cruise in a tuxedo
Tom Cruise at the Cannes film festival.Dominique Charriau/WireImage/Getty

Cruise and Kidman married in 1990 after meeting on the set of "Days of Thunder," released that same year. The pair adopted two children together in 1992 and 1994, but after 11 years together, Cruise filed for a divorce in 2001.

Although Kidman has spoken about their marriage in the past, she recently said she is "reluctant" to do so. In an essay for New York Magazine in 2018, Kidman said she is reluctant to talk about her marriage with Cruise because "it almost feels disrespectful" to her current husband, Keith Urban. Kidman and Urban married in 2006 and have two children together.

Later on Wednesday, when Cruise debuted his new action-packed sequel "Top Gun: Maverick" at the festival's famous Lumiere theater, Cannes organizers awarded the actor with an honorary Palme d'Or — the festival's highest prize — for his body of work.

"Top Gun: Maverick" received a five-minute standing ovation from the crowd at the Lumiere theater, according to Deadline.

The film is set to hit US theaters on 27 May.

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