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.”

The former couple, who share two kids, was married from 1990 to 2001Tom Cruise made rare comments about ex-wife Nicole Kidman in a new interview with the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazineThe actor praised Kidman's acting abilities and spoke about how he played a role in getting her a part in 1999's Eyes Wide ShutCruise and Kidman,

Eyes Wide Shut centers on Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked when his wife, Alice, tells him that she contemplated having an affair the previous summer. He then embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey in New York City, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of a secret society. It was Kubrick’s final film before he died in 1999 at age 70.