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.”

That 2002 interview was the last time that Tom ever talked about Nicole on record — until now. Marking the first time he’s publicly mentioned his ex-wife in over two decades, the Top Gun star recently told the BFI’s Sight and Sound magazine about his “great experience” making Eyes Wide Shut and working with Kubrick shortly before his death in 1999.

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.