When a famed director thanked Kidman for taking Cruise's advice

Actress Nicole Kidman is thankful to ex-hubby Tom Cruise for pushing her to voice her concerns about a film's script she had liked earlier, but disapproved later after it had been overhauled - much to the actress' displeasure. Kidman feared she'd made a huge mistake when she arrived in Spain to shoot creepy film The Others after realising there had been a rewrite on the script she'd read.

"I read the script and thought, 'Great.' Then I went and did Moulin Rouge. I went back and read the script, and there had been a rewrite on it, and I thought, 'This isn't the film I wanted to make,'" Contactmusic quoted her, as telling The Hollywood Reporter.

The Australian actress admits the Mission Impossible star - who was then her husband - helped her voice her opinion to the movie's director Alejandro Amenabar. Kidman says she fought with him for two weeks in an effort to persuade him to rethink his script changes, which turned her character into a child-beating mother.

"I arrived in Spain and in this script, I am hitting a child - and I saw this film as being about a mother's love for her children, not her desire to kill the children. There was conflict for about two weeks between us (Kidman and Amenabar), and we ended up with a great experience together. (Later) he said, 'I am so glad you fought for that,'" she

"(Tom Cruise)He'd be like, 'Nic, go in and voice your concerns. Trust me, it will be appreciated,'" she added.