Todd Field on 'Eyes Wide Shut' and His First Meeting with Stanley Kubrick: 'I Know Who the F**k You Are, I Hired You'

"Welcome to IndieWire's "Eyes Wide Shut" Week. The password is, of course, "fidelio," but we've already taken care of admittance, inviting you into five days of stories celebrating Stanley Kubrick's swan-song masterpiece from 1999. Criterion Collection has just unveiled its 4K restoration of the classic erotic mystery starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and it now looks better than ever, gloriously, at home."

"Way before Todd Field became the acclaimed director of "In the Bedroom," "Little Children," and "TÁR" - one of the best runs ever for any filmmaker - the AFI Conservatory graduate starred as Nick Nightingale in Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut." He played Nick Nightingale, a pianist and former college friend of Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise), who is summoned to a mass orgy of the elite somewhere ominously outside New York City."

Stanley Kubrick's 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut received a Criterion Collection 4K restoration supervised by cinematographer Larry Smith. The restoration accompanies interviews with director of photography Larry Smith, second unit cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed, editor Nigel Galt, set decorator Lisa Leone, and actor Todd Field. Todd Field portrayed Nick Nightingale, a masked pianist who performs at an elite orgy and is a former college friend of Dr. Bill Hartford. Field traveled between the United Kingdom and the United States from 1996 to 1998 to complete shooting and performed limited piano parts himself for the role.

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