McGregor Denies Involvement With Kidman

April 19, 2001 -- Don't ask Scottish actor Ewan McGregor about his Moulin Rouge co-star Nicole Kidman's well-publicized marital strife.

McGregor, who was last seen opposite Ashley Judd in Eye of the Beholder, has issued a statement denying rumors that he had more than a professional relationship with the soon-to-be-ex-wife of Tom Cruise.

"I don't know anything about it — it wasn't anything to do with me," he said through his London agent.

McGregor isn't the only one to shoulder third-party blame for supposedly causing a rift in Kidman and Cruise's 10-year marriage. Kidman was also linked to George Clooney — who simply laughed at the notion — and her old Aussie flame, actor Marcus Graham (who also denied all stories).

Kidman, who suffered a miscarriage shortly after Cruise filed for divorce, made her first public appearance since the split at the celebrity-studded New York screening of Moulin Rouge on Wednesday. According to the New York Post's Page Six, the musical had just started at the Paris Theater when the screen went dark, prompting director Baz Luhrmann to promise guests it was being fixed — which it was.

However, today it was revealed that Fox has abruptly canceled all Moulin Rouge screenings and press appearances, which Kidman had pledged to attend. Gossip columnist Jeannette Walls said Fox's rep claims that junkets will roll after the film opens at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Sources say Rouge, which has already been shuffled several times, is still being re-edited by Luhrmann, while others believe Fox is nervous about the freakish film. "There is a concern at Fox that it might be a little too edgy," one source told Walls.

The film is scheduled to open in New York and Los Angeles on May 18.

Reuters contributed to this story.