Jimmy Fallon still reeling from a 2015 interview Nicole Kidman. The 49-year-old comedian and presenter of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonspoke about the incident on a recent episode of 20 questions: About the deadline.
“Nicole Kidman completely blindsided me on my show,” he recalled of the viral moment. “We were just there to talk about one of her films or something she was going to win an award for. She was great and she looked great and we were talking and she said, ‘Did you know we were together?'”
Fallon added: “My face just melted. It was the most embarrassing thing.”
It happened when Kidman first appeared on the show and brought up her history with Fallon. Kidman recalled that she came to his apartment for a chemistry test and said that she actually came over because she had a crush on the comedian.
“I just remembered that I liked you. Not now, I’m married now,” Kidman said at the time, referring to her husband. Keith urban.
A stunned-looking Fallon stammered: “What? Wait, what’s going on? …Did I date Nicole Kidman? Did we go on a date?”
Kidman said the exchange occurred while she was casting as her on-screen love interest in the 2005 film Bewitchedwas catastrophic.
“You didn’t talk at all, and after about an hour and a half I thought, ‘He’s not interested. This is so embarrassing,'” Kidman said as Fallon put his face in his hands. “I thought, ‘Maybe he’s gay.'”
Looking back on the interview nearly a decade later, Fallon said he and Kidman’s husband Urban have had a lot of fun with it over the past few years.
“It was fun meeting Keith Urban at all these parties and stuff, who’s a really good sport,” the comedian shared. “I walked up to him at the Met Gala and said, ‘Hey, I think we might have been together before?'”
He also recalled a time when Urban urged Fallon to sit next to Kidman while she talked and hold her hand.
He did so and noted, “She was kind of rubbing herself and having this conversation.”
Fallon said Urban then walked over to Kidman and waved at her, causing her to jump up and look over.
“I thought, ‘It was his idea, it was his idea!'” Fallon said with a laugh.
Coincidentally, Kidman and Urban met in 2005, when Bewitched, which also starred Will Ferrell, came out and the rest was history. The longtime loves share daughters Sunday, 15, and Faith, 13, and have been inseparable ever since.
Fallon married Nancy Juvonen in 2007. The couple have daughters Winnie (10) and Frances (9).
ET spoke with Kidman back in 2015, shortly after she opened up about her feelings for Fallon.
“Everything that happened was completely real” she confirmed to ET by the time.
“People were texting me [afterwards]”Kidman said of the response. “People gave me shit like that.”
In the years since the interview, Kidman and Fallon have publicly mocked the exchange. In 2021, Kidman performed virtually The Tonight Showwhere Fallon explained: “I don’t like surprises. I’d like to know what’s happening.”
“Yeah, we know that,” Kidman joked at the time, prompting Fallon to dab his forehead with a piece of paper as the Oscar winner laughed.
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