Nicole Kidman Recalls Failed Date With Jimmy Fallon: I Thought He Was ‘Gay’!

Nicole Kidman and Jimmy Fallon once (sort of!) had a date, something that the late night host was shocked to find out when the actress stopped by “TheTonight Show” on Tuesday.

Nicole Kidman during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on January 6, 2015 (Getty)

Years ago, Jimmy got a call from a friend, who is also a friend of the actress.

“I’m walking down the street in New York City, and my friend Rick calls me and says, ‘Dude what are you doing?… I have Nicole Kidman with me and she wants to meet you to maybe be in ‘Bewitched’ or something… I can be in your apartment in 10 minutes,'” Jimmy recalled on Tuesday’s show.

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“I’m going, ‘You’re going to bring Nicole Kidman over to my apartment? What do I do?’ He goes, ‘I don’t know, just get some cheese and crackers or something.’ I’m like, I don’t have dinner parties, I don’t have anyone over to my house. I have video games and sneakers,'” he remembered.

However, Nicole’s version of their meeting was a little different than Jimmy’s

“I just remember I liked you,” the actress told the late night host. “Not now, I’m married now, but [our friend] was like, ‘Jimmy wants to meet you and you can go over to his apartment,’ and I was single.”

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Jimmy was shocked to find out he had been on a date with Nicole and had not realized it!

“Wait, what?” he said. “What are you talking about? Could I have dated Nicole Kidman?”

But when the Oscar winner arrived at Jimmy’s apartment, the mood wasn’t exactly set for romance.

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“Well I get there and you’re there in a baseball cap, and like — nothing. You wouldn’t talk, you didn’t say anything you were like, ‘Hey, mmm, mmm, mmm!'” she said.

“I didn’t say, ‘Mmm mmm mmm,’ I was nervous!” Jimmy screamed. “I didn’t know this was a thing, I thought it was for a movie or something.”

“Well it was like a hang,” Nicole continued. “And then you put a video game on or something and I was like, ‘This is so bad.’ And you didn’t talk at all. So after about an hour and I half I thought, ‘He has no interest, this is so embarrassing.’ So I left, and went, ‘OK, no chemistry. Maybe he’s gay!'”

Check out the entire awkward and hilarious exchange.

— Jesse Spero

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