--- title: Nicole Kidman Teased Jimmy Fallon About Their Bad First Date description: Nicole Kidman took her appearance on the Tonight Show as an opportunity to tease Jimmy Fallon about their terrible first date. canonical: https://time.com/4576719/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon-date-video/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-18T18:12:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:49.916Z og:title: Nicole Kidman Teased Jimmy Fallon About Their Bad First Date og:description: "I so didn’t want to come back" og:url: https://time.com/4576719/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon-date-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37751e7509684e05/6988af100b72e31f156ebcef/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Nicole Kidman Visits "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nicole Kidman Teased Jimmy Fallon About Their Bad First Date twitter:description: "I so didn’t want to come back" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37751e7509684e05/6988af100b72e31f156ebcef/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Nicole Kidman and Jimmy Fallon Basically Relive Their Terrible First Date > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman and host Jimmy Fallon during a segment on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" at Rockefeller Center on November 16, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 18, 2016 6:12 PM UTC One of the most memorable moments in recent late-night television history was [in 2015 when Jimmy Fallon and Nicole Kidman awkwardly recounted a terrible first date](http://time.com/3657371/jimmy-fallon-nicole-kidman-dating/) that they shared together — as fate would have it, it wasn’t meant to be. However, Kidman and Fallon both revisited that brief, if uncomfortable dalliance on [_The Tonight Show_](http://time.com/4558451/benedict-cumberbatch-jimmy-fallon-mad-lib-theater/), where the Aussie actress told host Fallon that she “so didn’t want to come back” because of the awkwardness of her last visit to the show. Fallon was determined, however, to make it even more awkward by adding mood lighting and romantic music every time Kidman spoke. Kidman eventually revealed that she and Fallon had even more history together that involved running into him in the kitchen at a party at David Finch’s house. “We were at David Finch’s house, I think it was David’s house, and it was when Brad \[Pitt\] and Jen \[Aniston\] were still together, so it was a long time ago,” Kidman said. “And you could’ve asked for my number then ‘cause it was round two… and you still didn’t ask for it, and you know that’s true. So do not pretend!” Later, [Kidman’s husband, country singer Keith Urban](http://time.com/2882179/nicole-kidman-keith-urban-amazing-grace/) showed up to hang out with Kidman and Fallon. Fallon took the opportunity to ask Urban if he would ever invite Fallon to their house, to which Urban responded by saying that he didn’t feel threatened by Fallon at all, given Fallon and Kidman’s rocky romantic past. “Yeah, I feel quite safe because you have no problem ignoring my wife in the kitchen,” Urban joked. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4576719/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon-date-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4576719/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon-date-video/"},"headline":"Watch Nicole Kidman and Jimmy Fallon Basically Relive Their Terrible First Date","datePublished":"2016-11-18T18:12:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:49.916Z","description":"\"I so didn’t want to come back\"","url":"https://time.com/4576719/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon-date-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","jimmy fallon","celebrity","Culture","Nicole Kidman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37751e7509684e05/6988af100b72e31f156ebcef/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37751e7509684e05/6988af100b72e31f156ebcef/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nicole Kidman Visits \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\"","caption":"Nicole Kidman Visits \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\"","creditText":"Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4576719/nicole-kidman-jimmy-fallon-date-video/","name":"Watch Nicole Kidman and Jimmy Fallon Basically Relive Their Terrible First Date"}}]}] ```