--- description: “Do you think God could make a rock so heavy, he himself couldn’t lift it?” Stephen Colbert asked Nicole Kidman on The Late Show title: Nicole Kidman and Stephen Colbert Are Hilarious Together image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f01ede7baf2dc7e/6988e450e76ad24c0a62fcbc/stephen-colber-nicole-kidman-big-questions-with-even-bigger-stars.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Nicole Kidman and Stephen Colbert Should Ask Each Other Philosophical Questions All the Time by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 2, 2017 3:22 PM CUT  Stephen Colbert and Nicole Kidman in Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars. Stephen Colbert and Nicole Kidman in Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars.CBS by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 2, 2017 3:22 PM CUT Nicole Kidman got deep with [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/5007018/stephen-colbert-trump-jr-halloween-socialism/?xid=homepage "undefined") for the latest installment of “Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars.” On Wednesday night’s [episode](http://time.com/5007054/channing-tatum-jimmy-kimmel-halloween-prank/?xid=homepage "undefined") of _The Late Show_, Colbert and Kidman hung out on a picnic blanket, stared up at the (fake) stars and pondered some of life’s biggest questions, like when Colbert asked, “Do you think God could make a rock so heavy, he himself couldn’t lift it?” Kidman answered, “I don’t know. But why is he making more rocks? We have plenty of rocks. What we could use is another Oprah.” While cloning Oprah is probably still a few years off, [Colbert](http://time.com/5003837/billy-eichner-stephen-colbert-hocus-pocus-or-trump-white-house/?xid=homepage "undefined") and Kidman also shared their thoughts about what could happen in the near future. “Do you think artificial intelligence will ever conquer humanity?” Colbert asked, and Kidman replied, “I asked my Alexa that, and she just laughed.” Staring up at the (fake) stars got Kidman thinking about some of astronomy’s big questions. “What do you think happened before the big bang?” she asked Colbert, who replied, “Oh, I think fewer people watched CBS.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5007182/nicole-kidman-on-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5007182/nicole-kidman-on-colbert/"},"headline":"Nicole Kidman and Stephen Colbert Should Ask Each Other Philosophical Questions All the Time","datePublished":"2017-11-02T15:22:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:26.693Z","description":"“Do you think God could make a rock so heavy, he himself couldn’t lift it?” Colbert asked Kidman","url":"https://time.com/5007182/nicole-kidman-on-colbert/","keywords":["Newsfeed","stephen colbert","Late Night Television","Nicole Kidman","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f01ede7baf2dc7e/6988e450e76ad24c0a62fcbc/stephen-colber-nicole-kidman-big-questions-with-even-bigger-stars.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6f01ede7baf2dc7e/6988e450e76ad24c0a62fcbc/stephen-colber-nicole-kidman-big-questions-with-even-bigger-stars.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Stephen Colbert-Nicole Kidman","caption":"Stephen Colbert-Nicole Kidman","creditText":"CBS","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/5007182/nicole-kidman-on-colbert/","name":"Nicole Kidman and Stephen Colbert Should Ask Each Other Philosophical Questions All the Time"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Nicole Kidman Reveals She Was Once Engaged to Lenny Kravitz","description":"HBO’s new miniseries Big Little Lies is full of intricate relationships, but off-screen there’s a special connection between two of the costars","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/17nF1nMj/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-02-16T20:33:49.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/17nF1nMj.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5007182/nicole-kidman-on-colbert/","duration":"PT52S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5007182/nicole-kidman-on-colbert/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```