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Jimmy Fallon would like to forget his failed date with Nicole Kidman.
Unfortunately for him, “The Last of Us” actress Isabela Merced brought the incident back from the dead when she appeared on Fallon’s late-night talk Tuesday night.
“That’s gotta be one of the scariest video games I’ve ever played in my life, ‘The Last of Us,'” Fallon, 50, told Merced, 23, who plays Dina in the HBO series based on the game.
“Was that the game you were playing when you bombed your date with Nicole Kidman?” Merced responded.
The “Tonight Show” host was stunned by Merced’s comment as the audience loudly gasped. He jokingly tried to end the interview early, telling the actress, “It’s a pleasure meeting you. We’re out of time.”
“So was it?” Merced asked.
“No, we were playing Mario Kart,” Fallon clarified, adding, “But thanks for bringing it up!”
Merced admitted that Fallon’s 2015 interview with Kidman, 57, about their date is her “favorite clip on this show.”
“It’s the most embarrassing thing,” Fallon said as he covered his face with his hands.
“63 million people watched that,” Merced pointed out.
Fallon then overcame the awkwardness and shifted the conversation back to “The Last of Us.”
Over ten years ago, Fallon had Kidman on his show and they reminisced when their mutual friend set them up for a get-together at Fallon’s apartment.
Fallon explained that he didn’t know at the time that Kidman “liked” him and was interested in dating him.
“So I go over there, and you’re there in a baseball cap,” Kidman recalled. “And wouldn’t talk. You didn’t say anything.”
Fallon, shocked over Kidman’s side of the story, told her, “I was very nervous!”
“And then you put a video game on or something,” the “Lioness” actress shared, “and I’m like, “This is so bad.’ It was bad.”
She continued: “I swear, and you didn’t talk at all, and so after about an hour and a half, I thought, ‘He has no interest. This is so embarrassing.’ And I kinda left and went, ‘Okay, no chemistry.’ And then I was like, ‘Maybe he’s gay!’”
“I can’t believe I dated Nicole Kidman, this is fantastic,” Fallon exclaimed on his show.
“This is unbelievable,” he added. “It was one of the most awkward moments ever. I’m in shock. I can’t believe it.”
Fallon also told Kidman, “You made a much better decision. Keith Urban is so much cooler than I am.”
The Oscar winner has been married to Urban, 57, since 2006. They share daughters Sunday, 16, and Faith, 14. Kidman also has two adult children, daughter Bella, 32, and son Connor, 30, with her ex-husband Tom Cruise.
Fallon, meanwhile, married producer Nancy Juvonen in 2007. They have two daughters together: Winnie, 11, and Frances, 10.
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