The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a>. Kidman tapped cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth and screenwriter Billy Ray for the pro bono project, appealing to their desire to help struggling movie theaters during the pandemic.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018Should we do this? We need to help the theaters.’ It was during COVID when we did it,” Kidman continued. “The crew that I was working with on Being the Ricardos\u2014I said, \u2018Would you guys be willing to do this?\u2019\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Nicole Kidman appearing on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ on Monday, March 2, 2026.<\/p>\n
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In hindsight, the commercial\u2014which shows a pinstripe suit-clad Kidman eating popcorn\u2014has since become a viral meme. \u201cWe come to this place for magic. We come to AMC theater to love, to cry, to care. Because we need that\u2014all of us,” she said, before finishing with the famous line: “Heartbreak feels good in a place like this.”<\/p>\n
While Kidman might not have gotten monetary compensation for her appearance in the AMC ad, it gave her internet notoriety and cool mom status with her lookalike daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret.\n<\/p>\n
Nicole Kidman is seen leaving ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ on December 16, 2024 in New York City.<\/p>\n
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After the Olivia Rodrigo posted a TikTok video recreating the clip on her Guts World Tour in 2024, Kidman shared it to her own Instagram Stories, with the comment: \u201cYou just won me some major points with my girls! Adore you @oliviarodrigo xx.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman says she was paid “nothing” for her iconic AMC ad.The Babygirl actress starred in the commercial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-328964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}