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The Weeknd and Jimmy Fallon on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'
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The Weeknd and Jimmy Fallon on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'

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The Weeknd Says Tom Cruise ‘Lip Sync Battle’ Helped Him Score His First Hot 100 No. 1 in ‘Tonight Show’ Preview

His full interview with Jimmy Fallon airs tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET.

The Weeknd says Tom Cruise did him a solid with the actor’s lip-sync performance of “Can’t Feel My Face,” the singer says during his first-ever interview on The Tonight Show Thursday (May 15) in an exclusive Billboard preview clip.

Host Jimmy Fallon told The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) one of the first times his late-night talk show used one of his songs was in 2015 during a Lip Sync Battle segment featuring Cruise, who praised the singer as being “enormously talented” before launching into his performance of “Can’t Feel My Face.”

This article first appeared on Billboard U.S.

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