Naomi Watts turns down dinner with Tom Cruise in old commercial unearthed by Jimmy Kimmel

Almost every actor comes from inauspicious beginnings. And as Jimmy Kimmel told Naomi Watts on his Monday show, “I��s a time-honored tradition on American talk shows where we dig up a commercial from your past and embarrass you with it.” Jimmy Fallon did it with Mark Ruffalo a few weeks back, and now Kimmel has done the same to Watts. The talk-show host unearthed an old commercial the actress did for Tom’s Meats, which Watts said was even weirder given she was a vegetarian at the time.

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The commerical features a young Watts winning a radio contest for dinner with Tom Cruise, only to turn it down because her mom’s making a lamb roast dinner. The commerical ends with a tagline: “Nothing comes before a roast lamb dinner.”

Watts didn’t know Cruise at the time, but said he’s aware of the commercial’s existence.

Watch the full clip below.