Jay Leno Air's Jackson Early Ad

07 September 2005

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PULP FICTION star SAMUEL L JACKSON was forced to relive his first ever TV commercial on Tuesday night (06SEP05), after comedian JAY LENO paid "thousands" of dollars to track it down. Jackson appeared on Leno's chat show to promote his new movie THE MAN, when the funnyman - notorious for digging up stars' old works - proudly unveiled the actor's ad for Crystal Hamburgers. Leno told Jackson, "I found something that I've been looking for easily (for) 10 years, really hard the last six years... The quality of this is so poor but it cost me thousands. I said to the guy, 'I don't care how much it costs, just send it to me.' After watching the black-and-white commercial twice, Jackson admitted, "That commercial validated my being an actor to my mom and all her friends, 'cause all those years I was gone, I was doing theatre, they'd go, 'You say you're an actor, well why don't you go apply for one of those jobs on a soap opera?' Like you could just go and make an application or something! "And then when this came on, my mom's phone blew up"Meanwhile another embarressed actor JOSEPH FIENNES finds filming sex scenes anything but arousing. The 35-year-old star of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE find it difficult to get turned on during raunchy scenes when surrounded by a whole film crew. He explains, "With 20 hairy-arsed sparks standing around, I never (get aroused). Take after take kills any desire.

"Like most actors I wonder whether it's really necessary for all the full-frontals and the tits-out stuff because most of it goes on the cutting-room floor in order to lower the certificate."

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