By Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 06:11 GMT, 13 April 2013 | Updated: 15:05 GMT, 13 April 2013

He may be a Hollywood action hero but Tom Cruise certainly let his guard down for late night TV on Friday.

The 50-year-old actor played a game of egg roulette with Jimmy Fallon and lost.

Tom picked from an assortment of raw and boiled eggs for the gag, and found out soon in the game things were about to get really messy.

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Egg roulette: Hollywood star Tom Cruise had egg on his face during a taping on Friday of Late Night with Jimmy

Tom and Jimmy took turns picking from a carton holding eight boiled eggs and four raw eggs and smashed their chosen egg against their head. The game ends when someone breaks two raw eggs on their head and loses.

Tom went first and promptly smashed a raw egg against his hair, prompting Fallon to double over in laughter.

‘I told you I didn’t have a good feeling about this, man,’ Tom told Jimmy with a smile.

Jimmy went next and picked a hard-boiled egg.

Tom on his second pick again chose a raw egg and broke it against his head.

Eggscellent interview: Tom and Jimmy played egg roulette on the show and Tom lost

Elbow bump: Tom had egg on his elbow as he and Jimmy bumped arm joints

 VIDEO  See Tom Cruise lose the egg cracking competition on Fallon 

It wasn’t the first time that Tom and Jimmy squared off.

The two went eye-to-eye last December in a Water War game, which is based on the card game War and includes lots of water.

The winner of each hand got to douse his opponent with a cup of water and the first to run out of cups won the right to blast the loser with a toy water cannon.

Tom won and thoroughly drenched Jimmy.

The actor has been making the talk show circuit lately to promote his new sci-film Oblivion.

Couch circuit: The actor waved to fans on Friday as he appeared on the show

He visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night and also took part in a skit.

Kimmel gave Cruise an acting challenge by having him deliver ridiculous lines in a dramatic overtone.

‘Is there a way to get the soup and the salad?’ Tom asked as he was illuminated on the couch with a spotlight.

The Top Gun actor ended the dramatic query with his patented muscle-flurrying jaw clench.

In his new movie, Tom plays Jack Harper, a former Marine commander, in the sci-fi flick set in a not-too-distant future of 2073.

Couch potato: Tom appeared relaxed in his double denim look

Jack is stationed on a fallen Earth following an alien invasion 60 years earlier.

The actor’s character comes across an enigmatic stranger played by Olga Kurylenko who crash lands in a spacecraft and Jack is forced to question what he knows about Earth’s near-destruction and life as he knows it.

The film also features British star Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo and Morgan Freeman.

Oblivion opens on April 19.

 VIDEO  Tom Cruise stars in new sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion 

Denim look: Tom wore a denim shirt and jeans for his visit with Jimmy

Omelette head: Tom and Jimmy broke some eggs playing Egg Roulette

Jack Harper: Tom portrays a military vet in the sci-fi movie Oblivion based in a not-too-distant 2073