United Kingdom, May 27 -- Amanda Peet once faked being a waitress to get a job in an Italian restaurant.

The 53-year-old actress "made up" a name for a restaurant in San Francisco and put her then-boyfriend's phone number "as the reference" to land the job, but the 'Your Friends and Neighbors' star soon got fired after she warmed bread in the pizza oven.

Amanda told PEOPLE magazine: "I had never waitressed, so I put that I had and then made up a restaurant that was in San Francisco, even though I was from New York, and then gave my boyfriend's number as the reference.

"Then, on my first day, it was like an Italian restaurant where they had a pizza oven.

"A lovely couple whose table I was assigned to asked me if I could warm the bread,...