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David Arquette has had an impromptu Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the age of 40 during a trip to Israel.
The Scream star was there to shoot a segment for his travel show and ended up completing the Jewish rite of passage in Jerusalem at the Western Wall, the holiest place for Jews to pray.
Arquette, who recently split with former Friends star Courtney Cox, is the youngest of the five acting Arquette siblings: Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia and Alexis.
While their father became a Muslim, their mother was born Jewish, making the children Jewish under religious law.
Jewish boys typically celebrate their Bar Mitzvah at 13, the age when they are obligated to perform Jewish commandments.
While filming an episode in Jerusalem of his Mile High show, which airs on the Travel Channel, the actor attended a ceremony and was then asked whether he would like to have one as well.
Dressed in an all-white outfit, Arquette read his first Torah portion ever and placed phylacteries on his head and tattooed arm in front of the Western Wall, the lone retaining wall left from the second Jewish Temple compound.
"He was very emotional, saying he was happy to be part of the chain of the Jewish people," said Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, who conducted the ceremony.
"I'm very pleased to see a man who is returning to his roots."
Arquette, who has been elusive during his visit, later posted on his Twitter account: "I had my Bar Mitzvah today at the wall. Finally I'm a man."
