Heath Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to prepare for his iconic role as the Joker in The Dark Knight
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Peter Cullen, the voice actor who voices Optimus Prime, also voices Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
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Heath Ledger asked Christian Bale to actually beat him for the interrogation scene in the Dark Knight.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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