Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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Clint Eastwood was in a plane which crashed into the sea. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam 3 miles to safety.
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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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Johnny Depp travels with his Capt. Jack Sparrow costume to make impromptu visits to sick kids in hospitals.
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When he was 7, Vin Diesel and some friends broke into a New York theater with intentions to vandalize it. Instead of calling the police, the theater’s artistic director handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show. This became Diesel’s first acting role.
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