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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In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both took part in porn.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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Peter Cullen, the voice actor who voices Optimus Prime, also voices Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.
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Keanu Reeves has a private cancer foundation to help children’s hospitals and cancer research, but he does not attach his name to it. He also has spent over 5 million dollars to help his sister in her fight against leukemia.
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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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