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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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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Until he turned 12, Robert Pattinson's elder sisters dressed him up as a girl and introduced him as "Claudia" to strangers.
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In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both took part in porn.
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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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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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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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