The Little-Known Roles Of Ten Big Time Celebs
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11:00AM, Saturday August 29th 2009
Isn’t it strange watching celebrities in movies made before they got famous? Think of young Leonardo DiCaprio in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”—who could’ve predicted he’d one day freeze to death in the ocean and enchant pre-teens around the world? Though his role was respectable, few other now-leading men have been as fortunate. Most of their entries into movies are probably as cringe-worthy for them as middle school yearbook photos are for us. But while the evidence of our journey toward adulthood is hidden in basements and attics, thanks to the wonders of the Internet (namely, IMDB), these celebrities’ rise to stardom is ours for the knowing—and ridiculing. Read more ...
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Ginger
wrote on August 29 2009 @ 10:26 am: [report]
Johnny Depp in ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ is still my favorite before-they-got-big role.
The article should have mentioned Nicholas Cage in ‘Fast Time at Ridgemont High’. He’s in it for all of five seconds as a fry cook.
LunaLena
wrote on August 29 2009 @ 10:28 am: [report]
That list was hilarious (particularly #10). I don’t think it’s particularly embarrassing, and I doubt it was his first ever role, but I’d like to add that Zac Efron briefly appeared in the TV series Firefly, as Simon Tam in his childhood. I just think it’s funny that he played such a low-key part, and then a few years later became a huge teen idol.
Ginger
wrote on August 29 2009 @ 10:30 am: [report]
@LunaLena That role was one of two things I have seen him in where I didn’t go “I hate you so much Zac Efron”. He was a good mini-Simon.
And he was also in a Lifetime movie about autistic twins. He played the one who just wanted to run cross country.
betty123
wrote on August 31 2009 @ 08:34 am: [report]
Did anyone see Family Guy last night featuring the squirrel rendition of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Hysterical.