A lot of the biggest actors/actresses weren’t born into a life of
stardom and fame. As weird as it is to think about, most celebrities had odd jobs or even full-fledged careers before they became
A-listers.
Here are some famous actors/actresses with no experience who got their big break by being in the right place at the right time.
Hugh Jackman had a pretty normal career before he took on Hollywood. He was a high-school Gym teacher at Uppingham School in
England. (check the above photo)
Jackman was once interviewed by one of his former students, Rollo Ross,
who became an entertainment reporter. When he recognized him at a red-carpet event in Zurich, Jackson said, “Rollo, I’m
sorry mate, but we go way back, I used to teach you at a high school in PE, and
I want to know how your physical education is progressing. It’s very important
to me.”
Today, Brad Pitt is one of the most recognizable stars in
Hollywood. But his career wasn’t always so glamorous, according to his
interview with James Lipton on “Inside the Actors Studio.”
After dropping out of the University of Missouri’s journalism
school two weeks before graduation to become an actor, he had to get odd jobs
to pay the bills. He ended up donning a chicken suit to hand out flyers and attract customers to
the chain restaurant El Pollo Loco.
Pitt also told Lipton he “drove strippers” as a job. In
addition to providing transportation for them, he said he was responsible for
various things throughout the parties, like playing music.
He said: “Then you had to catch the clothes so the guys didn’t
steal them as they came off. And then you had to try to collect the money at
the end and get out of there alive, and it was not always easy.”
It’s hard to imagine “Modern Family” star, Sofia Vergara as a dentist, but that’s almost where
life took her.
During a 2016 appearance on the talk show “Harry”, Vergara told Harry Connick Jr. that
she originally wanted to be a doctor before becoming an actress.
She said: “Being a doctor takes so much time, years of studying.
It’s difficult,” she said. “So the next best thing for me at that
time was to be a dentist. So I went to dental school, but I didn’t
finish.”
In order to make money for college, Amy Adams worked at the popular chain restaurant Hooters.
She said: “It was a great job out of high school, and I was a
hostess at first, and then I waited tables for a while, and it was great.”
