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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 24, 2020 0:32:56 GMT
Elaine Miles She got the role of Marilyn on Northern Exposure (1990) by accident - she had originally brought her mother in to audition, but the producers decided they wanted someone younger for the part and cast Elaine instead. Accompanied her mother, Armenia Miles, to an audition for Northern Exposure (1990). Armenia went in to read for the part of "Marilyn." The show's casting agents saw Elaine in the waiting room and asked her to audition. From that reading, they gave her the part and cast her mother in the role of "Mrs. Anku." Subsequently, Armenia Miles was recast as "Mrs. Whirlwind" (Marilyn's mother).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 24, 2020 0:35:14 GMT
"After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did some acting and later summer stock, he signed a Hollywood contract with Columbia and later Universal. His roles in movies and television (Ironside (1967), The Virginian (1962)) remained secondary and, discouraged, he turned to a career in professional carpentry. He came back big four years later, however, as Bob Falfa in American Graffiti (1973). Four years after that, he hit colossal with the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Another four years and Ford was Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)."
so no .... Well if it weren't for George Lucas, no one would have ever heard of Ford. OP: By that I mean they didn't actually set out to become actors, but directors/producers decided to put them in a movie/show anyways.
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Post by Geddy on Sept 24, 2020 0:39:19 GMT
Well if it weren't for George Lucas, no one would have ever heard of Ford. OP: By that I mean they didn't actually set out to become actors, but directors/producers decided to put them in a movie/show anyways. OP also mentions "by luck" in the title of thread.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 24, 2020 0:45:23 GMT
OP: By that I mean they didn't actually set out to become actors, but directors/producers decided to put them in a movie/show anyways. OP also mentions "by luck" in the title of thread. anyway ... now we have more than just a name in the thread ...
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Post by Vits on Sept 24, 2020 9:24:23 GMT
Sharlto Copley initially wanted to work behind the camera. Neill Blomkamp asked him to appear in the short film that would eventually be adapted into DISTRICT 9. Neill and Peter Jackson liked his performance so much that they decided he should be the lead in the feature film as well.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 24, 2020 18:04:07 GMT
Tor Johnson
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Post by sostie on Sept 24, 2020 19:14:05 GMT
Both Buffy & Angel never looked for a career in acting.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was "discovered" by an agent as a child while out dining with her parents.
David Boreanaz was "discovered" by Buffy producers whilst out walking his dog.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Sept 24, 2020 19:17:05 GMT
George Lazenby lied about being an actor to become James Bond.
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Post by ck100 on Sept 24, 2020 20:50:42 GMT
I think maybe the guy who played Chief in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 24, 2020 20:53:33 GMT
I think maybe the guy who played Chief in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. "Sampson competed in rodeos (his specialty being bronco busting), for about twenty years. He was on the rodeo circuit when producers Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas—of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—were looking for a large Native American to play the role of Chief Bromden. Sampson stood an imposing 6'7" (2.01 m) tall.[7] Rodeo announcer Mel Lambert mentioned Sampson to them, and after lengthy efforts to find him, they hired him on the strength of an interview. He had never acted before.[8]"
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Sept 25, 2020 10:19:52 GMT
Danny Trejo was working as a youth drug counselor, a teenage patient asked for his assistance dealing with cocaine problems on the set of Runaway Train (1985). While there, Trejo was offered a job as an extra in the film's prison scenes. Edward Bunker, himself an individual who was formerly incarcerated and at the time a well-respected crime author who was writing the screenplay for the film, recognized Trejo, with whom he had done time at San Quentin. Bunker, remembering Trejo's boxing skills, offered him $320 per day to train Eric Roberts, one of the movie's stars, for a boxing scene. Director Andrei Konchalovsky liked Trejo's work and decided to offer him a small role in the film as a boxer.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 10:42:07 GMT
Ashton Kutcher:
Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, motivated by the desire to cure his brother's heart ailment. At college, Kutcher had to earn tuition money, so he worked as a college summer hire in the cereal department for the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids and sometimes sold his blood plasma. While at the University of Iowa, he was approached by a model scout at The Airliner bar in Iowa City, Iowa, and entered the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition. Placing first, he won a trip to New York City's International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. Leaving Iowa for a stay in New York City, Kutcher then returned to Cedar Rapids, before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.
So he was just luckily seen by a talent scout at a local airline bar while going to college to be a BioChemist
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 25, 2020 17:30:59 GMT
Lee Marvin was working as a plumber's assistant when he was called to fix a toilet at a community theater in Woodstock, NY. While there, he was asked to fill in for an ailing actor during a rehearsal. He did so and was bitten by the acting bug, and the rest is history. (For someone who played a lot of villainous roles, he certainly had a cute nose).
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 26, 2020 6:32:53 GMT
Edward Furlong was spotted by a casting director at a Boys & Girls Club.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Sept 26, 2020 19:13:43 GMT
Bob Newhart was an accountant before becoming a stand up comedian and then a TV star.
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