1Sophie Turner
Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones adopted ‘Zunni’ (Sansa Stark’s dire wolf) after filming ended for Season 1 of Game of Thrones. The Dire wolves were played by a relatively new breed of dog known as the Northern Inuit Dog.
2. In 2008, a 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man was bought for $1.5 million by a New York businessman who said it will be kept from public view.
3. Miley Cyrus's first job was to pick up the bras and the underwear of her dad's (country singer Billy Ray) fans who threw them on the stage. She got paid $10 for it.
4. The idea for YouTube, in part, was conceived when the founders couldn’t find a video of Janet Jackson’s breast popping out during the Super Bowl.
5. Natalie Portman helped with the writing of “The Social Network” by providing inside information about social life at Harvard because she was a Harvard student at the time Facebook first appeared there. The lines “Who was the movie star?”, “Does it matter?” in the movie refers to her.
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6Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz changed the spelling of her last name to ‘Vice’ earlier in her career, but her agent said that wouldn’t fly as it sounded like a porn name. Weisz then went with “Vyce”, then “Kenya Campbell”, later admitting that that too sounded like a porn moniker.
7. Jennifer Lopez’s parents told her becoming a movie star was “really stupid” and that “no Latinos did that.” Fifteen years later, she became the first person to have a number one album and film in the same week.
8. Natalie Portman in an interview for Black Swan said “How do you get guys to a ballet movie? How do you get girls to a thriller? The answer is a lesbian scene. Everyone wants to see that.”
9. Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years and can play the guitar, drums, percussion, and harmonica. She also speaks 7 different languages, is the founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos and is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
10. The part of “Jackie” on “That 70s Show” asked for an 18-year-old girl. Mila Kunis, being 14, said she would be 18 on her birthday without specifying which birthday and won the part.
11Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron has an American accent because she only spoke Afrikaans at home before leaving South Africa at 16 and only learned to speak English properly in the US.
12. Before he started dating Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise invited a bunch of beautiful actresses including Scarlett Johansson, Kate Bosworth, and Jessica Alba to audition for a fake part in a bogus “Mission: Impossible” series, but in reality, they were auditioning to be his third wife.
13. Halle Berry personally accepted her Razzie award for Worst Actress for her role in Catwoman. Her acceptance speech included the line “First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of sh*t, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.”
14. When Barbra Walters interviewed Miley Cyrus in her home in 2008, the camera crew managed to clog all of Miley’s toilets. Instead of getting angry, Miley and her family later sent Barbra a golden toilet figurine reading “So you’ll always remember the Cyrus family.”
15. Salma Hayek as a young teen went to a church that was known for performing miracles and wished for breasts.
16Kate Winslet
All of the sketches in Titanic were actually drawn by James Cameron himself, including the famous nude sketch of Kate Winslet.
17. Actress Winona Ryder was bullied in high school for her 'tomboy' appearance. Years later, one of her bullies asked her for an autograph. “I asked her if she remembered me and she said that she sort of remembered beating a kid up. I said to her, ‘Yeah, well that was me so go fuck yourself.’”
18. Rose Leslie who played Ygritte in Game of Thrones, grew up in Lickleyhead Castle, her family’s 15th-century ancestral seat in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is a descendant of Charles II.
19. Emma Stone convinced her parents to let her drop out of school and move to LA to pursue her acting career by presenting her business savvy father with a full PowerPoint presentation set to Madonna’s “Hollywood.”
20. On the sets of Titanic, after finding out that she had to be naked in front of Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet decided to break the ice, and when they first met, she flashed him.
21Carrie Fisher
Princess Leia's iconic metal bikini was inspired by Carrie Fisher’s complaints that the loose-fitting outfits she wore in the Star Wars concealed her feminine physique.
22. Katy Perry’s dad used to manufacture and sell acid with Timothy Leary, and her mom once dated Jimi Hendrix. Both of them are now Pentecostal pastors.
23. Actress Katherine Heigl has made the lowest-grossing movie of all time called Zyzzyx Road in 2006, which grossed $30 in its opening weekend and $10 of that was refunded, so the final domestic box-office gross was just $20.
24. After she posed nude in Playboy at age 19, Drew Barrymore received a quilt from her godfather Steven Spielberg for her 20th Birthday with a note that read, ‘Cover Yourself Up.’
25. In 1995, during her marriage ceremony with Jenny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie wore black leather pants and a white top with Jonny's name scribbled in her own blood. The couple divorced in 1999. During her second marriage with actor Billy Bob Thornton, they both signed their wills in blood in 2001. They both also used to carry around one another’s blood in vials around their necks. That union lasted until 2003. Although Brad Pitt and Jolie frequently said that they would not get married until gay marriage was legalized all over the United States, they got engaged in 2012 and married in the summer of 2014. After two years of marriage, the couple separated in September 2016.
