1Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore started smoking cigarettes at the age of nine, drinking alcohol by the time she was 11, smoking marijuana at 12, and snorting cocaine at13. She was in rehab at the age of 14. A suicide attempt, also at the age of fourteen, put her back in rehab.
2. While filming a sword fight in Elektra (2005), Jennifer Garner accidentally got her knuckles sliced by Will Yun Lee. She got her knuckles patched up and when she and Lee resumed, he subsequently sliced her again in the exact same spot.
3. After Tom Cruise called Brooke Shields ‘irresponsible’ for claiming that she medically cured her postpartum depression, she responded: “Tom should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment options are best for them.”
4. In response to criticism towards Hit-Girl’s character, Chloë Grace Moretz stated in an interview, “If I ever uttered one word that I said in Kick-Ass, I would be grounded for years! I’d be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that. I’m an average, everyday girl.” Moretz has said that while filming, she could not bring herself to say the film’s title out loud in interviews, instead calling it “the film” in public and “Kick-Butt” at home.
5. In 2005, Kate Winslet joked that acting in a Holocaust movie guarantees an Oscar. Four years later, she won her first and only Oscar for her role in The Reader.
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6Katy Perry
Before Katy Perry hit it big in 2007 with “One of the Boys,” she was a Christian artist under her given name, Katy Hudson. At the age of 16, she released a Christian rock album that sold less than 200 copies.
7. Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) does not feature in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy because her character was made-up by Peter Jackson. He met Lilly after he finished filming the first trilogy and liked her so much he promised to include her in Hobbit. When they started filming Hobbit, he called her to bring Tauriel’s character to life.
8. For her role in “The Brothers Grimm,” Lena Headey had to lick a real toad. She didn’t get a latex replacement. She did it and later commented that it hardly had any taste. The problem was with the texture.
9. Contrary to popular belief Marilyn Monroe was nowhere near a ‘plus’ size 12-16, she was closer to a US size 0/UK size 8.
10. Carrie Fisher wore no underwear in StarWars because George Lucas convinced her “there is no underwear in outer space.”
11Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun when she was younger.
12. Helena Bonham Carter’s maternal grandfather Eduardo Propper de Callejón saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.
13. After being in Batman Begins, Katie Holmes turned down the offer to reprise her role as Rachel Dawes in “The Dark Knight”, in order to be in “Mad Money.”
14. Kate Winslet wore a pubic wig for her role in “The Reader” because she couldn't grow enough hair down there for an authentic 1950s style.
15. A kissing scene while filming Noah was shot in so many repeated takes that Emma Watson was left with bleeding lips and Douglas Booth was nursing a sore nose and swollen mouth.
16Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank was paid only $75 per day for “Boys Don’t Cry” due to which she didn’t even qualify for health insurance.
17. Halle Berry was actually named after a department store. The actress was born Maria Halle Berry and her parents chose her middle name (which became her stage name) as a tribute to Halle’s Department Store, a local Cleveland landmark.
18. According to actor Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence would purposely eat foods with garlic or tuna fish before any kissing scenes between the two, while filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
19. Singer Lana Del Rey called feminism boring. She said, “For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.”
20. Emma Watson almost wasn’t Hermione in the Half-Blood Prince. She had considered not returning but decided that she wouldn’t be able to watch someone else play Hermione.
21Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana nearly broke Chris Pratt’s ribs while filming a fight sequence in the Guardians of the Galaxy. During training, Pratt and Saldana would wear protective gear. However, while filming the actual scene, Pratt forgot to wear his protective gear and Saldana kicked him square in the ribs, which made Pratt fall to the ground. According to him, he had a bruise for the remainder of filming.
22. Pamela Anderson got some press coverage right after her birth as the country’s Centennial Baby, having been the first baby born on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Canada’s official founding via the Constitution Act, 1867.
23. Carrie Underwood gives her phone number to the two American Idol finalists every year but never gets called.
24. Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey in Friends, admitted in the exit interview for the book “Friends… Til’ the End”, that he had a crush on Jennifer Aniston who plays Rachel. He said, “Now I had a little crush on Jen in the very beginning, but I think the world did too, so what are you going to do?”
25. While filming the piranha tank scene in ‘Now You See Me,’ Isla Fisher was running out of air and tried to swim to the top (which was open), but the chains on the handcuffs she was wearing got stuck on the bottom of the tank. She attempted to alert the crew by hitting the glass tank, but they thought she was acting because her character was supposed to be panicked and scared. The stunt coordinator finally realized something was wrong and helped her.
