Lesser known facts about movie stars

Here are some interesting fact that i found for you

• Keira Knightley was Queen Amidala’s decoy in Star Wars: Episode 1 though the film was promoted as if Natalie Portman played both roles.
• Brad Pitt is banned from entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet.
• Julia Roberts is still the highest paid actress in film history (despite J.Laws $20m payday for Passengers).
• Actor Richard Gere attended the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship for gymnastics.
• Tom Cruise once enrolled in a seminary to become a priest but dropped out after only one year.
• The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made by Greer Garson for 1942’s Mrs. Miniver. She went on for five and a half minutes and is the reason actors have a time limit today of 45 seconds.
• Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
• MGM star Spencer Tracy won consecutive Best Actor Oscars in the late 1930’s for his appearances in Captains Courageous in 1937 and Boys Town in 1938. This wouldn’t happen again until Tom Hanks won back-to-back Oscars in the 1990s for Philadelphia in 1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994.
• Actress Demi Moore is totally blind in her left eye after undergoing an operation to correct a squint when she was a child.
• Christina Ricci was turned down for two roles opposite Leonardo DiCaprio including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Rose in Titanic.
• The title role of the 1971 movie Dirty Harry was originally intended for Frank Sinatra. After he refused, it was offered to John Wayne, and then Paul Newman, before finally being accepted by Clint Eastwood.
• Many of the sweaters worn by Mr. Rogers on the popular television show, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, were actually knitted by his real mother.
• For the blockbuster movie The Terminator, O.J. Simpson (aka The Juice) was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but producers rejected him as they thought he would not be taken seriously.
• Christian Brando, Marlon Brando’s son, murdered his pregnant, mentally disturbed sister’s boyfriend in a drunken rage. Brando and prosecutors reached a plea and Brando pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• At age 37 Jack Nicholson discovered that the woman he’d always thought his sister was actually his mother.
• Sean Connery wore a Toupee in every James Bond movie he was in.

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