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And that was our next two hours much to my embarrassment," the actress revealed on the Graham Norton Show. Challenge: see how long you can to sit through this scene of Emmy-nominated actor Jason Bateman transforming into a wolf during a high school boxing match without laughing. Hey, we all have to start somewhere, right?

Allison Janney stars as a well-meaning teacher in this comedy starring Sandra Bullock —a film that didn't measure up well to audiences and reportedly made Janney so nervous that she threw up on the way to her first day of filming. Before appearing on Saturday Night Live in , Andy Samberg was just a struggling comedian looking for inventive ways to pay the bills. This is most likely the reason he accepted his first acting position in a Japanese Honda Civic commercial, a gig in which still haunts him to this day.

I freak out. I can't handle it," he told Adweek. As a child, Orange is the New Black star Laura Prepon pursued an acting career while living abroad in Italy, which in the end allowed her to land her first gig, appearing in an Italian Uncle Ben's Rice commercial.

I don't even know how me walking through the Piazza del Duomo sold rice, but it did," Prepon told Rolling Stone. Before he became the quintessential ladies man, actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was stepping outside of his comfort zone in his very first role as "Gay Karate Man" in the thriller Monaco Forever. In this scene, Van Damme attempts to flirt with Charles Pitt , who plays the lead, Michael, in the film.

Quentin Tarantino , long before making honing his one-of-a-kind directing style, attempted to become an actor.

In his first role, Tarantino appeared as an Elvis impersonator on a episode of Golden Girls he's the scowling one sitting on the far right, in the back row. Just a few years later, he struck gold with Reservoir Dogs. Though it wasn't the most glamorous first gig, Fishburne is still appreciative of the invaluable experience that it gave him in the industry. Yep— Jennifer Lawrence got her big break by serving time in a mascot costume in the television show Monk. The stint was short, but it eventually propelled her career and gave her enough experience to land subsequent major roles: in Winter's Bon e , Like Crazy , and, of course, The Hunger Games.

As it turns out, even Mark Ruffalo suffered from acne as a young adult—or at least he pretended to suffer from acne in this Clearasil commercial that witnessed the actor prancing around and applying the topical formula to his face with unrivaled ebullience.

Emma Stone's first breakout role wasn't exactly…human. This performance was easy to miss, by the way. Stone went by her birth name, Emily, in the credits. Though the couple didn't make it in the end, we still like to look back on the pair every now and then to fully revel in the bleach tips and nostalgia of the '90s.

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Read more. Read This Next. I'm normal. Latest News. John Carter Cash is carrying on their legacy. Fauci said this would be a "terrible tragedy. The Daily Mail reported at the time that the former Victoria Secret model dined with the actor and several other people at Sushisamba in Las Vegas.

However, we'd like to caveat this reported news to say that it is in no means an indication the pair were romantically involved. DiCaprio was believed to have been in a relationship with the actor in after they were seen on bicycles together in NYC that year. Following their split, it appears the pair left their romance on good terms.

Blake Lively and DiCaprio are believed to have enjoyed a whirlwind five-month romance in The pair were seen on a yacht together in Cannes, long before she married her now-husband and the father of her three daughters, Ryan Reynolds. It was pre-Instagram. She was documenting her life in photographs in a way that people were not yet doing,' he added. Vyalitsyna went onto marry singer Adam Levine, from whom she split in The Sports Illustrated model met Leo at a party in Las Vegas and had an on-off five-year relationship that ended in May It's thought the couple split for a brief time in I worked on myself [and] I grew up.

I didn't know what 'alone' was like. Today I know that a relationship can work only if you know you can be alone and you are not afraid. Today I'm not afraid of being alone. The model was previously married to Arik Weinstein and following her romance with The Beach star, married businessman Adi Ezra. She is now a mother to three children - Liv, David and Elle.

The couple dated for approximately six years, from through to , and enjoyed a relatively private romance. In her book Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life , the model opened up about realising she wanted to change her lifestyle during their relationship.

In the end, unfortunately, the answer was yes. The model married American football star Tom Brady in , with whom she has two children Benjamin and Vivian. Here the couple are during their visit to meet the Xingu Indians in the Amazon Rainforest in The pair went on the trip to raise awareness about environmental issues affecting the area.

However, Herzigova has since denied any romantic meetings. The pair were believed to have enjoyed a romance after DiCaprio allegedly saw her picture in a magazine and had his reps get in contact with her but, again, there have been no confirmation of such a whirlwind romance. The supermodel were rumoured to have dated in around the same time his hit film, Titanic , was released, and appeared at numerous parties together.

However, neither star has ever confirmed the romance, so perhaps the two were simply just good friends? Dicaprio and Moore were reportedly spotted together in before her split from ex husband Bruce Willis but that doesn't exactly prove they were a couple, does it? Moore and Willis separated in June and finalised their divorce in , remaining good friends and even quarantining together at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic with their daughters - Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.

The pair are believed to have broken up shortly before his film Titanic was released and he shot to international fame. The pair are regularly seen on holiday together and charity events. The actor even 'photobombed' Campbell's picture with 50 Cent. I had to get him a fire extinguisher, a bottle of whiskey, a lighter, and a gun. Out of any actor, I can't think of anyone who's got more memorable moments in cinema than Jack Nicholson. Jack never takes a single line straight on.

Never takes an emotion written in the script at face value. He brings terror into what you thought was supposed to be a light moment and makes a light moment out of a cutthroat vicious line.

He flips everything on its side. That's why some of the greatest actors in the world have gone a little bit nuts. They're saying to themselves, "What happened? You used to love me? You just have to realize that when you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. Marty's not afraid to sit there for days on end just to get a scene right. Most important, I trust him, which makes my job as an actor a lot easier. It was really very traumatic, and I don't say that about a film very often.

I went to places and unearthed some things that I didn't think I was capable of. It was like an emotional layer cake that just kept getting deeper and deeper.

But there was a lot of rejection early on, and so it never felt like, Hey, I've got something here. There was always an element of me that needed to prove something to myself. It's something I don't want to get rid of, because it's what drives me. I'm never settled and I'm never satisfied. We have the ultimate trust in each other and the best of intentions for what we want to do. I knew Kate before Sam Mendes [her husband] even met her.

So on the outside, it may seem strange to do a sex scene with a woman while her husband is directing. But it didn't feel that way to me. When the scene was about to start, Kate said, in front of the crew, "Wait, wait, this is totally weird". She turned to both Sam and I and said, "Are you guys okay? She said, "It's even weirder that you're both totally fine".

People would always ask me, What are the differences between Spielberg and Scorsese? All I could find myself talking about was the similarities. It's all part of that process of doing things that are daring to be accepted by your peers - and it's absolutely insane. You can enter a never-ending vapid hole trying to catch the next exciting moment without ever stopping to appreciate it. It can be a never-ending process of chasing something that isn't there. I went skydiving and my chutes didn't open.

Two of them. I was the most insane child you can imagine, pretty intolerable to be around. High-octane energy all the time, never wanting to focus on schoolwork. But my name wasn't me anymore. I was sort of this thing. Kate felt it, too. But a lot of the attention was on me because of the teenage girls who repeatedly went to see the movie.

I had the blond hair, and I was Jack Dawson, this heroic figure. So I set up everything in my personal life to rebel against that image in order to strip it down. I had a lot of fun stripping it down. But ultimately, that knocked me a few rungs down the ladder. Needless to say, when somebody felt a different way on the set of Titanic , there was a confrontation.

Jim had it out with them right there in front of everybody. He lets you know exactly how he feels. But he's of the lineage of John Ford. He knows what he wants his film to be. I remember sitting in a theater after it was done and being in awe. He got what he wanted. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho Stand by Me I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died.

That's a lesson. No, I have a production company that all stemmed from 10 years ago wanting to be able to develop my own material because I just wasn't finding things I got excited about. It all stemmed from Gangs of New York and searching that out and saying, "Well, if I was able to search this out and I got to be able to work with Martin Scorsese on this project, there has got to be other projects out there that maybe the studios aren't paying attention to.

A lot of actors draw in a certain audience, it's the truth. You put Brad Pitt or George Clooney or Johnny Depp or all these guys who are able to finance movies because of their name. With somebody else it wouldn't possibly get the same attention People who are able to bring in a certain audience deserve to get paid for that not just the studios. It took me back to the one time I really remembered my dreams because I usually don't.

But when I used a nicotine patch when I was trying to quit smoking, I did have bloodcurdling nightmares of mass murders, and I woke up in the middle of the night and had to take the patches off.

I guess I had moments like that in the film. Ooh, I know that's controversial, isn't it? I sometimes go on a vacation, too. I take what I do very seriously, and when I'm on the set that's all I focus on, so my vice is to hang out with my friends and talk about absolutely nothing of importance whatsoever and act like a complete idiot because I've got to filter out a lot of the serious stuff I'm dealing with all the time.

It's like therapy to just be a complete idiot with my friends and it's fantastic. There were a couple of weeks when I was in a hole and it was the deepest I've ever gone with a character, emotionally. He wrote the entire thing, and it all made sense to him. It didn't make much sense to us when we were doing it, and we had to do a ton of detective work to try to figure out what the movie was and what we were doing from day to day, but, thank God, we had somebody who knew what he was doing.

I have no idea and it's kind of a cool place to be. This year is going to be the year of really taking care of myself because I've reached 35 and I've taken a lot of things seriously, maybe too seriously at times, so I'm going to make sure that whatever I do next and whatever choices I make are really right for me. And we'll see where that takes me.

Condition-wise, there are a lot of hardships for the people that live in Mozambique, and there's a lot of situations going on with poverty and AIDS and unsanitary water.

You name it. But the most intriguing thing I found about shooting in Mozambique was the triumph and adaptability of the human spirit: People were still filled with so much joy. They were literally dancing in the streets every night.

It was an amazing thing to see. Being discreet in his private life has allowed him to be even more credible in different roles on the big screen. My interactions with them didn't have all the stigma behind it, not to mention there wasn't a perception of her talking to me for only one reason.

I didn't care what anyone thought. It was also about avoiding the tornado of chaos, of potential downfall. My two main competitors in the beginning, the blond-haired kids I went to audition with, one hung himself and the other died of a heroin overdose I was never into drugs at all. There aren't stories of me in a pool of my own vomit in a hotel room on the Hollywood Strip.

I just felt like doing a movie is doing a movie. I get money and fame, and that's great, and I can act and have fun. And I was up for a movie called Hocus Pocus with Bette Midler , and I knew it was awful, but it was just like, "Okay, they're offering me more and more money. Isn't that what you do? You do movies and you get more and more money.

If I don't get that, I'll do Hocus Pocus. They were using the mustard-jar scene in the audition. De Niro was going up to the kids with this almost empty mustard jar and cramming it into their faces, really pushing the kids' buttons. The scene was being used to see if the kid could stand up to De Niro, and it was hard not to be overwhelmed.

When he started bludgeoning me, I completely overcompensated. He said, "Is this empty? Is this empty? I was supposed to be the victim, not the antagonizer, and there was complete silence. De Niro looks at me and goes, "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh", in that way only De Niro can laugh. That was goooood.

I like that. A little over-the-top but good". My audition was supposed to go on, but they just stopped it. I'm buried. I'm done. Getting that part felt like winning the lottery. Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there. I've been to the Amazon and people with no clothes on - and I'm not exaggerating - know about that film.

I've accepted it. When I can't immediately define the character and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

I like those kinds of complicated characters. There are a lot of pitfalls to success, and one is not listening to criticism. One of the the most important things you can do is hear criticism of yourself and embrace it, whether it be - in my case - artistic or personal. Gatsby's one of those iconic characters because he can be interpreted in so many ways: a hopeless romantic, a completely obsessed wacko or a dangerous gangster, clinging to wealth.

I hated him. It was one of the most narcissistic, self-indulgent, racist, horrible characters I've ever read in my entire life. You learn, after you've been in the business for a while, that fame is empty and pointless.

And the movies that are a hybrid of those two things - that have deep content in them and that also have some scope - will kind of dissolve away. I see that happening more and more in the industry, it's either like: "This is a regurgitation of films you've seen a thousand times that work Or you can take a chance and do a really low budget, small movie and see how it turns out.

We grew up watching his films and he's still making stuff that's punk rock. It's an amazing achievement. We got to see some of the most memorable films and performances of all time during that era and everything since then has always been a reversion and comparison back to those films.

Any one of my friends, whenever we talk about movies, we always reference something from the '70s. And to me, the greatest cinematic partnership maybe of all time, and certainly of that time period, was De Niro and Scorsese. In a lot of ways, they were a part of my upbringing and my childhood, as far as being a fan of cinema.

So to get to work with him, being of completely different generations -- we just have a shared understanding that we're out there to do the same thing. I think that's taken a while to truly understand on his part -- not a while but, I mean, it's been a culmination of more and more trust with one another.

And, in a lot of ways, I think [ The Wolf of Wall Street ] is the result of being able to work with each other on our films before it. We were not going to try to do something in a traditional sense in this film. We'd been given the opportunity to make a film that was going to hopefully be outrageous and daring and push the envelope a little bit. So it wasn't necessarily a dialogue about what type of movie we wanted to do after the experiences that we've had together.

At this point, it was just about us reminding one another, with very specific character decisions or plot points. But, just to backtrack a little, I understand his mentality, too. You have to understand: This man is the greatest admirer of cinema as an art form of anyone you'll ever meet, and there's nothing in his life that he doesn't reference cinema to. He lives and breathes this. He's got such an admiration and appreciation for what's been done in the past.

And he's got that hunger in him, as well, and that excitement for us to just be able to do the type of films that we want to do. The fact that, through the years now, we've trusted one another to know that we're not doing anything for our own self-interest -- it's more about making the best, most original movie we can -- has been an incredible experience for me.

And I don't stop learning. I mean, every time I'm on set with him I learn more about the reason I make movies and the reason I'm an actor than anything I've ever done. I think everyone wants to be recognized by their peers, absolutely, without question. But, the truth of the matter is you learn very quickly you have absolutely no control of what critics or audiences are going to think.

You really just have to do everything you can to make the best film. That's the one thing that I do know.

But, of course, you know, I would love for this film on all fronts to get some attention because there's only been two films in my entire career that I've really developed myself, really championed to get financed and got a director involved with, and that's been The Aviator and this. And so, in a lot of ways -- and I hate to use the term -- those two are my "babies. And I think that they're very difficult movies to pull off, especially with this one, a film that opens yourself and the movie up to a lot of criticism.

So to get any kind of recognition would be amazing for this, absolutely. He held nothing back and was unapologetic about his lust for wealth and mad consumption.

It really was like Taxi Driver in a lot of ways. I grew up very poor and I got to see the other side of the spectrum. I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was three or four years old. So Hollywood was a walk in the park for me. I'd go to parties and it was there, and yeah, there's that temptation. I don't think I would be able to compare to what I've seen.

There are so many things that come into play when you make a movie. I really don't know how they do it. The truth is, the one thing I regret, if anything, in my long career having worked with the likes of Alejandro [ Alejandro G. But it would have been wonderful to have someone document all the great experiences I had and learn from the decisions.

That's what you have to look for when you work with these directors. It's these tiny little decisions that change something from being mundane. Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room.

I have to congratulate the other incredible nominees this year for their unbelievable performances. The Revenant was the product of the tireless efforts of an unbelievable cast and crew I got to work alongside.

First off, to my brother in this endeavor, Mr. Tom Hardy Tom, your fierce talent on screen can only be surpassed by your friendship off screen. To Mr. Alejandro Innaritu, as the history of cinema unfolds, you have forged your way into history these past 2 years Thank you to everybody at Fox and New Regency