9 stars who did not hesitate to "lie" to get the coveted role

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Remember this feeling when you really want to, but can't get it? So our stars also dream of the coveted role, but sometimes there are some restrictions from the filmmakers that prevent them from participating in the project. Either they have a short nose, then their legs are too long, then too young, or even give them masters of martial arts at all - there are a great many formulations of refusal. So, Hollywood happiness is only given to those who have a punchy character. Therefore, slightly embellishing their merits, adding or taking away several years for our heroes are not such a terrible lie in their work. On the contrary, little tricks helped them get the coveted role.

Mila Kunis

The girl became famous for her role in the TV series "The Seventies Show". The aspiring actress wanted to break into the project so badly that she went for a trick. At the age of 14, she managed to become a real star of the film. However, all the same, all the secret eventually becomes clear - the deception was revealed. In this ambiguous situation, Mila found something to say. Although she is now 14, but she will soon be 18, - so the girl reassured everyone. Time was already lost, the filming process was in full swing, and the team had time to get used to the charming beauty. So this little lie went for the good of everyone.

Whoopi Goldberg

Today, many TV channels and film studios dream of getting this wonderful comedy actress into their show and shooting in films. But there were times when the young Whoopi was just starting to build her stellar career. She chased literally every role, but almost always rejection followed. The reason for all this was the actress's too young age. But stubborn, persistent, she believed in herself and wanted to become famous as soon as possible. To do this, in her resume, she began to indicate that she was six years older than in reality. The effect of such a trick was not long in coming - the girl began to receive invitations. Now she is one of the few who have been awarded four significant American awards at once.

Anna Kovalchuk

Anna Kovalchuk also went to the fraud with real age. To play the role of Maria Shvetsova in the television series "Secrets of the Investigation" required an actress of mature years. Therefore, Anna was helped by friendship with the right person - Inna Lazarevna Shlionskaya. The woman was engaged in the selection of actors, and was able to help Anna not only with advice. She offered to say that the girl was 28 years old, and she spent makeup and filming in such a way that afterwards, after watching the footage, Anna Kovalchuk herself did not recognize herself. “I just couldn’t believe my eyes: you can give me all thirty there”. As a result, this role made the actress famous and helped to become a laureate of the prize "For the embodiment of the image of a positive hero" of the international film festival "Law and Society".

Chris Hemsworth

Actor Chris Hemsworth suffered from a completely different problem. His age was quite satisfactory for the directors, but there was another problem. Chris had a height that is good at basketball, but on the screen, compared to other average people, he looked like a real giant. Operators had to go to all sorts of tricks to somehow balance the dissonance. And the actor - from time to time to lie, writing off 5-10 centimeters. Imagine the actor's joy when he was finally offered a "full-size" role in the movie "Marvel".

Liam Hemsworth

Chris's brother, an aspiring actor, also had to be a little cunning. No, this time not about growth. He just really wanted to act with his ex-wife Miley Cyrus, and was just casting for a role in the movie "The Last Song". For the hero, in whose place Liam was aiming, it was important to play excellent volleyball. Of course, the young man said that he knows how to do it perfectly. The role was his, and then all the curses that the director was capable of. After all, Chris turned out to be a completely useless player. Fortunately, the management fell down and even hired a professional volleyball player for the actor, who at least in the slightest degree instilled in the actor playing skills. To this day, the actor jokes that the most difficult thing in the world for him is volleyball.

Ann Hataway

This black-eyed beauty lied and without batting an eye when she was asked about her horse riding skills at the audition for Brokeback Mountain. The actress assured everyone that there was absolutely no problem for her to find contact with this intelligent animal. However, the horses themselves thought differently. Despite the fact that for a short period before filming, the girl took riding lessons, nevertheless, she lacked cowboy skills. At one of the moments of the shooting, the horse kicked up slightly, and our heroine fell down. Then everyone realized that the rider from Ann was useless.

Daniel Craig

The famous Mr. Bond himself did not hesitate to lie. When Daniel Craig was offered to star in the film "Cowboys vs. Aliens", he also assured everyone that he was excellent with a horse. Although it would be worthwhile to think that he will have to stay in the saddle not for a few minutes, but for hours in the frame - after all, this is evident from the title of the film. As the actor later assured, sometimes the shooting was like torture. The only thought in his head at times was just the desire to stay in the saddle and not be disgraced in front of the entire film crew.

Robert Pattison

But our famous vampire at the beginning of his stellar career liked to embellish his biography a little. At the auditions, he stated that he was trained at a prestigious place - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. The presence of a professional acting education reassured the directors, and the young actor received the coveted roles. It happened that he was lying to such an extent that he attributed to himself a diploma no less than Oxford. Fortunately, success and luck have always been on his side - to be sure - talent.

George Clooney

Now it is difficult to imagine that a handsome man and owner of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame once received rejections. Failures pursued him, and in order to stop the evil fate, the actor took a risk. He didn't lie about his prestigious education or non-existent skills. He, as they say, just somehow “blurted out” on auditions that he was invited to the filming of the film “Cat People”. And here's a surprise: the villainous fate decided to play a trick on him. Just this conversation was heard by the person who really selected the frames for this picture! The casting manager instantly replied that he would not remember any Clooney, and it became clear to everyone that George was lying. Subsequently, the actor still got a role in this project, which, by the way, never appeared on the screens. And George himself learned a good lesson.