Famous Actors Who Lied To Get Movie Roles
by abirdicaprio2247 | created - 25 Aug 2013 | updated - 25 Aug 2013 | Public
1. Robert Pattinson
Actor | Twilight
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (née Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters. Robert discovered his ...
Robert Pattinson opened up about the lies he used to tellin order to get movie roles, saying, "Oh, I was at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) - if you've got an English accent you can get away with it. I'd say I went toOxford (University), too. I did it for years." He later also pretended to be American, but stopped lying after Twilight came out.
2. Sandra Bullock
Producer | The Proposal
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...
In 1990, she lied about her age to get the role of an older scientist in Love Potion #9. She was 26 at thetime but said she was 29. The lie worked and she got the lead female role in the movie.
3. Rachel McAdams
Actress | The Notebook
Rachel Anne McAdams was born on November 17, 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada, to Sandra Kay (Gale), a nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams, a truck driver and furniture mover. She is of English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish descent. Rachel became involved with acting as a teenager and by the age of 13 ...
Rachel McAdams lied about loving horses to get a role in To The Wonder, written and directed by Terrence Malick. In reality she says she is actually "so terrified and allergic."
4. Daniel Craig
Actor | Casino Royale
One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born ...
Daniel Craig lied about beinga skilled horse rider to get parts in movies because he figured he would learn eventually. By the time he starred in Cowboys and Aliens, you can see that he's actually gotten good at it.
5. Mila Kunis
Actress | Black Swan
Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis is a Ukrainian-American actress born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991. ...
To get a part on That 70's Show, Mila Kunis lied about her age. She said she was 18 or legally emancipated from her parents, which, at 14 years old, she was not. She was playing a 14 year old on the show though, so at least she was acting her age.
6. George Clooney
Actor | The Ides of March
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...
George Clooney wanted a Screen Actors Guild card so badly that he lied about being in a movie called Cat People to get a different role. The casting director of the other role had also cast for Cat People and immediately caught him in thelie. She actually ended up helping him get into the unionin the end though through a different movie.
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