When seeing our favorite
celebs shining on the stage or TV, it’s hard to believe they used to work on getting by. It’s time we realize they are just normal people. Even the brightest stars had to start with their simple first jobs before making it big.
There are a ton of regular jobs that famous people started and some of them are unusual. Some were also in the process of training to enter long-term careers, such as teaching or law before getting famous. When giving up their stable job and entering the
Entertainment industry, many of them struggled with their jobs. While some always get the extra roles, others aren’t taken a chance because of their iconic characters.
We’ve gathered some stories of actors who are no strangers to job struggles and decided to share their experiences.
#1 Rupert Grint
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After portraying the character Ron Weasley in the Harry Porter films, Rupert Grint was thinking of becoming a carpenter. He shared, “I’ve always toyed with the idea of walking away from acting, and becoming a dad has increased those feelings”.
#2 Susan Sarandon
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Susan Sarandon came under huge pressure when starting her career in the early 1970s. She had to experience ageism: “I was told you were done by the time you’re 40… I’m still working, and there are tons of other women working around my age, and the main reason for that is female producers and female writers and directors, and people who are willing to try and get money for a female-driven story where all the characters are not 22”.
#3 John Bradley
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Despite his great performance in “Game of Thrones”, John Bradley had a crisis of confidence. He said, “Nobody seemed to want to take a chance on me”. However, a stroke of luck came at that time when he got the happy news that Jennifer Lopez wanted him to play her manager.
#4 Emma Roberts
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Emma Roberts fulfilled perfectly the lead role in “American Horror Story”. While many think that she had a successful career, she had a lot of failures as well as rejections.
#5 Brendan Fraser
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Brendan Fraser is enthusiastic about his acting career when doing movie stuns. As a result, he had to go through many surgeries. He said, “I believe I was probably trying too hard, in a way that’s destructive”.
#6 Megan Fox
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Megan Fox shared her career problems in the early 2010s, “I was brought out and destroyed at one point… And then suddenly everybody’s like, ‘Wait a second. We shouldn’t have done that’”. But, looking at her now, she is like a phoenix in the acting industry.
#7 John Krasinski
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John Krasinski decided to give up working as a teacher to pursue his acting dream. It was extremely harder than he expected, but with his mother’s support, he got his most well-known part.
#8 Liz Gillies
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Liz Gillies thought his career would thrive after she was done working for Nickelodeon, but it didn’t. she said, “I was like, ‘That was so much fun. People are going to be casting me so much right now. Let’s just sit by the phone”. She spent some time waiting while playing “Sims” in her basement.
#9 Paul Rudd
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Before becoming a famous actor, Paul Rudd had his struggling days: “I didn’t have much furniture. And I found a mattress out by the dumpster. And I thought, ‘Sweet. Free mattress.’ I just took it up to my room, and then I slept on it. And then the next morning I woke up covered in red bumps”.
#10 Gal Gadot
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Gal Gadot almost quit her acting career due to all the rejection. She shared, “I reached a place where I didn’t want to do that anymore. I was like, ‘Why am I doing this?’ Hearing no, over and over, I was thinking, ‘What am I good for?’ And that’s when I got Wonder Woman”.
#11 Jessica Alba
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Jessica Alba rose to prominence at age 19 as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. However, in the initial days of her career, she had trouble with getting roles: “They couldn’t p out my ethnicity… I would always go out for ‘exotic’.