Before they were famous, Hollywood's elite were just normal, pizza-faced kids trying to make it through high school.
Well, that's not entirely true.
Tom Cruise studied at a Catholic seminary for a year before dropping out to pursue other interests (AKA "women"). Meanwhile, brainiac Natalie Portman juggled the title role in Broadway's "The Diary of Anne Frank" all while competing in the nation's most elite high school research competition.
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Aaron Paul was an avid snowboarder. Just before high school, he took a career aptitude test and matched “the arts.” “There wasn’t a room to go to ask questions for that,” Paul said.
Jennifer Aniston’s name topped many playbills during her four years at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, the school that inspired “Fame.”
Sources: Biography.com, Wikipedia
Ben Affleck said he and buddy Matt Damon would engage in such extracurricular activities as “underage drinking, pot smoking, and all the attendant shenanigans,” and sometimes plot their paths to Hollywood.
Sources: People.com
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