Of course Bryan Cranston participated in his high school's chemistry club.
The actor starred as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher-turned-meth-industry-kingpin, in AMC's critical darling "Breaking Bad."
We found other celebrities' pasts less predictable.
Basketball star George Clooney tried out for the Cincinnati Reds, Tom Cruise studied at a Catholic seminary, and James Franco interned at Lockheed Martin.
But there were a few common threads: A lot of them spent time in the principal's office, and most of them knew from the start that they wanted to take over Hollywood.
Check out what 25 celebrities were like in high school:
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Aaron Paul was an avid snowboarder. Just before high school, he took a career aptitude test and matched for “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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