15 Movie Roles Actors Took For Strange Reasons

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15 Movie Roles Actors Took For Strange Reasons

There are several concrete, reasonable reasons why an actor takes on a role in a movie or on a television show. Some of the reasons are obvious. The money is good. It's a fun role. It shoots close to their home. It shoots in a great location away from the their home. It shoots in their home. But there are some reasons that aren't the typical quest for money, power, and fun.

Sometimes an actor takes on a role in order to spite a different actor. Or they were bothered so much that they took the role just to get a filmmaker to stop bugging them about it. Or because their therapist told them to stop being afraid and take up the shield of Captain America.

Big money, lasting fame, and immense power are great motivators for actors to take a role, but these following roles we're filled for entirely different reasons:

Vin Diesel cameo'd in Tokyo Drift just to get the rights to Riddick back. Universal didn't want to make more Riddick movies after Chronicles of Riddick because they weren't profitable enough, but they didn't just want to hand over the rights either. So, when they needed a cameo from Diesel,

Source: Yahoo

Chris Evans became Captain America because he went to therapy. A He'd said no to Marvel, then he went to therapy for anxiety, and he realized, Maybe the thing you're most scared of is exactly the thing you should do. So he changed his mind and took the role. CRACKED.COM

Source: CBR

Will Smith starred in Fresh Prince because the IRS left him broke. OOKE OO He spent all the money from his Smash hit first album without paying a dime to the IRS, and his next album was a total flopo so after he paid off his taxes, he had nothing.

Source: People

Hugh Jackman made a brief, sweary cameo in X-Men: First Class just to help out his kids' school. He shows up in one shoot, saying F*** off to Magneto and Professor X when they try to recruit himc- instead, Fox made a charitable donation to his children's school. CRACKED.COM

Source: SlashFilm

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