16 Actors Who Learned Unique Skills For Iconic Roles

There's one surefire way to get better at your hobbies: be unfathomably handsome and charismatic, and then people will pay you to do it.

Tons of average joes have fulfilled their dreams of learning an instrument, becoming a pilot, even cooking meth! And all it took was years of studying acting, scraping by on crummy commercial gigs, and then eventually becoming so hot and interesting that people pay them to become even hotter and more interesting.

Anyway, here are a few of your favorite actors who got to (or were forced to) learn some pretty interesting new skills: