While many actors spend years trying to land their big break, there are a handful celebrities who end up on an expedited path to stardom.
These actors get cast in their breakthrough role with almost no experience. When Henry Golding was cast in a starring role in Crazy Rich Asians, he had never been in a movie before. When her friend sent her a social media post about an open casting call and she submitted an audition, she had no idea that just weeks later she would get a callback and would soon be meeting with the director himself. After almost a year of auditioning, she finally landed the part. Iman Vellani was also still in school when she auditioned for the lead role in Ms.
Thankfully, she decided to send something in at the last minute -- and just days later she was being flown out to Los Angeles. When Gabourey Sidibe was cast in Precious , she was a psychology student and working as a receptionist. She had quit taking part in local theater productions years prior -- and when she was recommended to audition for the starring role in the film, she was hesitant to agree because she had just started classes.
On the day of the audition, she decided to go. The biggest thing I learned is that I was wrong about what I thought I could do. Alexis Bledel had just graduated high school and had only been an extra in one film when she auditioned for Gilmore Girls. She says she ended up landing the lead role in part because of how little she knew about the entertainment industry. Alexis explained that she ended up at six different callbacks, which annoyed her at the time. I had a little attitude, and our boss really liked that a lot.
Before Hunter Schafer landed a starring role on Euphoria, she was working as a model and had plans to go to fashion school. When she came across the casting call for the show, she considered applying, even though she had never acted before -- and then was coincidentally invited to audition through her modeling agency.
