10 Huge Actors You Didn't Know Were In Music Videos
8. Dominic Monaghan - Love The Way You Lie Ft. Rihanna By Eminem
The video for Rihanna and Eminem's Love the Way You Lie is incredibly memorable for several main reasons. Aside from the fact that it's a great song, the depiction of such a toxic, abusive couple is genuinely haunting, as well as the fact that it features Megan Fox.
After the Transformers movies shot the actor into superstardom in 2007 and 2009, she then appeared in the infamous Jennifer's Body and Jonah Hex. By 2010 when this video released, she was instantly recognisable. This may be why Dominic Monaghan's role as Marshall Mathers went relatively under the radar.
Monaghan had of course featured in one of the biggest movie trilogies in history in the early noughties, as well as playing Charlie Pace throughout Lost, but in the video he was unrecognisable. Who would have ever thought of casting Merry Brandybuck as Eminem?
The actor was friends with the director of the video, and as a huge fan of the rapper himself, Monaghan apparently jumped at the chance to be involved. All these years later a video with 2.5 billion views on YouTube is still surprising people.