1. Johnny Depp Just Stands There - Becomes World's Best-Loved Movie Star
If anything, this list of "accidents" is a major tribute to just standing around and hoping that something good happens to you. That's to say, all Johnny Depp had to do to get famous was turn up somewhere he wasn't really supposed to be and have somebody look him in those gorgeous eyes. Like Gibson before him, Johnny Depp wandered into an audition purely to accompany a friend and with no plans of becoming an actor (he wanted to be a musician originally). The movie happened to be
A Nightmare of Elm Street, by the way, and that's when Wes Craven - arguably the world's most famous horror director - saw a pretty young boy in the corner and asked if he'd like to read some lines. He did so, Wes Craven loved him, and Depp's friend presumably ran out of the audition hall with tears in his eyes, shouting things like "It was
supposed to me!" Depp's friend was, in fact, Jackie Earle Haley, who went on to play Freddy Krueger in the
A Nightmare on Elm Street remake. So, um... yeah, that's good, too, we guess.
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