4. Johnny Depp - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
According to legendary film folklore, Johnny Depp approached Hunter S Thompson before filming Fear and Loathing, asking him if he wouldn't mind if he lived with him for a while, shadowing his every move and becoming life long friends in the process. Thompson agreed, told him to live in his basement for the foreseeable, but under no circumstances smoke any cigarettes down there. Depp agreed, yet found it odd that Hunter S Thompson, a man renowned for hard drugs use, crazy antics and most aptly, chain smoking asked him to avoid smoking cigarettes in his basement. Depp decided to sit down on a rickety old chair and spark up anyway. After a few tokes of his cigarette, he noticed that the ash tray he was using (and the man-made seat he was perched in) was nothing but stacks of dynamite. He screamed for Thompson to come down to his basement and confirm whether or not it was real dynamite. Thompson replied that Depp 'Could have blown us all to bits!' Smoking does indeed kill, but not if you live as dangerously as Thompson, it would appear that he has much more exotic ways of kicking the bucket. After his ill timed suicide in 2005, Johnny Depp bank rolled Thompsons life long request to have his ashes shot out of a cannon - A truly explosive friendship from start to finish and one that is proof that sometimes life truly is stranger than fiction.