Celebrities That Served In the Military Before Hollywood Fame

Morgan Freeman

For a long time, Morgan Freeman had no interest in acting. He instead wanted to become a fighter pilot. The silver screen legend spent over 3 years learning how to fly in combat but realized it was not really what he wanted to be doing. “I had this very clear epiphany," Freeman once said "‘You are not in love with this; you are in love with the idea of this.'"

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