Hollywood A-Listers Who Got Their Big Break in Horror Films

Zach Galifianakis

As it turns out, yes, Zach Galifianakis has always looked like that. The actor had a small part in Below (2002), a submarine horror film written by Darren Aronofsky. Galifianakis played "Weird" Wally, one of the remaining survivors on a haunted submarine. The film received mixed reviews.

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The More You Know

  • In Home Alone, Buzz's girlfriend is actually a boy in a wig. The director thought it would be too mean to ask a girl to be in the film this way.
  • Disney wanted Robert De Niro as Captain Jack Sparrow, but he declined the role because he thought the movie was going to bomb.
  • The Hollywood sign once read ‘Hollywoodland’
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
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