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Jon Hamm was Ellie Kemper’s highschool drama trainer in Missouri. Years later, she started a one-person present in LA. “At the moment, he was already well-known on Mad Males,” she stated. “I emailed him from our highschool listing. I stated, ‘Hey, I am doing this present. I do know you are actually busy, but it surely’d be nice for those who may come.’ And he got here.”
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Steph and Ayesha Curry are godparents to Lindsay Lohan’s son, Luai. Apparently, Lindsay’s husband, Bader Shammas, is sweet associates with movie star chef Michael Mina. He introduced Lindsay and Ayesha collectively, as he thought they might hit it off, and he was proper!
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Antonio Banderas is Dakota Johnson’s ex-stepfather (he was married to her mom, Melanie Griffith, from 1996 to 2015). Nonetheless, they’ve seemingly maintained a detailed bond as he posted a selfie collectively final 12 months. Antonio and Melanie additionally share daughter Stella, Dakota’s youthful sister.
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Due to the PBS present Discover Your Roots, RuPaul and Senator Cory Booker found they’re cousins. Each have been glad concerning the information, and Cory later appeared on an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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Insurgent Wilson was the final of 16 college students who studied performing within the US, due to a scholarship funded by Nicole Kidman on the Australian Theatre for Younger Folks in Sydney. “We’ve spoke about it since,” Insurgent stated. “I actually did thank her, and I donated the cash again to the school two years in the past, to allow them to use it for all their present tasks and new actors.”
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Woman Gaga is the godmother of Elton John and David Furnish’s two sons. When Elton was requested if he sang to the boys once they have been youthful, he stated sure — however he wasn’t the one one. “Gaga, who’s their godmother, used to return and bathe them and sing them to mattress.”
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John Boyega and Letitia Wright met at London’s Id College of Appearing and sometimes went to McDonald’s. “After class, we’d meet as much as focus on life, the long run, and simply inspiring one another,” she stated. He added, “You haven’t modified. We all the time have life-changing conversations.”
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Mara Wilson (who you may bear in mind because the little lady in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda) and conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro are cousins. In a 2019 tweet, she mentioned reducing kin “out of your life with none remorse,” and plenty of commenters presumed she was speaking about Ben.
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Jamie Dornan and Eddie Redmayne have been roommates earlier than they discovered fame. They usually frolicked with Andrew Garfield and Robert Pattinson, serving to one another with auditions and making tapes. Andrew stated, “We have been the form of guys who would go to the Customary Resort on Sundown Boulevard to play ping-pong and order one cocktail between us as a result of we could not afford any extra.”
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Supreme Court docket Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Matt Damon ran strains collectively in a drama class at Harvard. “He’s not going to recollect this, after all,” she stated. “The rationale why I bear in mind it’s as a result of he was already form of well-known round campus and off campus, so it was form of thrilling to be his scene associate for a specific class.”
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Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Hugh Grant are cousins. Although their great-grandmothers have been sisters, they met for the primary time on the set of Love Really.
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Keanu Reeves knew Dolly Parton as a younger boy as a result of his mom, Patricia Taylor, was a fancy dress designer. “She did plenty of stitching for me; she did plenty of my garments,” Dolly stated. “However I bear in mind Keanu when he was simply little. And she or he would carry him over to my home after we have been becoming or after I would go to the store the place she labored.” Keanu’s mother designed Dolly’s iconic Playboy bunny costume, which he as soon as wore as a Halloween costume.
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Brandy and Snoop Dogg are cousins. In fact, that makes Ray J (Brandy’s youthful brother) Snoop’s cousin, too.
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Tia and Tamera Mowry babysat Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on the set of Full Home. “My brother, he performed Teddy, and so we’d all the time go and go to the set,” Tia stated. “We might truly babysit the Olsen twins … The producers that may cling round on the set, they’re like, ‘These ladies, they’re so lovely.’ We even did a visitor spot on Full Home. It is form of the place we obtained our first begin.”
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Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson have been roommates at UT Austin. They first met throughout a playwriting class, the place Wes was struck by Owen overtly studying the newspaper in the midst of seminars.
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Whereas at Howard College, Chadwick Boseman was one in every of 9 college students who attended a summer time alternate program on the British American Drama Academy at Oxford. Actor Phylicia Rashad, one in every of his academics, requested her rich associates to sponsor the journey, and Denzel Washington was Chadwick’s benefactor. “The humorous factor is, he confirmed up on the New York premiere of Black Panther,” Chadwick stated. “I am like, ‘It is nice to fulfill you. Huge fan of your work. Simply wished to inform you thanks for paying for me to go to Oxford.’ He was like, ‘Oh, you owe me cash!'”
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Pedro Pascal and Sarah Paulson have been associates lengthy earlier than they grew to become well-known. Whereas discussing the evening they met, he stated, “We had 40s in our arms, some individuals began to speak shit, and also you have been the primary one able to throw down on tenth Avenue. You didn’t even know me, and also you have been prepared to leap right into a factor.” Sarah responded, “That sounds about proper.”
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Debbie Allen (who you may know from Gray’s Anatomy or Fame) is the youthful sister of Phylicia Rashad.
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And eventually, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale met earlier than they have been forged in Excessive College Musical. “We truly labored collectively a 12 months earlier than in a Sears industrial,” Ashley stated.
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