Movie stars doing "something different"

KenSwee

Just a post for fun to see if anybody can come up with things that movie stars do in the public eye that's not related to movies.

Here is my post to start off.



Patrick Dempsey racing for his own team in IMSA

D-FENS

DrumSteve

D-FENS wrote: »

Lol, that's a win.

Cork boy 55

Kevin Costner just won a court case against
Stephen Baldwin over a contract to help clean up an Oil spill WTF





http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/amyandrews_gossipgirl/kevin-costner-has-won-a-court-battle-against-actor-stephen-baldwin-159402155.html

paddy kerins

Bruce Willis: Blue's Singer :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXkd2NyCCE

JustAddWater

Mickeroo

Keanu Reeves was the bassist in the band Dogstar, they weren't very well known:



A slightly more well known band, Pantom Planet, had Jason Schwartzman as their drummer:

Skinfull

JustAddWater wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1DRTnP0gY8

Also... this... :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bhWcT2T7UI

johnny_ultimate

I'm always amazed when comparing the televisual output of Beat Takeshi with the cinematic output of Takeshi Kitano.

How the heck is the host of Takeshi's Castle also the star & director of Hana-Bi?! Only in Japan!

Bobby Baccala

Johnny Depp played guitar in an oasis song if i recall correctly.

kryogen

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Johnny Depp played guitar in an oasis song if i recall correctly.

Fade in, out

from Be Here Now, excellent slide and blues guitarist

bnt

There are quite a few actors with musical cred, such as Tim Robbins, a very good singer/songwriter - as showcased in Bob Roberts. He has toured Europe a few times, IIRC he played a few gigs in Ireland last year.

Harrison Ford is famous for his second career as a carpenter: he always had that to fall back on, and it got him in front of George Lucas when he did work on one of Lucas' sets.

I read that Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) is a "house flipper" in his spare time: buys houses, does them up, and sells them at a profit.

But the weirdest one I ever heard was Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar, House), who left House suddenly to go and work for President Obama as Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement. (The House producers were not pleased and had his character shoot himself.) Penn has been in and out of the White House a couple of times, and is now co-chair on Obama's re-election campaign.

rednik

Mickey Rourke, 9 and a half rounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF3XB8QsV_4

A_Sober_Paddy

Ryan Gosling has a band called "Dead Man's Bones"...Some of their stuff is quiet good, very atmospheric stuff altogether

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to7PxdyEdDw

Cork boy 55

Steven Seagal fights crime for free

On the big screen, he has been Out for Justice, Under Siege and Above the Law. Now, the action star is the law on A&E channel's Steven SeagalLawman (premiering tonight, 10 ET/PT).

Seagal has quietly served as an unpaid reserve deputy in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office since the mid-'80s, when he befriended the late Sheriff Harry Lee. But Seagal's law enforcement career is no longer under the radar.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-12-02-seagal02_ST_N.htm

Den_M

Duggy747

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6b_lSQst0

don ramo

daniel day lewis is a cobbler,
mayim bialik (amy on TBBT) has PhD on neuroscience
harrison ford was a carpenter
stallone was a deli worker
martha stewart was a stock broker
jennifer aniston was a telemarketer :eek:

LCD

Zach from Saved by the Bell is now a pretty handy amateur cyclist in America, racing at a good level.

Skinfull

don ramo wrote: »

daniel day lewis is a cobbler,
mayim bialik (amy on TBBT) has PhD on neuroscience
harrison ford was a carpenter
stallone was a deli worker
martha stewart was a stock broker
jennifer aniston was a telemarketer :eek:

That's all stuff they did before they became famous. I think the OP means stuff that they do now, despite being famous actors.

Like Martin Sheen getting a BA in English from NUIG in about 2007... :eek:

don ramo

Skinfull wrote: »

That's all stuff they did before they became famous. I think the OP means stuff that they do now, despite being famous actors.

Like Martin Sheen getting a BA in English from NUIG in about 2007... :eek:

daniel day lewis is a cobbler,
mayim bialik (amy on TBBT) has PhD on neuroscience

both done after they made it big,

emma watson is studying something at the moment
natalie portman has a A.B. degree in psychology from harvard

paulgeog

Skinfull wrote: »

That's all stuff they did before they became famous. I think the OP means stuff that they do now, despite being famous actors.

Like Martin Sheen getting a BA in English from NUIG in about 2007... :eek:

A BA in 3 months! Fairplay to him...

Mister Jingles

KenSwee

All raced Pro Am in the 60s & 70s.
Newman was behind bringING Nigel Mansel to America in the 90s.
McQueen raced SCCA in the 70s.
Garner owned and raced in his own team in the Mexican 1000 races of the 60S & 70s.

flyswatter

Jared Leto fronts 30 seconds to mars of course with his drummer brother Shannon. I read somewhere that he thinks of himself as a musician first and foremost.

kitakyushu

George Lucas was primarily interested in car racing during his youth. He was involved in a serious car accident in 1962 that seemed to refocus himself into film. He still follows racing and does a little bit himself at a friendly level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0glaUrFZCg

==

Steven Speilberg is a huge fan of video games in his rec time. Has been known to buy all the consoles down the years (and even various coin-op machines).

KenSwee

FishBowel

Donald O'Connor (from Singin' in the rain) was also a composer.
http://donaldoconnor.org/musicd.htm