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welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 celebrity movie
appearances
before they were stars i don't have a
minute you've made me late enough
i am so tired of dealing with
incompetence
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hi pat go muskies
for this list we'll be looking at
various movie roles by celebrities that
were filmed before they became the more
recognizable stars they are today
additionally the role cannot be what was
responsible for their fame the more
enjoyable the roles are now
retrospectively
the better what celebrity did you forget
was in your favorite film
sound off in the comments
number 10 chris evans not another teen
movie
we're kicking things off with one of the
most prolific actors of the superhero
era of hollywood
before he was captain america before he
was the human torch really
19 year old chris evans was finding his
stride in one of those movie movies
playing the popular jock archetype and
not another teen movie
his character was a direct parody of
freddy prince junior's role from she's
all bad
jet black hair included no no no
no anyone but her nut jamie briggs
guys she's got glasses and a ponytail
hardly the best parody movie to ever
grace the silver screen
though hardly the worst if we're being
honest but evan's comedic funny bone is
on full display all the same
who's that it's my mother
you have her eyes now that his tenure in
the mcu is ostensibly finished
re-watches of this movie has fans of his
saying
that's america's whipped cream bikini
hungry number nine matt damon
mystic pizza matt damon wouldn't get his
breakout role until he was 26 years old
with the advent of goodwill hunting
do you like apples
well i got a number how do you like them
however his first film appearance came
in 1988's mystic pizza
where a 17 year old damon played the
younger brother of one of the male
romantic interests
damon's scene comes when julia robert's
character meets her yuppie boyfriend's
family over dinner
and seeing as it's a romantic comedy it
does not go well
mom do you want my green stuff that's
called the tamale
steamer it's the best part it's the [ __ ]
steam don't eat
apparently what didn't go well for damon
steemer was the lobster
as he asks his mother if she wants any
of his green stuff
the cameo is unmistakable as even over
30 years later
matt damon still looks pretty much the
same looks hard everything number eight
carrie washington save the last dance
save the last dance was quite the box
office earner when it debuted in 2001
roughly making back its budget tenfold
how many people realized that they were
in the presence of a future star and a
young carrie washington
playing the friend to julia styles sarah
all right you need to take off that
fifth grade
dance looking top it's from the gap
it's country and you look country in it
washington
who turned 23 during filming gives quite
the impassioned performance in her first
big role
gracefully conveying the themes of
racial integration and squandered youth
he's gonna make something of himself and
here you come white so you gotta be
right
and you take one of the few decent men
we have left after jail drugs and drive
by that is what nicky meant about you up
in
our world honestly in comparing this
with the emmy nominees work on scandal
it becomes apparent that washington has
been that good for a long
time i don't know you still sound like a
little [ __ ] baby i'm not
a little [ __ ] baby and show me prove it
to me
right now show me who you are cyrus bean
number seven jennifer aniston leprechaun
this one
won't be hard to recognize as it came
out the year before jennifer aniston's
breakout role on the hit sitcom friends
i just i just i just want to be married
again
and i just want a million dollars what
is surprising however is how she
survived this campy schlock fest both
literally and figuratively
hello hello help us please come help us
we're trapped inside of here
where's the rest of me gold
here she plays the ostensible final girl
who uncovers a sadistic leprechaun at a
farmhouse in north dakota that's
definitely not
actually in california from there the 23
year old aniston and the rest of the
cast do a lot of running around as the
plot tries to figure out how to fill a
92-minute run time
still watching aniston play off the
always energetic warrick davis is a real
treat
what the hell are you i'm a leprechaun
meteor
she wasn't the first actor to get their
start in a horror movie nor will she be
the last on this particular list
number six elijah wood back to the
future part two
wood is so young in this one and it's
such a small part that you might miss it
if you're not looking for it
most of us know elijah wood is playing
frodo baggins in the lord of the rings
trilogy which began filming when he was
18.
remember what bill though used to say
it's a dangerous business frodo
going out your door you step onto the
road
and if you don't keep your feet there's
no
knowing where you might be swept off to
however he was just a mere
eight when he debuted in back to the
future part two set in the then
future of 2015 the scene comes when
marty mcfly visits a retro diner and
notices a couple of kids
tinkering with an arcade machine this
wild gunman
how do you play this thing i'll show you
kid
i'm a crack shot at this
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he shows them how it's done but they are
thoroughly unimpressed
that's like a baby's toy that's when we
get a good look at the future hobbit
they can't all be ps4's kid number five
jim parsons garden state ever since his
first appearance as sheldon cooper on
the hit cbs sitcom the big bang theory
in 2007
it's been difficult to see jim parsons
playing anything other than either a
giant nerd a brain you know at all or
both
you know in difficult moments like this
i often turn to a force greater than
myself
religion star trek apparently that
typecast precedes the show
as even before that he was playing tim
an armored employee of medieval times
dinner and tournament in zack braff's
directorial debut
garden state the 30 year old parsons
even spouts a little bit of klingon
something that would make the future
sheldon cooper very proud
say what you said to her last night
kuntar patiki maya al fukusu
apparently his collaboration with braf
went well as he would later appear in
braff's second feature
wish i was here why are you helping me i
have no idea
it makes no sense but you know whatever
number four
amy adams drop dead gorgeous hi pat
go muskies usually when you star in a
teen flick you figure
one or two of your cast mates will go on
to have a lengthy career
but we doubt anyone figured a 24 year
old amy adams would become a six-time
oscar nominee
either you stand up straight
and you get your back straight
and you have the courage to become
someone or i'm gone
sure the mockumentary drop dead gorgeous
has a number of notable young faces such
as kirsten dunst and brittany murphy
but would be damned if we didn't pick
adams out of the crowd for my talent
i'm going to be doing this yeah i'm
trying to test things out
she plays the hysterically ditzy leslie
just one of the many contestants in the
sarah rose cosmetics mount rose american
teen princess pageant
yeah long title while she may only have
one second runner-up in the pageant
she'll always be a winner in our book
hey hey i got second runner-up
i got second number three
alexander skarsgard zoolander these days
we think of alexander skarsgard as being
on the beefier side
whether it be in his breakout role of
eric northman on trueblood
or as the king of the jungle himself
tarzan whatever happens
do not interfere understand
however 24 year old skarsgard was
noticeably skinnier in zoolander
at least compared to his male model
roommates it's one of the funniest
scenes in an already hysterical movie
as the roommates bicker and allow their
heightened senses of self to warp their
world view
it's like excuse me but have you ever
heard of styling gel
i'm sure hansel's heard of styling jail
he's a male model
earth to brent i was making a joke
thankfully they're able to come together
and lift derek's spirits
over the one thing that's always sure to
do the trick orange mocha frappuccino
it's just a shame they had to die in a
freak gasoline fight accident
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number two johnny depp a nightmare on
elm street
johnny depp has made a career out of
playing unrecognizably eccentric
characters
be it captain jack sparrow willy wonka
or the mad hatter
it's absolutely alice you're absolutely
alice i'd know you anywhere
i'd know him anywhere however his most
unrecognizable role might be in his
first a nightmare on elm street
due to how normal it is but we have
reason to believe that there might be
something very strange going on here
he plays glenn lance boyfriend of main
character nancy thompson
despite suffering from nightmares
himself and discovering the bodies of
his two friends
he refuses to believe it's the work of
deceased serial killer
freddy krueger you
bastard what do i do his doubt proves to
be the death of him as he falls asleep
on the job and pays the consequences
resulting in one of the bloodiest movie
deaths ever
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who could have guessed the then 21 year
old depp would have such a storied
career
before we unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
charlize theron that thing you do even
back in 1996 she was breaking hearts
this is hardly a date guy i thought we
were going to the movies and dinner at
the club
jason siegel can't hardly wait before
howie met your mother in pineapples
he was the watermelon guy it's not
really brown
oh he's tall yeah he's kind kind of tall
sort of tall seth rogen donnie darko
here he's playing a high school bully
didn't your dad like stab your mom
sandra oh the princess diaries the
future grey's anatomy star shines
through as the vice principal
the queen is coming to grove high school
samuel l
jackson good fellas even before he was
always dying in movies
he was dying in movies
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number one tom hardy black hawk down
ridley scott's black hawk down is
riddled with rising young talent
from the likes of hugh dancy to orlando
bloom but for our money
the pre-fame role that always tickles
our fancy is that of tom hardy as
spc lance twombly it's nice to see him
in an action setting without the lower
half of his face covered
as we'd become well acquainted with
though amusingly his word delivery is
still very distinct
we're back before dark you might as well
take dope and beer instead
what between traversing the
battle-scarred streets of mogadishu
and appearing in hbo's world war ii
mini-series band of brothers
2001 was quite the debut for the 24 year
old hardy
playing a soldier in two esteemed war
fighting the projects it seems that the
germans are bad
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