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  • Hey, welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 celebrity movie appearances before they were stars.

  • Don't have a minute, you made me lady.

  • Now I am so tired of dealing with incompetence.

  • Hi, Pat, Go musky, who for this list will 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 rules 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 Jr role from She's All That jet black hair included.

  • No, no, no anyone but her, not Janey Briggs She's got Blast.

  • Hardly the best parody movie to ever grace the silver screen, though hardly the worst if we're being honest.

  • But Evans 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 M.

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  • U 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 good will hunting.

  • Do you like apples?

  • Yeah, well, I got a number.

  • How do you like them?

  • However, his first film appearance came in 1980 Eights.

  • Mystic Pizza, where a 17 year old Damon played the younger brother of one of the male romantic interests.

  • Damon.

  • 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, you want my green stuff?

  • That's called the Tamale Steamer.

  • It's the best part.

  • It's the shit steam don't eat it.

  • Apparently, what didn't go well for Damon Steamer 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 aren't 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 in a young Kerry Washington playing the friend to Julia Stiles?

  • Sarah, uh, you need to take all that fifth grade dance looking top.

  • It's from the gap.

  • It's country and you look country, innit?

  • 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 Nikki 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 bitch, baby.

  • I'm not a little bitch, baby.

  • And show me prove it to me right now.

  • Show me who you are, Cyrus Being number seven.

  • Jennifer Aniston leper con.

  • 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 wanna be married again, okay?

  • And I just want a million dollars.

  • What is surprising, however, is how she survived.

  • This can't be schlock fest, both literally and figuratively.

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  • Hello?

  • Help us, please.

  • Come help us.

  • We're trapped inside of here.

  • Where's the rest of me?

  • Go?

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  • Here she plays the ostensible final girl who uncovers a sadistic leper con it.

  • 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 to a lot of running around as the plot tries to figure out how to fill a 92 minute runtime.

  • Still watching Aniston playoff Always energetic, Warrick Davis is a really treat.

  • What the hell are you?

  • I'm electric on Meteo.

  • 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 would 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 Photo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which began filming when he was 18.

  • Remember what Bilbo used to say?

  • It's a dangerous business front door 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.

  • However, he was just a mere eight when he debuted and back to the future, part to 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.

  • Is wild gunman interesting?

  • I'll show you, kid.

  • I'm a crack shot of this.

  • He shows them how it's done, but they are thoroughly unimpressed to use your hands.

  • That's like a baby's toy.

  • That's when we get a good look at the future.

  • Hobbit.

  • They can't all be PS four.

  • His 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 it 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 proceeds the show, as even before that he was playing Tim and armored employees of Medieval Times Dinner and tournament in Zach Braff's directorial debut, Garden State.

  • The 30 year old Parsons even spouts a little bit of cling on something that would make the future Sheldon Cooper very proud.

  • Say what you said to her last night.

  • Kuntar Petitti, Maya Al Fuck Sue.

  • Apparently his collaboration with Braff went well, as he would later appear in Braff.

  • 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 High Fat Go Muskie's who Usually when you start 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 gon sure the mock you mentoring Drop Dead Gorgeous has a number of notable young faces such as Kirsten Dunst's and Brittany Murphy, but would be damned if we didn't pick Adams out of the crowd.

  • For my talent, I'm gonna be doing the scope.

  • Yeah, I'm trying to stop you.

  • Never.

  • She plays the hysterically ditzy Leslie, just one of the many contestants in the Sarah Rose Cosmetics Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant.

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  • While she may only have one second runner up in the pageant, she'll always be a winner in our book.

  • Hey, I got second runner up.

  • I got second place, sir.

  • Number three Alexander Skarsgard Zoo Lander.

  • These days we think of Alexander Skarsgard is being on the beef here side, whether it be in his breakout role of Eric Northman on True Blood, or is the king of the jungle himself.

  • Tarzan.

  • Whatever happens, do not interfere.

  • Understand, However, 24 year old scars guard was noticeably skinnier in Zoo Lander, 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 toe warp their worldview.

  • It's like ex squeeze me, but have you ever heard of styling gel?

  • I'm sure Hansel's heard of styling gel.

  • He's a male model Earth to print.

  • I was making a joke.

  • Thankfully, they're able to come together and lift Derek 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 Number two.

  • Johnny Depp A Nightmare on Elm Street Johnny Depp has made a career out of playing unrecognizable e 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 this first, a nightmare on Elm Street.

  • Do 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 to 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.

  • 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.

  • Charlie's Tharon, That thing you dio 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 Segal can hardly wait before how I met your mother and pineapples.

  • He was the watermelon guy.

  • That's not really Brown.

  • Oh, he's tall.

  • Yeah, he's kind of 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?

  • So Sandra Oh, the Princess Diaries The future Grey's Anatomy star shines through is the vice principal.

  • The queen is coming to Grove High School.

  • Samuel L.

  • Jackson Goodfellas.

  • Even before he was always dying in movies, he was dying in movies.

  • Oh, stop.

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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 their fancy is that of Tom Hardy as Spc.

  • Lanced Wobbly.

  • It's nice to see him in action setting without the lower half of his face covered, as we've become well acquainted with, though amusingly his word delivery is still very distinct.

  • We're back before dark.

  • You might as well take dope beer instead.

  • What between traversing the battle scarred streets of Mogadishu and appearing in HBO's World War two miniseries Band of Brothers 2001 was quite the debut for the 24 year old Hardy playing a soldier in two esteemed war projects.

  • Why we find the watch Janovic.

  • It seems that the Germans are bad, very bad.

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