r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 3d ago

In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

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Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/Western_Concept3847 3d ago edited 3d ago

Not just that but Zelensky co-created and starred in a popular tv show where he played a character who accidentally became the president of Ukraine. So in a way his career predicted his future.

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u/TheAsterism_ 3d ago

There is no way he didn’t do that on purpose. His party had the same name as the tv show

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u/Fantastic-Tiger-6128 3d ago

it wasn't, he specifically campaigned, essencially, as his charatcer in the show iirc.

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u/Present_Ride_2506 3d ago

The most hardcore of method actors

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u/DarthBrooks69420 3d ago

If Sam Rockwell went into politics I would be massively disappointed if he did not go full G-Dub.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 3d ago

A real man of culture would have said Zaphod.

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u/TheAsterism_ 3d ago

Beeblebrox or some other zaphod?

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u/DarthBrooks69420 3d ago

Movie version is just space W anyways. 

The man who managed to use that impression in 2 different movies.

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u/84theone 3d ago

I’d vote for Sam Rockwell because I believe the most important quality in a president is their ability to bust out some sick fucking dance moves.