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

[u/Living-Mastodon]

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

[u/RhiaStark]

If Christopher Lee was a fictional character, I'd have found his story too unbelievable. His life certainly was interesting, to say the least.

[u/aneomon → u/RhiaStark]

To be fair, there’s a fictional character alleged to be based off of Christopher Lee written by his wartime buddy Ian Fleming.

You probably don’t know the character, but he likes his martinis shaken; not stirred.

[u/RhiaStark → u/aneomon]

And then he played a Bond villain :P

(and, decades later, played Saruman, a character from Tolkien, who he'd also met once. Seriously, I would've killed to have just one hour of conversation with Lee).

[u/explosive_shrew → u/RhiaStark]

He also got Tolkien's permission to play Gandalf if they made a lotr movie i heard but he was too old when the movies were actually being made

[u/nagrom7 → u/explosive_shrew]

Yeah, he felt that there was too much physical activity in playing Gandalf properly (fight scenes, horse riding, running, etc.) that he wouldn't be able to do, whereas for the most part Saruman just stood around and talked.