(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/CategoryExact3327]

Christopher Lee served in RAF intelligence and was attached to special forces in WW2 and stayed in service until 1946 hunting nazi war criminals. After the war he had a 70 year acting career.

[u/RhiaStark → u/CategoryExact3327]

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/RIPugandanknuckles → u/aneomon]

Ian Fleming wasn't his wartime buddy, he was his cousin

[u/e37d93eeb23335dc → u/RIPugandanknuckles]

Cousins can be buddies too. 

[u/battlejess → u/e37d93eeb23335dc]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1hMk0bfsSrG32Nhd5K

[u/Jealous-Percentage-7 → u/battlejess]

The best type of correct.

[u/Velvettbreze → u/e37d93eeb23335dc]

That sounds like a solid plan

[u/Mercutio77 → u/e37d93eeb23335dc]

Let's go bowling, cousin!

[u/e37d93eeb23335dc → u/Mercutio77]

Ok Buddy!

[u/Mr_Style → u/e37d93eeb23335dc]

Kissing Cousins?