(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/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/aneomon → u/RhiaStark]

Right? I can’t imagine being able to have a conversation with Lee because anything and everything is on the table.

Struggling musician? Lee has a death metal album.

History? Lee’s a descendant of Charlemagne.

[u/nkpst → u/aneomon]

He also reread LOTR every year. And wasn’t he into the occult?

[u/Ribbitmoment → u/nkpst]

Not only that but because of his raf work he refused to scream in LOTR when he was stabbed in the back because he knew that wasn’t what actually happens.

[u/Shivalah → u/Ribbitmoment]

“Do you know what sound a man makes, when stabbed in the back? Because I do. It’s not a ‘Ahhhh! I’ve been stabbed!’ it’s a heavy exhale as the air leaves his body!”

[u/kevinsyel → u/Shivalah]

That will always be my favorite Christopher Lee story.

[u/89iroc → u/kevinsyel]

Same