The odd jobbing actors

HOW STARS STARTED ON FAME ROUTE

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BIN there, done that! We revealed yesterday how Beatles film star Harris Dickinson was just as happy when he was collecting rubbish as he was working in the movies.

The 28-year-old, who is set to play singer John Lennon in four new biopics about the Fab Four, says he loved his former job as a refuse collector. But some celebrities have had even more unusual careers before they found fame. Here JAMES MOORE looks at their quirky CVs...

LION TAMER: Prior to starring in movies like Dune: Part Two, Christopher Walken, inset below, worked in a circus. The 16-year-old got a job as a trainee lion tamer, saying: "I would come into the cage and wave my whip, and she'd lazily get up and sit like a dog and maybe give a little roar."