Robert Pattinson Said He Went To Oxford. Robert Pattinson made a great Cedric Diggory in the 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but it turns out that if he hadn’t lied about his education, he may not have gotten the role- “I'd been unemployed for ages, and when I came to Los Angeles all the casting directors would ask what I'd been doing for the past few years. I'd say, 'Oh, I was at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)' - if you've got an English accent you can get away with it. I'd say I went to Oxford, too. I did it for years."

To convince Martin Scorsese to give her the role of Isabelle in the 2011 historical drama movie Hugo the actress Chloe Grace Moretz pretended that she was British. Moretz said that she totally fooled the director and that the latter had no idea that she was American until it was much too late- "I'd lived in London for five months when I was filming Kick-Ass, so I knew the rhythm of the accent, which is one of the main things you have to pick up."

Chris Hemsworth is loved by women but he is also 6ft 3in tall which means that sometimes he can’t go for the roles that he really wants to go for. As such, Hemsworth finds that he lies quite a lot about his height– “There are certainly things I’ve wanted to go up for which I’ve been totally wrong for, physically. And I normally lie about my height [6ft 3in] and say I’m shorter. But it can go two ways. The brief for the audition for Thor said: must be over 6ft 1in, which I’d never seen before!”

Nicolas Cage wanted the role of Brad in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High so badly that he ended up lying about his age. Since the movie had a few graphic scenes in it, the casting directors wanted to be sure that they hired only those who were either 18 years old or older. Cage was 17 at the time and while he did not get the role of Brad – apparently the directors figured out that he was lying – he nonetheless managed to snag quite a large role. Still, it was not a happy time for him and his experience on set convinced him to change his last name from Coppola to Cage.

Way before George Clooney was one of Hollywood’s A-listers, he was trying to land his very first role. But according to the actor, that was impossible unless you were a member of the Screen Actors Guild. This was before people could verify things very easily so Clooney thought that he was safe when he lied to the casting director about starring in the 1982 drama Cat People. Unfortunately for him, the casting director had worked on Cat People too- “I remember lying to a casting director about Cat People. She was like, ‘You were in that?’ I was, like, yep, and she goes, ‘Because I cast that.’ I finally just said, ‘I can’t get in the SAG. Help me!’ She helped me get a job on a film called The Predator. The movie never came out. But I got my SAG card."

How hard can volleyball be? That’s exactly what Liam Hemsworth was thinking when he was asked by the casting team of The Last Song whether he could play it or not. However, he then learned the hard way that volleyball is a rather tough sport! Hemsworth was so bad at volleyball that he even asked for a body double– “And, I turned up for the first day of volleyball practice and I was honestly really scared to shoot the volleyball part because it takes a lot of skills to play that game and I didn’t have them, at all. I said to Julie Ann, “I think we’re going to need a double,” but it’s hard to find someone as big as me.”

Whoopi Goldberg continues acting to this day but there is no doubt that she was most popular in the 1990’s. However, things did not always go smoothly for her. For example, when Goldberg started off her acting career in 1975 – she was 20 years old at the time – no one would hire her because they deemed her much too young! That seems almost unthinkable today and yet Goldberg said– “I lied about my age for a long time because nobody would hire me to act. Everyone said I was too young. So, when I was twenty, I put six years on my life.”

Laura Fraser pretended she could speak German when all she could say was "Ich Heisse Laura". Useful skill that allows many actors to get ahead in Hollywood is the ability to speak a foreign language. But what if you really want the role and can’t speak any foreign languages? You lie, of course, and hope for the best. That is exactly what Laura Fraser did when she said that she could speak German when she went for the role of Lydia in the hit TV series Breaking Bad- “Then I got an email, “Do you speak German?” I was like, “Absolutely, I speak some German. I’ve done it in school, like I learned, “Ich heisse Laura.” Basic German. But then I thought, “Oh no, what’s coming?” It was corporate-speak German and it was a nightmare – it took me days to learn a little paragraph.”

Mila Kunis revealed in an interview that she lied about her age so as to get the role of Jackie Burkhart – “Legally I was 14, but I told them I was a little bit older…I told them I was gonna be 18, which is not technically a lie, cause at one point…I was gonna be 18.”

Daniel Craig pretended he was a skilled horseman at the start of his career. James Bond could certainly ride a horse but the actor Daniel Craig, who ended up becoming the sixth actor to play the secret agent, could not, at least not at the start of his career. Craig was so worried he’d lose out on roles if he admitted that he couldn’t ride a horse that he often lied about his horse riding abilities– “The horse movies I had done before had so little money that I didn't have the chance to practice. I would just turn up to shoot and get on a horse pretending to know what I was doing - sometimes just to get the part.” However, eventually, he got quite a lot of practice and became a rather skilled horseman, so much so that he apparently said that if he had any land he would have bought a horse of his own!