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** Apparently, playing Dr. Tenma in the recent CGI adaptation of ''[[Astro Boy]]'' was something he wanted to do for a very long time.
** According to [[The Simpsons (animation)|David]] X. [[Futurama|Cohen]], Cage spends large sums of money collecting trilobites.
* [[Jessica Alba]] plays [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s. She even responded to a random blinking challenge video in some site. Imagine, staring at that beauty for several minutes.
** She's on a website called ''beatmyrecord'', and as of late, nobody has yet to beat her staring challenge of 1 minute 32 seconds.
** The website is ''ibeatyou'' and it's ''her husband'' Cash Warren's website.
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** His wife Kate Capshaw said that her first experience with him had him asking if she wanted to play an arcade game he had in his office.
* Jude Law has a tattoo of [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]].
* [[Peter Jackson]] likes video games. He personally selected developer Michel Ancel to develop the ''[[King Kong]]'' tie-in game because he was a fan of ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]],'' and because of [[The Problem with Licensed Games|the inconsistent quality]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' games. He was supposed to do a new ''[[Halo]]'' game with Bungie, but that ended up being cancelled.
** Peter Jackson allegedly got hooked on ''[[Halo 2]]'' online multiplayer during the production of ''King Kong,'' leading to his attempts to adapt or work on a ''Halo'' property.
*** Said project eventually becoming ''[[District 9]]''.
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** He also regards himself as a [[Promoted Fanboy]], since he now does conventions with [[George Takei]] and Nichelle Nichols and the other actors he grew up revering, and he has to outwardly be cool and calm when on the inside he's freaking out because ''Sulu knows his name.''
** He's also a ''[[Star Wars]]'' cosplayer... [http://www.lightsaberworld.com/public_html/default.html who makes custom lightsabers].
* There's a picture floating around the internet of someone who looks very much like [[
* [[Edgar Wright]] has been quoted as saying on his TV show ''[[Spaced]]'', "It's a show by geeks, for geeks." Also, he casually mentions the difference between the Green Goblin and Hobgoblin on the commentary track to ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''.
** And this is before we get to ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]''.
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* [[Katie Leung]] is a fan of ''[[Kick-Ass]]'', Russian constructivist art, and photography.
* [[Chloë Grace Moretz]] of ''[[Kick-Ass]]'' fame is implied to be a fan of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. This stems from when she was rumored to play Toph in the sequel to ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', and while denied, she expressed delight at portraying the Blind Bandit.
* Filipino Broadway actress and Disney legend [[Lea Salonga]] is a huge ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' fan, to the point that she even wrote [https://entertainment.inquirer.net/284327/requiescat-in-pace an article] in the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer'' about ''[[Assassin's Creed Origins]]''.
* [[Abigail Breslin]] is a huge fan of the [[American Girls Collection|American Girl]] dolls especially during her days as a child actress, reportedly having the complete historical doll line including the character she played a role in.
* Aileen Quinn of ''[[Annie]]'' fame was very much into video games and enjoyed ''[[Pitfall!]]'' and ''[[Centipede]]'' on the [[Atari 2600]], expressing her enthusiasm in [https://archive.org/details/Electronic_Fun_with_Computer_Games_Vol_01_No_04_1983-02_Fun_Games_Publishing_US/page/n7?q=%22aileen+quinn%22 a letter to the editor] for a 1983 issue of Electronic Fun.
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