Interesting Insights Into Celebrities Career Twist

Mayim Bialik

The Big Bang Theory is not a name we haven’t heard of and Amy Farah Fowler, who plays the neuroscientist in the series, is another known name. However, not everyone knows that she in Mayim Bialik in real life, the PhD holder in neuroscience from none other than University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Besides The Big Bang Theory, she has acted in countless television series, Blossom being one of them, a very popular show in mid 1990s. Yes, her acting career dates back to then and even before.

Mayim took a break from acting to pursue studies and earned a B.S. degree in Neuroscience from UCLA in 2000. She went on to pursue a doctorate degree in same field and completed her PhD in 2007 after taking a break from studies in 2005 to return to acting. So our beloved Amy, the Nobel Prize winning Neuroscientist, is none other than Dr Bialik in real life. And what more, a paper she wrote in 2007 as part of her doctorate thesis is named Hypothalamic regulation in relation to maladaptive, obsessive-compulsive, affiliative, and satiety behaviors in Prader-Willi syndrome. How coincidental it is to her screen character Amy. Amazing we say!

An excerpt of her interview with Gene Russo in 2012 is mentioned below for some interesting insights about the actor and "doctor".

How did you end up doing a PhD?

Some of it was momentum. I studied neuroscience as an undergraduate. I was pleased to have a new life after Blossom. After that, I had to choose between medical and graduate school.

Did you have to overcome bias at university to be considered a 'serious scientist'?

I think some professors were harder on me than on other students. After I did poorly in an examination, I got some amazingly insensitive comments from a professor who basically said I was not cut out to be a scientist on the basis of this one test. Another professor brought his children to meet me after I did my final exam. That was actually kind of awkward.

Your character in The Big Bang Theory is a neurobiologist. Did your background help you get the part?

The character wasn't a scientist when I first appeared on the show. When I came back the next season, co-creator Bill Prady made her a neurobiologist. He thought I could help fix things — the science details — if they got them wrong. We have a physics consultant on staff and our writers are generally very intelligent.

Jeremy Renner

Any guess for what's similar between Russel Crowe and Jeremy Renner or for that matter, Lindsay Lohan and Jeremy Renner. Nothing? Well the not so sweet cords of music connect them. They all are actors giving a career twist towards music. However, not at all successful as they were acting. Yes, you heard it right! Our Hawkeye also is an actor-turned-musician. His latest song, "Heaven Don't Have a Name", out on June 28 2019, has been described by some as completely baffling and by some others as quite possibly the worst song of 2019. Believe it or not, but there it is! See some tweets below, yourself.

Jeremy D. Larson - @jeremydlarson

Not being able to tell if the Jeremy Renner song is real is what the dangerous legalization of marijuana has done to this country

Lindsey romain (@lindseyromain)

the new jeremy renner song is definitely gonna play over a sex scene in RIVERDALE next season

In an interview with People Magazine, Renner explained that music has always been a huge part of his life, more so than acting.

"Acting came into my brain around 20. Music has always been my first love as far as something other than my family." The interview also revealed that Renner taught himself how to play piano, guitar and drums. The actor described what music means to him and how he attaches it to his family, as he often spends time in his home studio creating music. "[One thing that] makes [music] greater is that I get to stay here in my home and do it and get to be around the people I love."

His latest song is definitely not his first and he has had musical dealings before also. He recorded "I Drink ALone" for a Charlize Theron starrer drama "North Country" and has also done some tracks for films "Love comes to the Executioner" and "The assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". Ever heard of these flicks.

No is the answer, ain't it? Then how could you have ever heard what Renner has ever played! Well, now that you know, it's up to you to or not to give an ear to the vocals of this charismatic star of MCU.

James Franco

From Sylvester Stallone to Jim Carrey and Johnny Depp to Lucy Liu, there has been a sweet history of actors turning to painters. Then comes the Oz, who has been painting longer than he has been acting. However, what differentiates James Franco, who played the lead in Oz the Great & Powerful, from the others is his critics claiming one of his works to be "silly, self-obsessed dem-drag recreations.” This was Jerry Saltz, a New York (italics) art critic. He also wrote that "at this point George.W.Bush is actually a better artist that James Franco." He was referring to Franco's work displayed at Pace Gallery in 2014.

In an intearction with Jerry Saltz, Franco said:

And I understand. I know just from my own reaction to celebrities doing certain things — that it’s so fucking annoying, and it is repellent in a lot of ways, and it’s just gross a lot of times. But I’ve done everything that I can to respect these professions that I’m interested in. I’ve gone to all these schools. I went to the art school that so many of my favorite artists have gone to. But when an actor goes into music, when an actor writes a book, when an actor goes into the art world — before it even is made, people are considering it bad.

The New York Times pleaded, “Someone or something, make him stop” — in a review written by Saltz’s wife, co–chief art critic Roberta Smith.

Franco has participated in collaborations, solo, and group shows all over the world. His paintings were displayed publicly for the first time at the Glü Gallery in Los Angeles in 2006. He combined his acting experience and his love of art in Carter’s Erased James Franco, which was shown internationally, but most notably and ironical to his above critics, at the Tate Modern in London and MoMA in New York. He has also shown work at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and Pace Gallery in London.

Quoting another excerpt from his interaction with Jerry Saltz, the Harry Osborn of Spiderman:Trilogy fame, had said:

People get weird when actors go into the art world. They get weird when actors go into politics. Not that it keeps actors from doing it, or running for president.