To many people, actors and actresses lead glamorous lifestyles with riches and wealth, hopping from one glamorous party to the next. While that may be true for some of the time, for much of their everyday lives, they are just ordinary people like everybody else. This means they share a lot of the same hobbies as us too – such as playing video games. Gaming is a preferred pastime of all sorts of actors and actresses, including everyone from Henry Cavill to Mila Kunis. This article will delve deeper into the phenomenon of game-loving movie stars.
Mila Kunis
The actress Mila Kunis, who appeared in Friends with Benefits, Bad Moms and Jupiter Ascending to name just three, is someone who you may not necessarily expect to be a big lover of games. However, she is, in fact, a committed World of Warcraft fanatic. At one point, she became so obsessed with WoW that she had to forcibly stop herself from playing! It has also been reported more recently that she is a fan of the game Call of Duty as well – particularly the Nazi Zombies mode found in World at War and the Black Ops series. Her passion for gaming also goes to show that you can combine a public life as a leading actress with a private life at home in front of a console.
Zac Efron
To many people, Zac Efron will be remembered primarily for his breakout role in High School Musical, where he played the American high school jock-turned-actor Troy. As is the case with any actor, there’s much more to Zac Efron than that character – or, indeed, any other character he has played. It’s believed that Efron is a Halo fan, a first-person shooter which has had many different iterations since debuting on the original Xbox in the early noughties. He even went so far as to turn up at a launch party for the third instalment of the popular series in the city of Los Angeles in 2007 – and has been pictured standing beside a life-size model of Master Chief – the game’s main protagonist.
Henry Cavill
The likes of Henry Cavill are perhaps more famous for appearing in movies which appear to resemble the environment of an action game. He has an impeccable reputation as a star in a range of action movies, including “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.” However, Cavill is about much more than simply acting: he has a taste for gaming in high-stakes environments too. Just like Kunis, he enjoys a good game of “World of Warcraft” – and he even went as far as admitting that he sometimes fails to pick up the phone in the event that he’s engrossed in his games.
Derren Brown
The magic star Derren Brown is also a big fan of gaming – although he is understood to love gambling games in particular. He takes something of a different approach to many gamblers though and is highly strategic. He has featured in a number of online videos showing how to ace these games, and in one particular video, he shares his strategy on how to excel at blackjack. If you like to play at online casinos in the EU, it may well be worth brushing up on your skills by watching some of his videos.
Lady Gaga
Given that she’s got a reputation for being somewhat off the wall, it’s perhaps not surprising that Lady Gaga has many strings to her bow – including, of course, gaming. According to a tweet she posted on the social network Twitter, she especially loves playing the action-adventure game Bayonetta. “Still playing #Bayonetta middle of chapter XIII and my hands hurt and I have to sleep and it’s 4 In the damn morning but this damn dragon with the face that I have to kill with my weave”, she wrote back in November 2018.
Actors and actresses are to some extent just like everybody else – and they enjoy playing a video game or similar as much as the average person. With Zac Efron and his historic passion for all things Halo, to Mila Kunis and her love of World of Warcraft, there are tons of examples of successful and famous actors and actresses who just cannot get enough of playing games. So, the next time you feel a little bit guilty for spending your free time playing games, just remember that you’re in excellent company with some of the world’s most famous actors and actresses!