Some follow that Higher Calling to don the robes of clergymen and women, but it’s strange to think that before they found fame, these celebrities were planning on joining the Church.
Tom Cruise
Did you know that Tom Cruise studied at seminary school before making it big?
Angelica Houston
“I longed to be indoctrinated,” Houston once told the ‘Independent.’ “I’d put my mother’s old tutus on my head and pretend I was at my First Communion. When I was six, I told my father I wanted to be a nun and he said: ‘That’s wonderful, honey. When are you going to start?'”
Anne Hathaway
“When I was younger I thought about becoming a nun for a while,” Hathaway told ‘OK!.’ “You know how it is when you’re growing up and you’re going to be a lot of different things, but I actually wanted to be an actress before I wanted to be a nun. The nun was more of a side-bar thing.”
Martin Scorsese
Before finding success as a director, Scorsese grew up in the Jesuit school system, intent on becoming a priest.
Michael Moore
The director attended seminary school in order to become a priest.
Jack White
“I was thinking at 14 that possibly I might have had the calling to be a priest. Blues singers and people who are singing on stage have the same feelings and emotions that someone who is called to be a priest might have,” White once told the BBC.
Eva Mendes
“We grew up, not in a poor, poor family, but lower-middle class; a lot of bills and my mother was always stressing about money and stuff. And I would promise her, ‘Mum, I’m gonna buy you a house and pay all your bills one day,” Mendes said, according to Contact Music. “My older sister… said, ‘How you gonna do all this? Don’t you know nuns don’t get paid?’ And I was like, ‘What?'”
Dan Akroyd
“Did I want to be a priest? Sure…yeah, I wanted to for about 9 seconds,” Akroyd wrote on his Facebook page in 201. “This is not to take away from the excellent high school education I had at the hands of great priests/teachers and the blessed sisters who fed our student body at St. Pius X Minor Preparatory Seminary for Boys.”
John Woo
“I love helping people. When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church,” the ‘Mission Impossible II’ director told the BBC. “So I was so grateful to the church, I just wanted to pay back to society.”