The thing about actors is that they’re acting. Sometimes their personal lives are not what we’d expect from the characters they portray. For example (from IMDb), Keenan Wynn:
Wally Cox: ‘Despite his slight, timid features, his real-life hobby was motorcycle riding.’
I think it was on the commentary for Dr. No where I heard that Sean Connery is afraid of spiders in real life. (In the film, you can see that there is a sheet of glass between James Bond and the tarantula. Also a close-up where the spider is on Bond’s skin used a body double.)
What other celebrities have private lives that seem at odds with their onscreen personae?
According to all his castmates except Tina Louise who hated him anyway, Bob Denver was a voracious reader, and quite an erudite guy… and he smoked dope, too!
Lisa Kudrow constantly has to deal with people who think she’s slow or dim-witted due to her character Phoebe Buffay on friends. She’s propably less dense in real life.
You don’t say!
Katey Sagal, most famous for her role as the domestically-challenged Peggy Bundy, is actually a very low-key, elegant, down to earth individual.
I know actor Curtis Armstrong, and he is so far removed from his “Booger” character, you couldn’t believe it was the same guy. He’s incredibly nice and very smart and grounded, and has interests in so many non-stereotypically Hollywood things. He’s a regular guy who happens to be an actor.
