00:00The difference that shaving a few years off your age can make is amazing.
00:03Hell, even adding a few years can be useful too.
00:06The evidence?
00:07Some actors have actually been able to get away with saying that they're younger or older than they actually are.
00:12A lie that helps them land a role in a damn movie.
00:14This is exactly what young Lawrence Fishburne did in order to join the cast of Apocalypse Now.
00:19When he was in the running for the role of Tyrone, Mr. Clean Miller, a 17-year-old character,
00:2414-year-old Fishburne told director Francis Ford Coppola that he was 16,
00:28and this helped him get the job.
00:30Carla Gugino adopted a similar tactic in order to land her first ever film role in 1989's Troop Beverly Hills.
00:37The actress is taller than most of her young castmates, and that's because she's older than them.
00:42Gugino was 16 at the time, but told director Jeff Canoe that she was 14.
00:46She eventually came clean midway through production,
00:48which prompted Canoe to say that he would never have cast her if he could knew the truth.
00:52I could not resist.
00:54Lastly, Sandra Bullock added a few years to her age in order to be cast as a scientist in Love
00:59Potion 9.
01:00The actress said that she was 29, despite being 27 at the time.
01:04Luckily, though, her ploy worked and she got the part.
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