 Aussie movie hunk Sam Worthington stumbled into acting in a desperate attempt to keep a teenage romance alive. The Terminator Salvation star, who is fast becoming one of Hollywood's hottest properties, was a bricklayer with no interest in the arts when he agreed to join a wannabe actress girlfriend at a drama school audition - for moral support.
Worthington got into the prestigious school and the girl didn't; she dumped the actor a week later. He tells WENN, "I built houses and never wanted to act. When I was 19, I met a young girl who auditioned for the premier drama school and I auditioned with her for moral support, to cheer her along. I got in and she didn't. "I was a complete novice - I didn't know what the wings on the stage were and I thought (Anton) Chekhov was on the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek; I didn't realise he wrote plays. "I was a sponge that took everything in. And then, you finish your sentence after three years and they release you for good behaviour, if you're lucky, and you go and work, and you learn how to act. I'm still an infant in this, but it's been 10 years. "I've always thought that you do as much as you can, in your own country, so you can sit in a room with Jim Cameron or McG and offer something. That's my apprenticeship."
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