As an add-on to the Oscars Live Blog, this is a post that resulted from a deep and miserable procrastination spiral I had over the summer. In case you’re worried that we’re turning into TMZ, we’ll be back to normal posts on Tuesday, March 11th.

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My dad told me, “It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success,” and it took me seventeen and a half years. –Adrien Brody

You know how if you scroll down to the bottom of a movie star’s IMDB filmography, you get to a bunch of movies you haven’t heard of?

That’s the eating shit section. Almost every star ate an incredible amount of shit for years before anyone ever heard of them. And if you dig hard enough, you can watch it happening. Let’s give it a try:

Stars as Extras

It’s especially weird to watch a megastar play an extra, but it happened a lot:

Robert De Niro

Deniro played a number of small weird roles, but this one was certainly one of the smallest.