Adam Driver, star of Lena Dunham's Girls, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jim Jarmusch's new movie Paterson (it's out tomorrow; Driver plays a poetry-writing bus driver; it's rather lovely) took a famously unconventional route into Hollywood.

After an army career was cut short by injury, he decided to become an actor and coolly auditioned for Juillard, a top US drama school.

An earlier attempt to secure a place at the prestigious institution, made while he was still in high school, had been unsuccessful – but, second time round, Driver's newfound confidence paid off.