Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Way to launch an acting career! Guy Ritchie spotted Statham when he was working as a model for French Connection (having already been a top diver; he represented Britain at the 1990 Commonwealth Games), and reckoned he’d be perfect for the role of a con artist. It may have been Statham’s real-life past as a street-corner perfume seller that clinched it. The film was huge, and the 31-year-old Brit was on the map.

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