15 Celebs Who Went From “Wait, They Did WHAT?!” Normal Jobs To Massive Fame

While trying to make it as an actor, Kerry held several jobs, including a New York Public School system substitute teacher. "It was a perfect job for an actor because you get a call in the morning saying, 'We need a teacher.' If I had an audition, I wouldn't go. But if I didn't have an audition, which was most days, I would go and work in a school," she said on The Late Show in 2017. She was working as a teacher before her first big movie role in Save the Last Dance. "It did not pay me a lot of money, so after the movie came out, I went back to substitute teaching for a while." However, she couldn't work in high school anymore because kids were skipping their classes to see her substitute teach.