Alan Ritchson says he pushed his body to the limit to gain 30 pounds for his role as Reacher, only to discover afterward that he had exhausted his testosterone levels. “I was 205, 6-3, 205. I needed to put on 30 pounds for the role.” “I built a gym in my house, and I worked my ass off. You cannot believe how hard I worked. Every day, like it was my life depended on it.” “And I did it without any help. No steroids, no testosterone, nothing. Just hard work.” “I go to the doctor, and ‘Let’s do a blood panel.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, you have no testosterone.’ I was like, ‘Okay, you know, I guess I beat it out of myself.’” “So we started on testosterone, and it was like, ‘Oh my god, like a new me.’”

Emily Blunt says she nearly killed Tom Cruise while filming a stunt driving scene after ignoring his desperate warnings to brake, convinced she knew better than one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars behind the wheel “Tom Cruise is in the passenger seat, not his favorite place to be. I don’t think it’s in his fabric to like being a passenger in a stunt driving scene.” “So we start, I tear down this path, and Tom’s being very quiet behind me. Suddenly, as I approach the right hand turn, I hear him going, ‘Brake, brake, brake.’” “‘Oh, god. Oh, god. Brake, brake, brake! Brake the car! Brake the car!’ And I left it too late and drove us into a tree. And I almost killed Tom Cruise.” “When I first heard him say ‘brake,’ in my head I went, ‘Oh, shut up.’ As if I thought I knew more about stunt driving than Tom Cruise.”

Shia LaBeouf says he got arrested after slapping and grabbing Alan Cumming’s ass at a Broadway show, only to find himself surrounded by six cops and terrified for his life inside a police station “Alan Cumming walks past me, and all I think about is the leather pants and him winking at me. So I give him a slap on the ass because I think he deserves it.” “I slapped and grabbed him. Like, I grabbed a whole cheek because I wanted the party right here in my pants. I wanted to grab the whole party.” “I get in there and this dude says, ‘Oh, Whitey’s here. It’s time for snitching.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Oh boy. Oh man.’ So my possum is like, ‘You got to do something, man. You got to do something. You’re going to die in here.’”

Caller: Dave, my dad runs our family business, and it has $5 to $6 million in debt. My three brothers and I are expected to inherit it, and the business is worth around $10 million. But I disagree with how my dad runs it, and the thought of taking it over is causing me a lot of stress. What should I do? Dave: You need to understand that you’re looking at a bear trap. Caller: But this is a $10 million business. Walking away feels like throwing away a huge inheritance. Dave: An inheritance isn’t worth it if it costs you years of misery. Your dad and your brothers aren’t likely to change how they operate, and you’re going to be stuck dealing with the consequences. Caller: So I should walk away from the family business? Dave: If they’re going to keep piling on debt, you need to be willing to walk away. Tell them you’re not joining a business that keeps borrowing money and putting itself in a deeper hole. Caller: Even if it means giving up millions? Dave: Your peace of mind matters more than an inheritance. Don’t let the promise of a $10 million business trap you in a situation you already know you don’t want. Sometimes the smartest financial decision isn’t figuring out how to inherit the business. It’s having the courage to walk away from it.

Dolph Lundgren thought he had beaten cancer after 5 years of clear scans, only to discover more tumors had returned and one had grown so large that doctors could no longer remove it “They found a tumor in my kidney in 2015, and they took it out. They did a biopsy, and it was cancerous.” “For 5 years, everything was fine. Then in 2020, they found a few more tumors around that area.” “The surgeon called me and said, ‘It’s grown now. It’s too big. We can’t take it out.’ It was the size of a small lemon.”

Richard Branson says British Airways tried to destroy Virgin Atlantic in a shocking “dirty tricks” campaign that involved impersonating his airline, stealing passengers, digging through his trash, and spreading damaging rumors to the press “They had a team of people behind locked doors at British Airways who would be ringing up our passengers, pretending to be from Virgin Atlantic, telling them that the Virgin flight was delayed and then switching them onto British Airways.” “They had teams of people going through my rubbish bins, and if there was a journalist that I'd talked to, they would be going through the journalist's rubbish bins.” “The amount of rumors they were managing to get the press to write about was becoming very dangerous and very damaging.”

Tom Cruise reveals how he challenged his makeup team to cut a six hour prosthetics process down to just one hour, refusing to take no for an answer and using a stopwatch to make them faster every single day while filming Mission: Impossible at the same time “I said, ‘Listen, we're going to get it down to an hour.’ And these are brilliant makeup artists, by the way.” “They just kind of looked at me. I was like, ‘No, we can do it.’ They're like, ‘I don't think so.’” “I got a stopwatch and we just put on each part every day, how they did it faster and faster.”

Richard Branson says he came within minutes of jumping to his death over the freezing North Sea, writing a heartbreaking final message to his wife before preparing to leap into the water, until one look at the giant balloon above him changed everything “I didn’t think I had a lot of chance of survival, so I wrote a short note to my wife, telling her how much I love her.” “I’d lost all communication with the outside world, so nobody knew where I was. The chances of survival were very, very, very unlikely.” “I put my parachute on, put a life vest on, climbed back on top of the capsule and prepared to jump. I knew these were the last few moments of my life.” “I looked up and saw the balloon and thought, ‘Screw it. I’ve got the biggest parachute in the whole world right above me. The balloon is the parachute. What on earth am I doing?’”

Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals O.J. Simpson was originally considered for the Terminator, while he was supposed to play Kyle Reese, before one conversation with James Cameron changed his path “When I got involved, I remember they told me that it was O.J. Simpson was the Terminator. And I was supposed to play Reese.” “As I was sitting there having lunch with James Cameron, for some reason or the other, I started talking more and more about the Terminator.” “When I read it, I had just seen Westworld with Yul Brynner playing a machine. There was something off about him, but you couldn't identify exactly what it was until later on when you saw them take him apart and fix him.”

Tom Cruise says he spent months preparing Emily Blunt’s 85 pound exosuit for Edge of Tomorrow, only for her to struggle with its weight before he told her to “stop being a wuss” and later became overprotective after discovering she was secretly pregnant. “I’d spent months prepping it and working on it,” Tom said. “He told me to stop being a wuss. It was the best thing just to make me laugh because I was like, ‘If he hugs me right now, it’s over.’” “During reshoots, Tom was confused about why I wasn’t doing all the stunts. Eventually, I told him, ‘Because I’m growing a human.’” “He started helping me downstairs. He was almost overboard. I was like, ‘Tom, I’m fine. I can do stairs.’”

Tom Cruise says his new Mission: Impossible movie may be the biggest practical action film ever shot, with no CGI, dangerous helicopter stunts, and a shocking admission that he used to fly without a license “I think in terms of action, this is probably the largest practical action film ever shot. Like when you look at the films, there’s no CGI.” “We’re going through Paris, the motorcycle, it’s just full on cars, you know, we’re all doing our own stunts.” “The helicopter sequence is just incredibly exhilarating and very dangerous. There’s really only one country that would allow us to do it.” Graham Norton: “Were you flying without a license previously?” Tom Cruise: “Yes.” “I had to get my helicopter license fast. I fly aerobatics in airplanes, but helicopters are very different. We’re flying very low, very close to rock faces in a chase.”

At 23, he lost $2.1 million on a single job after his biggest client went bankrupt. Now he’s $330,000 in debt, and Dave has a blunt message for him. Caller: Dave, I’m 23 and own a business. I spent $2.1 million completing a contract for a major aeronautics company, but they filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy without paying me. Now I’m $330,000 in personal debt. Should I file for bankruptcy? Dave : You made a huge mistake. You became the bank for a company that should have been paying you as the job progressed. You funded the entire project without deposits or progress payments. Caller: So you don’t think bankruptcy is the answer? Dave: No. You’re 23 years old, you’ve completed around 30 jobs in two years, and you clearly know how to run a business. You got burned by a company that took advantage of you, but that doesn’t mean your career is over. Caller: How do I come back from $330,000 in debt? Dave: Change your business model. Get money upfront. Require progress payments. Never finance a client's entire project with your own money again. You have the skills to rebuild this thing, but you have to stop making the same mistake. Dave: You’re not finished. You’re 23. Learn the lesson, get back to work, and pay off what you owe.