How did Vince Vaughn become an actor?
In 1988, Vaughn was cast in a Chevrolet television commercial, and subsequently moved to Hollywood. Although he appeared in the 1989 season of the television series, China Beach and in three CBS Schoolbreak Specials (in 1990), he became a struggling actor and faced many rejections. His first film role was 1993’s Rudy, but Vaughn did not receive wider success until after his role in 1996’s Swingers. While filming Rudy, Vaughn met Jon Favreau, who was working on the original draft for Swingers; Favreau wrote Vaughn into the script as a favor. Swingers was released in July of 1996, and became a successful independent film. Director Steven Spielberg saw Vaughn in the film, and cast him in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which gave him an amount of exposure. From there, Vaughn went on to appear in several films of varied success, including playing Norman Bates in the 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. In 2000, he starred in The Cell with Jennifer Lopez and in 2001 appeared in Made, an
