17 Full-Circle Moments In Hollywood That Make Me Believe There’s No Such Thing As A Coincidence

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17 Full-Circle Moments In Hollywood That Make Me Believe There’s No Such Thing As A Coincidence

There’s something so satisfying about a full-circle moment. It’s almost like a movie, where something in your past foreshadowed your future. It kinda feels meant to be.

Here are 17 full-circle moments from Hollywood that make me believe there’s no such thing as a coincidence:

1. When Barry Keoghan was a kid, a box office worker named Rory Cashin caught him trying to sneak into Cineworld in Dublin and kicked him out. Years later, Barry was finally allowed back into the theater for the Irish premiere of his movie Eternals — and Rory, who’s now a reporter, interviewed him.

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Speaking to Rory for a JOE interview, Barry said, “I wasn’t going to say anything, but going through Cineworld last night, I remembered going there with your cousin Gary, being like ‘Are you gonna let us in? This is your cousin and all!’ and you were just like ‘Nope, not getting in!’ I was such a… pardon my French… but such a shithead back then. I used to try to bunk in and [you] would catch me. But it was nice to have the premiere there last night and be allowed in! The irony!”

2. When Jessica Chastain was in college, she got to hear Philip Seymour Hoffman speak to her class. He ended his talk with, “I look forward to working with each of you.” A few years later, Jessica and Philip ended up costarring in a production of Othello.

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In her SAG Awards acceptance speech, she said, “I’m telling this story now because it reminds me of how powerful our mind is and that we are what our thoughts create. So I just wanna tell everyone who might be struggling at home, to all the actors that I get to meet, keep going. You’re one job away. I look forward to working with you. I’ll see you on set. I love you.'”

3. When Howard University awarded Angela Bassett an honorary degree, the student who showed her around was Chadwick Boseman. Years later, they reunited “as friends and colleagues” when they played mother and son in Black Panther. During the premiere party, he reminded her of the first time they met.

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In an Instagram tribute to Chadwick, she said, “It was meant to be for Chadwick and me to be connected, for us to be family.”

4. When Angela Bassett attended the Yale School of Drama, she started FOLKS, a group that served as a place for Black students to connect. More than three decades later, Winston Duke and Lupita Nyong’o joined FOLKS together. Then, a few years later, all three of them costarred in Black Panther.

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At the Wearable Art Gallery, Lupita introduced Angela and thanked her for FOLKS and its impact on generations of students.

5. As classmates at Yale, Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke saw The Avengers in theaters together, and they shared a dream of being in a movie that big one day. In 2018, they both made their Marvel debut in Black Panther.

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Winston told Esquire, “We would always tell ourselves that they’re going to do it someday, but we could never tell who. At that point there was already the Blade films, but we really didn’t know how Marvel would go about doing their first African superhero.”

6. When Kelsea Ballerini was 15, she waited with other fans outside the barricade at the CMT Awards to see her favorite country stars. In 2015, she attended as a nominee. Several years later, she was asked to host the show for the third time in 2023.

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Sharing the story on TikTok, she said, “Manifest your life, baby!”

7. In 2017, Lil Nas X was a Taco Bell employee in Atlanta. In 2021, he partnered with Taco Bell as their “chief impact officer” and helped with the Live Más Scholarship.

She told Vanity Fair, “I got me a motel room, and he told me to write out a list of goals and start doing something every day toward those goals. … I wrote, ‘Get myself an apartment. Do these things, all these people I wanna work with, everything.’ I pretty much tackled almost all those goals.”

9. When Billie Eilish got her first iPhone, she made the lock screen a picture of Lana Del Rey with a bee on her lips, which was from a 2012 edition of Interview Russia. When Lana was on the cover of Interview in 2023, Billie did her interview.

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Billie told Lana, “I remember showing everybody [the lock screen]. I grew up homeschooled, but we still had…talent shows even though we didn’t have a school. I was all up in the talent show singing your stuff.”

10. When Mindy Kaling was a sophomore at Dartmouth, she interned at Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Over a decade later, she returned as a guest on the host’s new late night show, Conan.

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On Conan, she said, “You are my comedy hero. I couldn’t believe how starstruck I was working there. It’s so cool. … My dream was like, ‘One day, could I ever be a guest on Conan?’ That seemed too crazy to think about.”

11. When Gayle was 14, her mom bought her tickets to Taylor Swift’s Reputation tour. Four years later, she learned she’d be opening for Taylor on the Eras Tour in the same venue where she saw her play.

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Gayle told Entertainment Tonight, “My best friend and I went to [a Nashville] awards show, and Taylor Swift happened to be there, and I did a performance and some very cool things happened after that. She was just like, ‘You did a great performance, I’m gonna call you.’ Now I’m here, and I can’t believe it. I feel like I’m lying. I feel like this is a dream.”

12. During what was “probably the darkest time of [his] life,” The Weeknd saw Avatar in theaters, and it “was such an escape from real life that the film is tattooed in [his] brain.” When the long-awaited sequel finally came out in 2022, he got to see an early cut because James Cameron asked him to write a theme song for it.

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He told the Hollywood Reporter, “They told me they had one name on the list to do the song, and it was me. It feels kismet, and it’s a full-circle moment for me to be a part of something like this, because it is such an important film for me.”

His song, “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength),” is nominated for an Oscar.

13. Madelyn Cline grew up in South Carolina, but she dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Three years later, she booked her breakout role in Outer Banks — which ended up filming 30 minutes outside of her hometown.

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She told The View, “[Production] tried to make me live with my parents, and my parents still have curfew for me. So I was like, ‘No ma’am. I already moved out.'”

14. In 1975, Elton John played two iconic shows at Dodger Stadium, which he described as “a pinnacle” in his memoir, Me. Then, in 2022, it was only fitting that he closed out the US leg of his farewell tour at Dodger Stadium.

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On stage, he said, “We are making history tonight, the first-ever global stream on Disney+. And hello Dodger Stadium!”

15. Oscar Isaac’s first movie was The Avenger, which was a home movie he “wrote, directed, and starred in when [he] was 10 years old.” It included a scene where he played both parts. In 2021, he joined the Avengers-led MCU as the star of Moon Knight, which featured multiple scenes where he played both parts. He also re-created another scene on Saturday Night Live.

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In his SNL monologue, he said, “It’s important to encourage kids to be weirdos, because every once in a while, one of those weirdos grows up to host SNL.”

16. When 16-year-old Avril Lavigne visited LA for the first time, she wore her favorite “Skateboarding Is Not a Crime” hoodie and posed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Then, when 37-year-old Avril got her own star, she wore the same hoodie to the ceremony and re-created the old picture.

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She told Entertainment Tonight, “This was my favorite hoodie in high school, and I still have it today, so I thought, ‘OK, I gotta wear it.'”

17. And finally, in 2002, Jennifer Lopez released the album This Is Me… Then, which was inspired by her then-partner, Ben Affleck. They broke up in 2004, but after they got back together in 2021, she began working on her upcoming album This Is Me… Now, which is inspired by her now-husband, Ben Affleck.

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The song “Not. Going. Anywhere.” had a particularly special inspiration.

She told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, “That’s how he would sign his emails when we started talking again. Like, ‘Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere. Now, we know, and there’s no questions. It’s me and you, all the way, ’til the end.'”