Action man Steven Seagal's representatives have confirmed the actor is in talks to join the cast of Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse spin-off movie Machete.

Once Upon A Time In Mexico star Danny Trejo has filed for divorce from his wife of 11 years.

Throughout cinematic history, there has been a plethora of actors that, for some reason or another, never become a household name.

The "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," singer Mary J. Blige, was goofing around in a mall as a teenager making a demo in a karaoke booth. Anchorman Stone Phillips was waiting tables. Supermodel Cindy Crawford was a college freshman shucking corn at a fair in Illinois.

Reformed criminal Danny Trejo got his first acting job after the director saw the tough guy scare the life out of Eric Roberts. The former convict and heroin addict, 63, was hired as a boxing instructor on 1985 film Runaway Train, but the director gave him his acting debut after he was impressed by Trejo's attitude towards the film's cast.

Kind hearted Robert De Niro has spent time in jail offering help to prison convicts. De Niro met actor Danny Trejo on the set of Michael Mann's 1995 crime epic Heat, and he was intrigued to hear the Hollywood tough guy - who is a reformed criminal - regularly gives motivational talks to prison inmates. And Trejo was quick invite the Hollywood legend along.

Hardman actor Danny Trejo movie career is so prolific, he often forgets the movies he's starred in. The Once Upon a Time in Mexico star, who started acting in the 1980s, often watches a movie and then becomes shocked when he appears on screen because he had no idea he was in it.

Tough-guy Danny Trejo finds working with method actors unbearable, threatening to "beat them to death". The From Dusk To Dawn star find actors who practice the intense acting style take themselves too seriously - and makes sure they know of his displeasure.

Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino will still produce a Grindhouse spin-off - despite the film's poor performance at the box office. The double-bill movie has been spilt into two separate films for its international release - Tarantino's Death Proof and Rodriguez's Planet Terror - in a bid to impress European audiences after its disappointing showing in the U.S.

Rapper Snoop Dogg is teaming up with Britney Spears' one-time big screen boyfriend, Anson Mount, for a new horror movie, which will premiere at the upcoming L.A. Film Festival in California. The star plays host to a trio of blood-soaked terror tales involving the residents of an inner city neighborhood, whose actions in this life determine their destination in the next.