Danny DeVito Worked As Hairdresser For Deceased Elderly Women Before Becoming An Actor

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According to Danny DeVito, before he was a movie star, he used to trim the hair of the deceased.

To be really honest, I feel like Danny DeVito is one of those famous guys about whom you could make up any crazy tale and people would still believe it because he is Danny DeVito and that is what he does.

However, this one comes straight from the source; DeVito has admitted that back in his younger days, he used to visit morgues and style the hair of deceased women.

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Prior to becoming a well-known actor, he worked as a beautician in New Jersey at his sister's salon, which ultimately led to a peculiar job as the deceased's barber.

DeVito eventually joined the American Academy of Dramatic Arts after being sent there to learn how to apply makeup properly, and that position also paved the path for his acting career.

DeVito revealed this on a recent edition of The Always Sunny Podcast, saying that although he initially worked as a barber, after some of his clients passed dead, he eventually began cutting the hair of corpses.

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He said: "One of my clients died. Not in the chair - thank god not in the chair. She died but her family asked me to do her hair for the coffin.”

"It was the first time that happened and subsequently I did several because I - my sister kept giving me - I would go to the mortician, I would go to the morgue. Come on, this has got to be a future Sunny episode."

"Seriously they're dead, they're there, they're done up by the mortician, they're in the box and I would be the last person, I would take their hair and use the dry setting lotion and curl the hair, set the hair, take it out and fluff it up a little."

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When DeVito's Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-stars found out that he had essentially worked as a "part-time mortician" in his earlier years, they were shocked.

After attempting to master makeup application and being informed that he would need to enroll in the entire performing school for his training, DeVito entered the world of acting.

He has been a regular cast member of Always Sunny since 2005, despite the fact that occasionally his co-stars play pranks on him by inventing an entire false episode simply to tease him on the first of April.

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On set, he loves to take around his personal supply of peaches that are marked "Danny DeVito's, please don't touch."

DeVito believes his portrayal of the Batman villain The Penguin in Batman Returns was superior to Colin Farrell's more recent interpretation. It is one of his other remarkable roles for which fans will remember him.