The trend in Hollywood now is to get incredibly famous, THEN secure a lucrative contract modeling underwear to make yourself even MORE famous by appearing on huge billboards in your skivvies. But, in the past, many of today’s A-list stars actually used skimpy shoots to get noticed and break into Hollywood to start their amazing acting careers. We take a look at who has stripped down for various underwear shoots over the years.

Actor Kellan Lutz is making the slow and steady climb up to leading-man status in Hollywood, with two major films out this month—Immortals and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Fans may know everything about his character Emmett Cullen, but we get the enthusiastic actor to tell us five things you might not know about Lutz.

Getting psyched to see Breaking Dawn—Part 2 in theaters? Well, while you wait, check out these old-school pics of the Twilight cast before they were stars!