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 Can you belive this guy actually started
out as a weak, thin nerd. No, well it's true , wenn he
was 10 years his father got him to start training karate.
Later he began training body-building, and at the age of
19 he became Belgian champion in karate. He then decided
to travel to America to be an actor, but it wasn't a
cakewalk. He had to work as a carpenter, bodyguard and so
on before he got his break. He managed to stun Menaham
Golan, a employer at Cannon, with some fancy footwork
wich led to a meeting. When he entered Golan's office he
grabbed to chairs and did the split position between them,
and explained that he was the best with no one above or
aside. Then Golan gave him the manuskript for Bloodsport.
It was a low budget movie, it costed only ten million.
And wenn it was done it was put on the shelf for two
years. Menaham saw the movie wenn it was done but didn`t
like it. Jean Claude himself said that the reason for
that was the director, he was lousy. Jean Claude then
made some music to the film and redirected some of the
scenes and the result was really something else. Wenn it
finally was released it became a success. Jean Claude
thought the movie was a piece of shit."But it has
some good fighting scenes and the story was nice, but
think what it would have been with a real director."
This is something Van Damme said in a Interview with
swedish Fighter. Short after Bloodsport Van Damme got
married with Gladys Portuquiz, a female bodybuilder and
one year later they got there first child. Bloodsport
wasn`t released yet and they really had a tough time.
After Bloodsport he got a lot of publicity and was called
the new action-star. Even Universal Studios gave him a
call and wanted to write a contract, and than they were
talking real cash. But Jean Claude already had a contract
with Cannon so it was nothing he could do. Then Cannon
called and wanted him to do a movie with Chuck Norris.
Later Cannon proposed a Ninja- movie with Michael
Dudikoff. Van Damme reacted by saying: "Come on
Menahem. Why do you want to put me up against these guys?
I`m Van Damme and Chuck Norris is Norris. Give me
something of my own. Then he showed him the script to
Cyborg and Van Damme understood that this was his movie.
Later he also got a part in Death Warrant . |
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| "The Muscles From
Brussels," won
the European Professional Karate Association's
middleweight championship as a teenager, and then took
his black belt to the greener pastures of the United
States, in 1981. The move wasn't immediately successful.
The aspiring actor--known then as Frank Cujo--took
English classes while working as a chauffeur, carpet
layer, pizza deliverer, trainer, and bouncer, before
being reduced to taking roles in Rue Barbare, No Retreat,
No Surrender, and other low-budget fare. His martial-arts
assets--highlighted by his ability to deliver a kick to
an opponent's head during a leaping, 360-degree turn--and
his dreamboat good looks led to starring roles in
increasingly bloody and increasingly well-budgeted flicks.
His violently acrobatic and realistic fight sequences in
such cult favorites as Bloodsport and Kickboxer became
legendary, and Van Damme was headed for headlining roles
in mainstream features.Like his physical gifts, the actor's
attitudes toward women are somewhat distinctive. He once
told a reporter, "I'm a little old-fashioned when it
comes to women. I like women to be there for me. I like
it when they cook--you know, the smell of food in the
kitchen. Women just don't cook anymore. I like rabbit
stews and horse meat." Van Damme has been through
three wives at last count, and wife number four, a former
Hawaiian Tropic pin-up girl named Darcy LaPier, has filed
for divorce on two different occasions, citing
irreconcilable differences both times. |
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