Jean-Claude Van Damme Tells Crazy Story About Bloodsport

here's my question because we don't have a lot of time left with you I was thinking about this today and because I was I was trying to think in my head why was I such a huge fan of you when I was a little kid and yes that part of it is just like the always beating up a bunch of people this is awesome I'm a teenage boy this is great and then I hit on something deeper that I was a chubby kid and to give me something to aim for to get me an ideal of what maybe one day my life isn't like this in high school right now you get boy to get picked on but maybe one day I won't be in this situation anymore and so now you're in a room and you have a lot of people watching right now that you have podcasters you have you have comedians you have actors what's the one piece of advice that you would give anybody that is getting into this world the that wants to be an entertainer because you seem to be a guy who is so insightful with what your career has been and how you've matriculated to this point what's the one piece of advice that you would tell anybody that has a dream to get into entertainment you have in your question you have to do you want to be first a star or an actor I'll give you the answer on the to me I became first a what we call a star like Stallone like Arnold I did a movie called bloodsport where I put my best 20 years it's like you know I want to do movie with you your name again sorry mark mark can you go do 25 years of karate which slow-motion kick like nobody can do today even UFC I can spoil I can spar with all of them I'm not on the ground but my legs nobody can see them coming okay I get that nice slow motion too many years like a dancer right right and I came and they gave me bloodsport the perfect movie to show a billboard story okay because they took summer was a good script by the way but it took some away from you know yeah yeah listen I'm on this guy's this and we came back with this movie and the movie was cut like a butcher I mean you see me jumping a three one shot 16 year this is real stuff at that time no CGI you see my event bogging I'm like 85 kilo of muscle and they come in the middle they go from from from my kick to my phrasing back so I sue the screening I start to cry and I going back to Manhattan growl inducing cannon because the first time I met him had he to split between two chairs all that stuff I show my muscle then he said to me and I'm Michael Dudikoff is a star Chuck Norris is a star he'll never be as tough and I heard that voice you can ask him to say go around the desk you better to beg right now so after five years of being here doing all kinds of job sometimes dealing food to survive when I made love to a girl and she take a shower I take her phone no iPhone at the time to call my parents to tell them I love them understand [ __ ] so no I go around and see please anything you have no tell apart anything anything anything and you seen my eyes a guy was gonna kill himself he goes sit down sit down this is the real story that nobody knows which I give to a podcast tonight cuz I go by people I don't go by sighs like again and again I think after you know I go what I love you guys so I give you everything so I go on the desk he said please sit down sit down because I don't want to tell you the scene what happened when I did go on the desk it's just wrong but he said please sit down sit down and that company was booming up and Heath he was he said you want a glass of milk I said yeah you want some cookies I said yeah would you think and you go garan bring me bloodsport and then like this you want to be a style and take your script gonna be your stuff like that on me and he said you have a drink yeah and I go yes of course how many great card so what you have an agent yes of course I said how could everything so I was paid $25,000 for bloodsport and there was $50,000 for the next one and $75,000 but when I received that movie they put down the movie on hold for another one year and I go back to Belgium and they call me the punching bowl of Chuck Norris because I trained with him right yeah yeah yeah yeah so that was my and my far is in shame my voice is a very serious guy I was making a Jima I have a Jim was making $2,000 a day mom I was making so much money with my Jim you know charming guy was selling clothes by the means I was making so much money sports cards and on the weekend I like to work I am a bouncer because they make a lots of money and you meet a lots of girls you know I was young I was like feel like it was that jean-claude van damme right and in America and I win than education than here talking to you and all this is what I am today

Channel: Collider Podcasts

Views: 885,830

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Id: X80GvnJvlNA

Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 05 2019