Although the action cinema of the 80s and a good part of the 90s is a matter of two –Schwarzenegger and Stallone-, other actors made their way among so many films focused on giving out blows left and right. Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris and Dolph Lundgren are some of them, although the Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme stands out above all of them thanks to such iconic films as ‘Bloody contact‘, ‘Timecop’, ‘Kickboxer‘, ‘Lionheart‘, ‘Double impact‘, ‘Universal Soldier’, ‘Nowhere to Run‘, ‘Hard Target‘ either ‘Sudden death‘, among other. Even the actor also known as “The Muscles of Brussels” or “JCVD” is considered braver than the two superstars of gender; He admitted this in an interview with The Daily Mail a few months ago.
Van Damme the globetrotter
Thus, reviewing various aspects of his long career, Van Damme wanted to highlight that He considers himself braver than Schwarzenegger and Stallone when accepting roles around the world: “For a guy like me it’s impossible to be out of work.. I speak French and some English. Now I’m going to make two French films. Arnie and Sly are afraid of going international, but I am a globetrotter. I’ve been to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan everywhere. I suppose they are considered dangerous countries, but I have always been well received there,” explains Van Damme.
And while Schwarzenegger and Stallone have always remained within Hollywood blockbusters, Van Damme considers himself braver than the protagonists of ‘Terminator‘ and ‘Rocky‘, respectively, at the time of take on new projects around the world. Currently, after releasing ‘Darkness of Man‘ -where he plays an Interpol agent-, Van Damme works on ‘Le Jardinier‘, a French action comedy in which it is Leothe gardener of a family that ends up on a government blacklist after the father of the family’s involvement in a big state secret.
