No one does the splits like the Muscles from Brussels – Jean-Claude Van Damme. Catching up with him at Cannes (where his self targeted documentary JCVD was shown) he was quoted as being dead serious about his craft.
Jean-Claude Van Damme spoke to MTV while in Cannes, and he said: “I’m a brand name. I’m not just a guy. I think I’m ready to be decent. I’m hungry to make movies, but movies with deeper characters. I want respect. I want to believe in myself.”
The article continues to speculate that after 37 films he finally decided he wants to be serious about movies and is hungry to get back at it. I can kind of see how this many films could get made. Like VanDamme himself says, he isn’t a person, he is a brand name. If they wanted to put me in senseless film after film where I didn’t really have to try that hard… I’d do 37 of those in a row!
I heard he did a little cop movie in which people were saying he wasn’t terrible and some even went as far as to suggest that he showed some serious promise. Could we be entering a new era in which VanDamme is considered among serious actors? Who knows.
Im kinda rooting for the guy. I just have a good feeling about him.
