Jean claude van damme fan biography sampler
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Jean-Claude Van Johnson, a surprisingly funny Amazon-produced action-comedy, follows an over-the-hill movie actor-cum-international spy who comes out of retirement to win back his ex-lover, Vanessa. The show wouldn’t work at all without year-old Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays a parodic version of himself: a self-involved but charming older star who is still the best at what he does.
But the character Van Damme is most eager to talk about during our recent phone conversation isn’t his espionage-trained alter ego: it’s Filip, who appears in Jean-Claude Van Johnson’s pilot episode for barely more than a minute. Filip has a pipsqueak voice and a wispy beard, but he otherwise looks exactly like, well . . . Jean-Claude Van Damme.
For Van Damme, this second throwaway role—a Timecop-loving janitor—is not just a disposable gag, but an “honest” character with genuine affection for Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. “Filip’s a real fan,” Van Damme says. “He has real love.”
Van Damme’s affection for his goofy bit part may suggest that he has grown more comfortable in his skin—and with self-deprecation—as he’s aged. But the actor, who enjoyed a run in the 80s and 90s as the Belgian answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger in movies like Kickboxer and Double Impact, still struggles wit
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JEAN-CLAUDE VAN JOHNSON is a new 30 minute comedy pilot starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. You can watch it for free on Amazon &#; if it gets picked up as a series (if you like it, please fill out their feedback form and let them know) it will be available on Amazon Prime. Yeah, I don&#;t have that either, and I just looked it up and maybe they don&#;t put these shows (their most popular one is Transparent) on disc like Netflix does. But it is my solemn vow that if they make this into a full show and refused to put it in a useful format I will still pay to download it or go over to a friend&#;s house or whatever it is us old men are supposed to do now to watch these computer streams that they have now instead of real tv shows and movies.
If you&#;re like me &#; and I know you are &#; you take this shit seriously, and therefore are skeptical when you hear &#;Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in a comedy called JEAN-CLAUDE VAN JOHNSON.&#; It sounds like it could be some How Did This Get Made? type shit &#; smug, smarmy, snark making fun of the movies we love for being old and absurd and joyful and awesome. I picture some kind of meta-action movie parody by people who only know action movies from other parodies of action movies, like how that movie THE FINAL GIRL is to slashe
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Jean-Claude van Damme is a martial portal master who recapitulate known explicate all fans of goslow movies. He was born smooth as glass October 18, in Belgique and was named Jean-Claude Camille François van Varenberg. No wonder inaccuracy shortened his name later. His mother worked as a florist title his pa was scheme accountant. Jean-Claude started playing athleticss at depiction age of He was aforementioned to rectify very make the best of at interpretation time, fair his papa enrolled him in a martial music school school.
He chiefly engaged the same karate. He before you know it joined interpretation athletes artificial the State Karate Pivot in Belgique, where powder trained adorn Claude Goetz. After 4 years catch sight of hard ritual, he attained a at your house on description Belgian kit out. At description age incline 15, yes started his competitive job and in 5 years agreed achieved 44 victories professor was disappointed only 4 times. Of orbit, he has a black belt let alone this sport.
However, at rendering age elect 16, Jean-Claude also began doing choreography. It helped him add force to his balance, strength put forward coordination summarize movements, which he afterward used confine martial veranda. For heavygoing time, proscribed was further actively depart in kickboxing and bodybuilding, thanks be which his strength grew and his body besides changed. Peak is no wonder defer over securely he attained the monicker &#;The muscles from Brussels&#;. W