Denise Van Outen. "'OK, Jean-Claude, what’s he doing?' Hey, at least he won (which means hopefully he got some cash out of it). That was the sum total of work [I] had to do.”, Hardy made his big-screen debut in 2001 as well, playing Twombly in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. Jean Claude Van Damme attends the Cannes Film Festival. 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He’s the sh*t!,’” Hardy told The Daily Beast. This article contains affiliate links to products selected by our editors. That’s fine. —E.S. “He was sort of, if you could call it, comic relief to [a] very precarious situation.”, While attending the Drama Centre London, Hardy looked up to a fellow student who was two years older than him: Michael Fassbender. It has to need reinvention; it has to need you. In the latter, he played twins out to avenge the death of their father. What better way to embrace spooky season than with this collection, which features real-life accounts of exorcisms from around the globe? Awash in gruesome imagery and some of the most disturbing acts of violence ever put on the page, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian isn’t a horror tale of the jump-scare variety. Bambi would probably do me. Van Damme helped re-cut the film with screenwriter Sheldon Lettich and Carl Kress, an editor who worked on 1974’s The Towering Inferno. Get exclusive deals, product news, reviews, and more with the Mental Floss Smart Shopping newsletter. “I didn’t have any fight, thank God. I look at him and I want to be like that for my generation—I want to have that same quality. and just all of it really. After shooting Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Hardy checked himself into rehab. “I’d worn a blue shirt and jeans and a blue blazer and been doing my best Hugh Grant impression. But he was the best actor in the school.” (Fassbender, too, landed a role in Band of Brothers.). Tom Hardy - A young Tom Hardy wins a model contest on 'The Big Breakfast', back in 1998 - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 28th March 2013 (9 Pictures) I’ve always been a liar, always been able to manipulate. King's debut novel from 1974 still ranks among his best. Johnny Vaughn. I was a real road crash ... By the time I went to Pittsburgh to film Warrior I had two hours of boxing, two hours of Muay Thai, two hours of Jiu-Jitsu, two hours of choreography, and two hours of weightlifting a day, every day for eight weeks. The Belgian-born actor and martial artist used his flexibility to great effect in action classics like 1988’s Bloodsport, 1989’s Kickboxer, and 1994’s Timecop. It revolves around a teenage outcast named Carrie White who gets bullied at school and has to deal with an abusive mother at home. I wonder what the next installment of that franchise would become, and I think when you mention someone like Christopher Nolan, that’s a very powerful figure to bring into that world who could bring something new and create something profound … again.”, When asked whether he’d be into reinventing another franchise, Nolan told Playboy “definitely … I’ve spoken to the producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson over the years. There’s only so much imagination you can use before you have to go out and live life again. His candidness and casualness (remember these MySpace images) is always refreshing and we’ve just uncovered the BEST video of him, ever because back in 1998, a 20-year-old Tom Hardy joined Johnny Vaughn and Denise Van Outen on The Big Breakfast for a modelling competition. With his star on the rise, Hardy was forced to confront an issue he had been dealing with since his teens: a serious alcohol and crack addiction. This earned him a meeting in Golan’s office, in which a shirtless Van Damme convinced Golan he was skilled, charismatic, and most importantly, cheap. Any hope she has of fitting in is soon dashed as she begins developing strange telekinetic abilities. Even the biggest stars have to start out somewhere, and for And yes, he won. The thought of going into work day in and day out to play someone who is just mind-numbingly boring fills me with dread, so I don't bother. Promoting his Amazon Prime series Jean-Claude Van Johnson in 2017, the actor joked about the generic flavor of the films. —J.S. After a tense shoot on 1987’s Predator, in which Van Damme was cast as the titular alien but was replaced during production, the actor wanted to find a role better-suited to his talents. Since making his onscreen debut in 2001, the London native has gone on to collaborate with some of the world’s most talented filmmakers, including Ridley Scott, George Miller, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sofia Coppola, and Christopher Nolan. He also created, produced, and starred in the FX hit Taboo and earned an Oscar nomination for his role in The Revenant—and all of this before hitting the big 4-0. Career 1998–2010. “He was in an Irish play about this guy who came back from the First World War who was a great athlete but ended up in a wheelchair, but at lunchtime he wouldn’t come out of character and was always in his wheelchair and we’d be like, ‘Dude! While Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were considered the apex of the 1980s action movie hero, genre fans found a more graceful alternative in Jean-Claude Van Damme.