Jean Claude VANDAMME Interview : About THE EXPENDABLES 3 (2014) & STEVEN SEAGAL
Vandamme for
Expendables 3 as
Claude Vilain,
Jean Vilain's twin brother!
Mr. Church reunites the
Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Sylvester Stallone ... Barney Ross
Jason Statham ...
Lee Christmas
Jean-Claude Van Damme ... Vilain
Jet Li ...
Yin Yang
Dolph Lundgren ... Gunnar
Jensen
Chuck Norris ...
Booker
Bruce Willis ...
Church
Arnold Schwarzenegger ... Trench
Terry Crews ...
Hale Caesar
Randy Couture ... Toll
Road
Liam Hemsworth ...
Bill The Kid
Scott Adkins ...
Hector
Nan Yu ...
Maggie
Amanda Ooms ...
Pilar
Charisma Carpenter ...
Lacy
Los indestructibles Os Mercenários Неудержимые
Expendables 2: unité spéciale Gansidui I mercenari Los mercenarios
In
1982,
Van Damme and childhood friend,
Michel Qissi, moved to
America in the hope of becoming action stars. They both were cast as extras in the film,
Breakin'. Van Damme also had a non-speaking part as a
Secret Service agent who carries a polio-crippled
President Franklin Roosevelt (
Ralph Bellamy) out of a pool in the
1988 TV miniseries War and Remembrance. After a small part in
Missing In Action, Van Damme was next cast in the film
No Retreat, No Surrender, as the role of the villain,
Ivan the Russian. Van Damme worked for director
John McTiernan for the
1987 film Predator as an early (eventually abandoned) version of the titular alien, before being removed and replaced by
Kevin Peter Hall.[24] His breakout film was
Bloodsport, based on the alleged true story of
Frank Dux.
Double Impact featured Van Damme in the dual role of
Alex and
Chad Wagner, two brothers fighting to avenge the deaths of their parents. This film reunited him with his former Bloodsport co-star,
Bolo Yeung. He then starred opposite Dolph Lundgren in the action film
Universal Soldier. While it grossed $36,299,898 in the
U.S., it was an even bigger success overseas, making over $65 million, well over its modest $23 million budget, making it Van Damme's highest grossing film at the time. Van Damme followed
Nowhere To Run and
Hard Target with
Timecop in
1994. The film was a huge success, grossing over $
100 million worldwide
. In the film, Van Damme played a time traveling cop, who tries to prevent the death of his wife. It remains his highest grossing film in a lead role to date.
After his role in the poorly received
Street Fighter, his projects started to fail at the box office.
Sudden Death (
1995);
The Quest (
1996), which he directed;
Maximum Risk (1996),
Double Team (
1997) and
Knock Off (
1998) were box-office flops. The
1999 film Universal Soldier:
The Return, also a box-office flop, was Van Damme's last theatrically released film until 2008. In
2003, Van Damme employed his dancing training in the music video for
Bob Sinclar's "
Kiss My Eyes."
Van Damme returned to the mainstream with the limited theatrical release of the
2008 film JCVD, which received positive reviews.
Time Magazine named Van Damme's performance in the film the second best of the year (after
Heath Ledger's
The Joker in
The Dark Knight),[26]
He was offered a lead role in Sylvester Stallone's film
The Expendables (
2010). Stallone called Van Damme personally to offer him the role, but Van Damme turned it down. He scheduled a series of film projects for
2011, including another Universal Soldier movie. On 30 June 2011, Van Damme confirmed his participation in
The Expendables 2, which was released on 17
August 2012.[29]
The thriller
Enemies Closer which would re-unite him with Timecop and Sudden Death director
Peter Hyams.
In August 2012 Van Damme confirmed that Universal Soldier:
Day of Reckoning would be released on
November 30,
2012 to theaters. The film would also again co-star Dolph Lundgren. Van Damme also said that he would love to make a sequel to what he considers his best film, Double Impact, and that a script, which he co-wrote for the sequel, has been written, and that he is hoping to find a producer that will get behind the project.[31]
Van Damme indicated that Stallone might include him in
The Expendables 3, in which Van Damme would play Claude
Villain, the brother to his Expendables 2 character Jean Villain.[32]