Remember a few posts ago when I said that I was excited that they were making a Street Fighter sequel and that if they were smart they would get Jean-Claude to reprise his role as Guile. Well, apparently they were, and Jean-Claude decided to rip out my heart and step on it by declining the role:
"In fact they called me for that movie, to do the sequel. Again, I would have been well paid but I didn't want to do it. I've made enough money. I don't want to make a movie and then come home and be unhappy about it. Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what? It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?"
Well good for you Jean-Claude, you're so happy about your new career and the direction your life is going. But you know what, you might've been unhappy about the sequel, but your loyal fans would've been extatic. So screw you Jean-Claude. You had the oppurtunity of a life time, to make me happy, and you turned it down. Congratulations on being the worlds biggest ass.
What's worse, although I have not seen it, Jean-Claude could have been in Rush Hour 3 as well. Imagine that team. Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, and Jean-Claude. That would have been one hell of a movie. But nooooo. Jean Claude is better than that now. Well you know what Jean-Claude, I'll never watch any of your movies again because of how you've broken my heart (excluding Blood Sport, Street Figther, Timecop, Universal Soldier, and Kickboxer).
And get this, Jean-Claude seems to think he is a real actor now. He said this about his newest movie J.V.C.D:
"After 37 movies, I said, "I will never do another movie I would not like." What Mabrouk did to me, it's like Scorsese did to De Niro years ago. It's a very different picture for Jean-Claude Van Damme."
It's a very different picture for Jean-Claude Van Damme? First of all Jean-Claude, don't talk in the third person, that's only for Todd to do. And second Jean-Claude, don't ever compareyourself to Robert De Niro. You're the "Muscles from Brussels" and that's all you'll ever be.
P.S.
Jean-Claude if you read this I'm a really big fan. I'm just a little upset that you would deny a role that you were born to play and that you forgot about your fans. I don't mean to be so harsh, but you should understand why I am so upset. I grew up on your class-A action films, and I just want to see a little of that old Jean-Claude that I know and love.
Yours Truly,
Todd Easton
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i hope that you heart can heal from this tragic event.
unfortunately, i think you are only one in a handful that are this affected by this decision.
get over it.
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