Surprisingly, since everything about it screams 'restart'!, Jean Claude Van Damme was approached to star in the new “Street Fighter” sequel – no doubt reprising his role as the heroic Guile.
Talking to MTV.ca, the former time-traveling law-enforcer says he knocked back an offer to join Kristin Kruek and Michael Clark Duncan in the new “Street Fighter”.
''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?'', Van Dammage, who currently appears in “The Shepherd : Border Patrol”, says.
Brett Ratner also offered Jean Claude a role – the villain role I assume? - in the latest “Rush Hour” movie but, says the actor, “if I do an action movie today I cannot walk through the streets and do karate moves. I would not believe it anymore. It's hard for me to say that. I cannot go and do three somersaults. I would feel like a monkey. So "Rush Hour," even though I would have been well paid, would have been difficult for me to accept
Source: MovieHole
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