Jean-Claude Van Damme says Vin Diesel didn’t want him in a Fast & Furious movie
Van Damme should've been in these movies by now, but we can blame Vin Diesel for stopping it
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The Fast & Furious movies are all about family, but Vin Diesel is very serious about controlling who is and is not a part of that family. Rita Moreno? Brie Larson? Scott Eastwood? Pull up a chair, grab a Corona. Welcome to the familia. But Dwayne Johnson? You can stand and drink something else until you have atoned for your sins. And now we have another name to add to the list of people who are doomed to be left out in the cold, unable to join the familia at the pre-credits barbecue at the end of the movie: Jean-Claude Van Damme.
That’s what Van Damme said in a recent interview with The Telegraph, at least, noting that “they” wanted him in a Fast & Furious movie but that Vin Diesel apparently said, “No, I don’t want him.” That, sadly, is the extent of the anecdote, meaning we don’t have any idea what movie this would’ve been for or what kind of character Van Damme could’ve played, but it probably would’ve been one of the more recent entries, where Diesel really started to control everything that happened (or at least that’s the impression that every single behind-the-scenes story gives off).
Could he have been Dom’s brother? He would make the same amount of sense as John Cena. How about the villainous Cipher? Van Damme could pull off Charlize Theron’s weird bowl cut in whichever movie that was. He wouldn’t make a ton of sense replacing Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody, since he has more of a “Belgian martial artist” vibe than an “American government agent” vibe, but these movies aren’t big on simple logic.
He really could’ve played any character at any point in this series, and he probably should have played at least one by now. Have we ever met Brian’s parents? Jean-Claude Van Damme could come in as Mr. O’Connor, a retired police officer or something who taught Paul Walker’s character everything he knows about saving the world, and Dom and Mia have to track him down to help do whatever in the next movie.
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“Jean-Claude Van Damme could come in as Mr. O’Connor, a retired police
officer or something who taught Paul Walker’s character everything he
knows about saving the world, and Dom and Mia have to track him down to
help do whatever in the next movie.”That sound you hear is a dumptruck full of money backing up your driveway.
That would be especially delightful considering that they explain the absence of Walker’s character as basically “he’s happy raising a family and just can’t be asked to save the world or help his friends”.
I like to think Diesel saw Van Damme first express his support for Trump and then say that the Illuminati, Rockefellers and Rothschilds might prevent Trump from winning the election and went “nah, thanks”.
It is really saying something that we can imagine Vin being the reasonable party in this exchange. Man, JCVD.
No no, he could still be in the franschise. The next one can explore time travel, reincarnation, and past lives. As Dom accidentally travels back to World War 2 and discover JC Van Damme is his him from a past life. JCVD is a past life Dom that is a mercenary soldier/Euro race car driver, playing for both sides for the money and thrills. He discovers that his past self in another life is trafficking his Toretto family relative that is a captured soldier to a POW camp. If he doesn’t convince JCVD to change his ways and escape the nazis and their team of elite drivers, the WW2 Toretto soldier will die in the POW camp and Dom will never be reincarnated and reborn as Dom and the whole Fast and Furious franschise would never happen.
Bloodsport-man just isn’t fast or furious enough these days?
His movies are wildly popular. I’ve seen them on overnight buses in Thailand and Peru. They were also boring enough to put me to sleep. How he managed not to get permanently disabled making some of them is kind of a miracle.
Meanwhile, Steven Seagal bragged that Vin Diesel was scared that he would upstage Dom in lovemaking scenes.There is a love scene—and, Jesus, what a love scene. His fully dressed body is lowered over a naked woman like a drawbridge. He doesn’t take off his glasses. He never takes off his glasses.
So, let us ponder: who would be a better lover?a) A fit European?b) A anthropomorphised store-brand canned ham with a Grecian 2000 ponytail who no doubt insists that ranch dressing is a perfectly acceptable substitute for lube?
I think the easy and always correct answer to your question is…sexy Steven Seagal.
“C’mon, baby, just smear this bacon grease on your butthole. I’m outta Snickers rappers to use as condoms, and my seed is too potent for your birth control to withstand. It’ll roundhouse kick its way straight through your diaphragm.”
That “lowered over a naked woman like a drawbridge” line has stayed with me ever since, and it never fails to make me smile. We miss you, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.
Meanwhile my coke dealer (I’ve been clean for about a decade but you got to keep your connections) really wants Van Damme to show up. Damn now I’m going to go watch the truck ad with him and the enya music.
Van Damme’s a garbage person and a joke as an actor. The F&F standards may not be high, but they’re higher than that.
Gina Carano. Rhonda Rousey.JCVD would be among peers.
Fair, but we didn’t realize those two were awful when they were cast. Really, we didn’t understand just how awful seemingly normal people could be until 2016.
Shut up you gronk
Is he garbo? I know he’s been through some shit but haven’t watched JCVD or any docus.
Homophobic remarks and assault allegations, for starters.
That is not a good picture.
Looks like a still from Team America.
Imagine that. An entire career of being called difficult to work with, and suddenly no one wants to work with you.
This seems pretty simple to me. JCVD isn’t a star anymore and he was never a particularly good actor. Would have been fine as a cameo but no chance he makes as much sense as Cena or any of the other names mentioned nowadays.
I mean if we’re going to write an article for every time people in charge of casting didn’t want JCVD to be in their film we’re going to be here for awhile.
“Van Damme should’ve been in these movies by now”Um…why?
Turns out his name is actually Dom van Damme.
*Venus Van Dam
Based on that picture, dude’s in either very good or very bad shape. i can’t tell which.
Turns out Dom has another long-lost brother he (and his sister) never mentioned.
JEan Claude smells like a wet ashtray. Non actor