What does it say about us that we're a little sad to know that Jean Claude Van Damme turned down a role in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li? The '80s action hero revealed to MTV that he was offered the chance to appear in the new movie (presumably reprising his role as Guile), in an interview that made us feel a little sad for the Muscles From Brussels.
"They called me for that movie, to do the sequel," he said. "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."
Street Fighter: The Movie was, of course, pustalant bilge. But there's something strange inside us that wishes he'd said yes. Is it because the movie was so bad that we've grown to love it a little bit, as long as we never actually have to sit through it again? Is it that it just seems too long since we've seen Van Damme near a big screen doing anything? Might it be that we're still a tad exhausted from the weekend and not thinking properly? Is it that instead of Van Damme in the new movie, we're getting Chris Klein?...Yep, we think it's the last one.
To read the full interview, click here.
And, yes, it is a little slow on the news front today.