Okay, he's not that old. But when we were 22-year-old journalists we might have been a little creeped out if 48-year-old Jean-Claude Van Damme hit on us during an interview.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened when Van Damme (who's currently married to his fifth wife) sat down with Newsweek's Sarah Ball to promote his new movie JCVD.
Jean-Claude: I really opened myself up in “JCVD.” I peeled back the skin of the fruit, cut the pulp and then took that very hard seed. In this film I cut that hard seed, and inside that seed was a kind of liquid cream substance of the man I am, or the woman you are.
Newsweek reporter: OK –
Jean-Claude: It was like being naked — I would love to be naked in front of you.
Newsweek reporter: Well, I –
Jean-Claude: Not being naked being naked. I say such things in Hong Kong and they thought I was being a crazy Frenchman. Being naked of protection.
Newsweek reporter: So you’ve no regrets at all?
Jean-Claude: Believe me — I’ve done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don’t regret the crazy stuff. So are you in New York?
Newsweek reporter: Yes, I am.
Jean-Claude: And are you 27, or 32?
Newsweek reporter: I ‘ m 22.
Jean-Claude: Oh, f—. That is very young. Will you come to the premiere?
Newsweek reporter: I don’t know. When is it?
Jean-Claude: I don’t know. You will wear all black, a black dress and high heels?
Newsweek reporter: Uh –
Jean-Claude: You can come find me, I will be the one with the very broad shoulders, dark hair and a simple suit. We can have some champagne, you and me.
So is he a creep or just being French? In college, we were pretty sure a professor was hitting on us in a avery similar manner, except, in class. But we didn't report it because we thought he was "just being French."
[Newsweek via Faded Youth]
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