Van Damme claims his own agent and lawyer were conspiring behind his back to cast a different client of theirs, Dolph Lundgren, as his twin so that they would earn twice as much money from contracts. Though it wasn’t that easy from the get-go. “I always wanted to impress people with the acting,” Van Damme said of the actioner inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s The Corsican Brothers and directed by Sheldon Lettich (watch our full Role Recall interview above, with Double Impact beginning at 2:56). By the time 1991’s Double Impact (which turns 30 Monday) rolled around - the actor, now 60, was a legit Hollywood sensation, and so much so that the film gave him both lead roles, playing twin brothers separated at birth who reunite 25 years later to avenge their parents' death. Thats literally true in Double Impact, in which the. This was all before 1988’s Bloodsport turned JCVD into an in-demand newcomer. With apologies to Cole Porter, its obvious that Jean-Claude Van Damme gets a kick out of himself. As he discussed during his Role Recall interview with Yahoo Entertainment, the “Muscles From Brussels” worked as an extra on films like the '80s hip-hop classic Breakin’, briefly played the Predator (as in the stunt performer in a costume) and once snuck onto Sylvester Stallone’s property hoping to pitch himself to the Rocky and Rambo icon. Jean-Claude Van Damme certainly paid his dues - and got creative - in his determination to make it as a Hollywood action star.
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