{"id":1143,"date":"2009-02-08T12:29:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2009-02-08T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T16:29:45","slug":"why-jcvd-is-not-expendable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/why-jcvd-is-not-expendable\/","title":{"rendered":"Why JCVD is not Expendable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalfilm.com\/news\/van-damme-talks-stallone-s-the-expendables\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TotalFilm.com has an excerpt from their interview with Jean-Claude Van Damme about why he turned down a role in &#8220;The Expendables.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> Here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cStallone gave me a part in his next movie,&#8221; he told us. &#8220;But I ask him about the subject, about the story.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;He said, \u2018You\u2019re gonna make lots of money.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to hear that, I want to hear what was my character.\u00a0 He was unable to tell what it\u2019s going to be.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;[Stallone said:] &#8216;You know, uh, well, the fighting will be good.&#8217; [So I said:] &#8216;Sly, what is my character?&#8217; So I didn\u2019t do the movie.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can understand<strong> Van Damme<\/strong> wanting to know about his character, but since<strong> Sly<\/strong> is writing the piece and would adapt each character to the actor, perhaps <strong>Van Damme<\/strong> should have taken a leap of faith and signed on.\u00a0 The full interview with <strong>Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/strong> can be found in <strong>Total Film<\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TotalFilm.com has an excerpt from their interview with Jean-Claude Van Damme about why he turned down a role in &#8220;The Expendables.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what he had to say: \u201cStallone gave me a part in his next movie,&#8221; he told us. &#8220;But I ask him about the subject, about the story.&#8221; &#8220;He said, \u2018You\u2019re gonna make lots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-ir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}