The rejuvenation of Jean-Claude Van Damme is going great

Enjoy your beer, Jean-Claude!

A few years back, you may remember people talking about Jean-Claude Van Damme going through a career rejuvenation after the really rather good JCVD; a quasi-confessional pseudo-drama in which the Belgian owned up to cinematic sins and promised to better himself. He also made lots of faces like this:



Well done, Jean-Claude, we all said. Turns out he can act after all.

Fast-forward to 2011, and this happened. This is a trailer for a film called Napoleon Kaput. Sources say it's Russian, but I'm pretty sure this was shot in the language Pingu speaks in. Anyway, see if you can spot a familiar face in amongst the men in drag and the mass-spankings.



Apparently, Van Damme turned up on set thinking he was playing a lead role, but he was politely informed that, actually, he was just needed for a cameo. In a film called Napoleon Kaput. There are no emoticons sad enough to convey how tragic that is.

Still, at least Van Damme has his dignity.





Ah.