After laughing over something completely absurd and outrageous in the cinema, I broke down and did some real crying. The culprit? This is a paraphrase of something Jean-Claude Van Damme said about making Steven E. de Souza’s Street Fighter: The Last Stand.
The Guile and Cammy Spin-Off We Didn’t Get to See
Let us picture the set of the film based on the Capcom computer game. All persons worked in a joyfully crazy setting, full of possibilities of crazy love stories blooming from nowhere. At least that’s what happened, Van Damme himself reminiscing on purportedly having a fling with Kylie Minogue expresses his gall to The Guardian.
So far, so good. It was the nineties and a couple of hot stars playing for the cameras almost every day walking around in costumes of Guile and Cammy. This too seemed unavoidable. However, it is the real nightmare and the parody of movies that how JCVD justified revealing this revelation made everybody cringe and laugh. Prepare yourself because the quotation is brilliant.
“It happened. It was in Thailand, we had an affair. Sweet kisses, beautiful sex… It would have been abnormal not to have had an affair. She is beautiful; she used to be in front of me every day with that smile… She didn’t behave in the manner of a big star. I was very acquainted with Thailand so I introduced her to my Thailand. She’s a wonderful lady.”
Yes, you are correct: ‘I showed her my Thailand.’ This is the edit and a comment that he could have made but to say ‘I showed her my Thailand’ is quite puzzling considering the different ways he could have put it. In as much as we can joke about that – and trust me, I was one of the first – that must and still is a crass turn of phrase. No one would picture Kylie Minogue making a comment on any of her alleged affairs with Jean-Claude Van Damme who, while doing the film was on some high- no one would drop that on a woman.