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Article: Van Damme stays `sensitive' as tough guy in movies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 18, 1991
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NEW YORK Sometimes fondly known as "Muscles From Brussels," karate
master Jean-Claude Van Damme is an action-movie hero with a soft
side.
The former Belgian middleweight karate champ, who has starred
as tough guys in "Cyborg," "Kickboxer" and "Death Warrant," calls
himself "a romantic, sensitive person in an envelope of muscles."
Van Damme said the actors he especially admires - Christopher
Walken, Marlon Brando, the late Montgomery Clift, "all those good
guys" - shared a certain sensitivity.
"What I admire is being strong physically, but with something
behind it - knowing there's nothing wrong with being sensitive," said
the star of the current hit "Lionheart," now in its second week ...