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Oh, it had to have sign off on everything, but inserting itself in like casting and all that.

And they were adamant that they had to cast Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile.

Who's like, first of all, an all-American G.I. Joe type soldier.

And Jean-Claude Van Damme is Belgian.

And by all accounts, a putrid actor.

But it just so happened to be the biggest action star at the time.

So for Capcom, they were like, that guy.

And honestly, I understand all the reasoning and the appeal and kind of the cult status even of this movie and his silly lines and his delivery make it what it is now.

But he's by far the worst part of this movie.

He's so bad.

He's

fucking awful.

It's like, I mean, everybody around him It's like, yeah, I mean, they're not getting, like, the best material, and they were filming just, like, all these chunks, like, and stuff.

But, like, everybody's making, like, pretty much making it work.

And it's like, yeah, it feels a little low budget, but it's fun.

And then, like, he gets on screen, and you're like, oh, my God, just get the fuck out of here.

So he's, like, the absolute worst guy you could have ever imagined.

I was going to throw it to you.

I know you mentioned Arnold, but I was thinking Brian Bosworth from Stone Cold.

If you remember that, he was huge and he was like blonde.

So like, I kind of would have, I mean, he's a total nobody kind of in the action world, but like I would have been, if you weren't going to make the movie about Guile, like as the main character, I would have been like, Hell yeah, man.

I was thinking him too.

I was thinking him too.

But the thing was, I was, I figured you would want an American for Guile.

Yeah.