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No, not me.... Dolph Lundgren.
I found a quote a few days ago after watching a 'recent' Dolph Lundgren movie shot in China, called Diamond Dogs, after my own movie experience in China and hearing some behind the scenes information on what happened at the movie set I just had to watch the movie and see how it came out.
Not a particularly inspiring movie, very standard storyline, something I would have loved as a wannabe macho 14 year old boy struggling with hormonal changes and a new identity caused by this. Judging by what I heard the budget to be and the money they would have received from sales of distribution rights my guess is that the movie was a success by the only real measure producers and investors are interested in - financial.
This got me wondering about Dolph Lundgren's early career and how he got into movies in the first place....
Since I have lead you this far I'll give you a quick run down.
Dolph Lundgren became romantically involved with singer Grace Jones and/or was reportedly working as her bodyguard, Dolph himself calls her his girlfriend at the time, let's go with Dolph's version since I think he knows best.
Grace Jones was working on the James Bond film "A View To A Kill" and Dolph was hanging around onset near Paris, he was invited to play a small part and this then led him to join an acting school from there he went to many try outs.
Eventually he tried out for Rocky IV but was rejected for being too tall. 5000 auditioning hopefuls later he went in again and this time got the part, of course this then launched his career and he has never been short a part, or work since.
Personally after this point I am not too interested in his career until recently when he started writing and directing his movies as well as starring in them.
Bugger, sounds like he had an easy introduction to the business.
Still we do have quite a few similarities, and this is where the quote I found comes in:
My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful
like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well. - Dolph Lundgren
Jealousy from the low achievers, yes we have both felt that social affliction. Though I went and joined MENSA to prove to the world that I was not stupid, Dolph Lundgren goes the opposite direction and straight out denies that he is a genius and denies the claim that he has 160 IQ (funnily enough the same IQ attributed to Sylvester Stallone), but his many scholarship offers and the forgone invitation to join MIT to further his earlier Engineering studies would support that he is very highly intelligent.
For me personally it would be great to meet Dolph and have a chat about his career, even better would be to turn the tables on his early career and play the bigger bad guy against him as so much of his early career was playing big bad guys.
Wonder if he gets Google Alerts like I do, so that whenever my name comes up on the web I am aware of it and can read what others think about my work or the movies I have worked in, let's wait and see... probably not but you never know... :)
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