In action movies Jean Claude Van Damme is one of the greatest living legends of the genre. However, in the late 1980s and 1990s, her career was still enjoying its early success. Thus, she was about to be Predator for the film with Arnold Schwarzenegger before immortalizing herself with “Bloody Contact”, in which she shared scenes with the famous Bolo Yeung.
His fame was on the rise and he got the opportunity to star in “Cyborg” in 1989, a tape that would have been intended for Chuck Norris. Of course, this production aimed to be an achievement in the Belgian actor’s career, since it was his second leading role. However, it soon turned into a nightmare.
Action without control and an actor who went blind
“Cyborg” It was rated R due to its massive load of gory action. It was full of violent encounters and brutal murders, many of which were executed for the role played by Van Damme, gibson rickenbacker.
In this way, the character had to use his martial arts skills, in addition to his cybernetic modifications, to take down pirates and criminals armed with knives and swords. This was exactly what triggered the end.
According to an Associated Press report, Jackson ‘Rock’ Pinckneya stuntman and (at the time) a US Army soldier, accused Jean-Claude of stabbing him in the eye with a rubber knife during one of his scenes.
According to the medium, the sequence in question had Pinckney as a pirate. He was supposed to act like he was attacking Cyborg, so that Cyborg kicked the knife out of his hands and pierced his throat.
This did not happen and unfortunately the prop gun ended up in ‘Rock’s’ eye. The strong blow left him blind and, consequently, he was discharged from the Navy, as the damage was said to be permanent.
trial and sentence
The Screen Rant portal reports that, by 1993, Van Damme was brought to trial. Despite the fact that the artist’s defense argued that the actions of his representative were only the product of an accident, the jury determined that there was guilt in the act. They indicated this because other doubles declared that the interpreter used to go beyond the count with his blows.
In that sense, the court ruled against Jean-Claude and awarded Pinckney a sum of $487,000 in reparation.
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