Bloodsport' at 35: How a desperate Jean-Claude Van Damme begged his way into the action film that made him a star
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JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME in LIONHEART (1990), directed by SHELDON LETTICH. Credit: GUILD / Album Stock Photo - Alamy
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