Jean-Claude Van Damme gets "depressed" when he isn`t working
The `Expendables 2` actor even hates having down time between scenes because it makes him "cranky and bored" but says the unhappiness is worth it because he comes alive in front of a camera.
He said: "I get depressed between the shoots. When it`s finished, when you are a bad guy in the movie, with that type of entity in your mind, you go back to your hotel and make faces.
"I`m very cranky, I get bored, I look at my table for hours and then when I get called for the movie I`m still bored in my trailer.
"But when the director says `action` that`s where I`m supposed to be. I want that experience.
"To be an actor it`s hard unless you can come in and come out. I cannot do that, it`s got to be all the way for me."
Jean-Claude credits the film, and its writer, Sylvester Stallone - who also stars in the movie - for resurrecting his career and helping him become a better actor.
Speaking at the UK premiere of the movie, he told BANG Showbiz: "There`s a DVD public and a movie public. I was DVD a year ago. People were like, `Hey JC, when you going to make a movie?` I`m like, `S**t I just made eight of them.` Well one day I`ll be back on the big screen.
"And because of `Expendables` - boom, big screen. I have the chance on the big screen since I became a better actor to reduce the exaggeration of my acting. I can use what`s inside.
"The great thing is on the big screen your eyes are like one metre each. You can see the soul of the actor and that`s why I love the big screen. Thank God to `Expendables 2` I`m back on the big screen so I can see myself act again. And thank to Sylvester Stallone for bringing me back."
Jean-Claude was joined on the red carpet at the premiere in London by his co-stars, including Sylvester, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jason Statham.
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