in 1982 Steven Segal started under siege
an action flick that grossed over a
hundred and fifty million worldwide 11
years later he started in the foreigner
a movie with the zero-percent rating on
rotten tomatoes
basically this guy has come a long way
down since the nineteen nineties but in
addition to his messy movie career
signal has been involved in a long
string of weird incidents both behind
the scenes and off the set entirely
while his career is often derided by
critics
there's no denying single lives one
wildlife Steve be on set diva
according to multiple actors Steven
Segal is an incredibly difficult
coworker john leguizamo found out the
hard way while in rehearsals for
executive decision leguizamo laughed at
something to call it said Stephen
responded with an executive decision of
his own he came up and he he taekwondo
to my ass against a break i want he's
six foot five and caught me off-guard
not why why then there's the glimmer man
where the script calls for cigars
character to kill a serial murder played
by legendary character actor stephen
tobolowsky am I right or am i right or
am i right right i take all decided he
didn't want to kill so many people in
movies anymore and even tried convincing
Tobolowsky that his serial killer
character should live the scene was
eventually films written and tab allows
skis murder met his maker my entire
chest explodes like my heart explodes
like blood slides out at the camera and
I fall out of frame and smoke rises of
course is filming progressed segal
improvised lines about how he sure was
glad he didn't kill that guy in the
church the film's director called
Tobolowsky and to record some extra
dialogue to make it seem like his
characters onscreen death was a little
less permanent what he settle on I ended
up shouting up finish me off your son of
them
come on don't leave me like this
killed a breaking bond Steven Segal has
done quite a bit of fight choreography
according to IMDb most of the films
choreographed his own but in the early
eighties sick all worked on the james
bond film never say never again having
been brought on board to teach Sean
Connery some aikido meanwhile Connery
was already well-versed in karate a
having been awarded an honorary
third-degree black belt while preparing
for 1967 you only live twice Connery
explain what went down when the pair
work together in an interview on Jay
Leno's Tonight Show in 1996 and I got a
little cocky because I thought I knew
what I was doing because you know the
principal is Defense Department and I
got a bit flash and i did that and he
broke my wrist
Wow and martial arts master lousy
fighter I have something in my pocket
right now completely clear up that
bruise on your forehead
what proof there's no denying that
Steven Seagal's an accomplished martial
artist he's a legit 7th dan and aikido a
martial art that relies on joint locks
in the redirection of momentum he was
even the first American to teach aikido
in Japan but more than a few fighters
think that Aikido is actually kind of
worthless when it comes to self-defense
fight analyst jack slack says aikido
only works if your opponent is running
straight at you something most smart
fighters never actually do UFC
commentator and fighting fan Joe Rogan
as dakedo would never work against a
trained fighter never not in a million
years
mafia target Steven Segal has battled
all sorts of bad guys on the silver
screen from terrorists to the Yakuza but
scholars also faced some scary villains
in real life namely the Mafia according
to a new york times story from 2002
segal was once brought before a Gambino
crime family captain named anthony sunny
get going
the mob boss ordered him to start
working with producer Julius are not so
with whom he had a successful working
relationship in the nineties before the
two had a falling out
segal was so freaked out that he gave
the gangsters over half a million bucks
the scandal came to light in 2003 and
NASA was sentenced to one year in
federal prison
seagulls insane raid if you couldn't
tell Vince tomography Steven Seagal is
fascinated with law enforcement
well with the exception of under siege
you like some special forces guy or
something
just cook a cook anyway Seagal actually
served as a cop in Jefferson Parish
Louisiana for about 20 years in 2009
seagull took things to the next level by
starring in a reality show called steven
seagal lawman in the third season Seagal
teamed up with the controversial sheriff
joe arpaio of maricopa county arizona in
2011 Arpaio orchestrated arrayed against
his sucio Farrah a local man suspected a
cockfighting but when the cops showed up
they had a lot more than just a warrant
they're up to 40 SWAT officers a bomb
squad k9 units and even armored vehicles
we hope to take the suspect anybody else
who's inside the hospital and what could
be more surprising than the police tanks
that tore down the gates the embarrass
property for the damage done to parts of
his house during the raid this peacock
had no idea what to expect
Guevara eventually pled guilty to
cockfighting and the 115 roosters that
he kept his house for saved right wrong
apparently the police actually utilize
them all so that's something sweet moves
Stephen with a career as varied as
Steven Seagal's it's important to
remember that he's not just about
punching kicking and killing lots of
chickens this dude also plays the guitar
blues band
and sometimes he does well whatever this
is
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