Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally hired to play the part of the creature in John McTiernan’s 1987 movie, ‘Predator.’ 

In the video, Makeup FX innovator Steven Johnson talks to Matt Winston about the first design of the Predator suit and how unhappy JCVD was with the suit.

Steve Johnson: I’m like, “Jean-Claude, did no one tell you? It’s a cloaking device. You’re invisible for half of the picture. This is not you.” Which made him even angrier because he thought he could do his martial arts, he could fight Arnold Schwarzenegger. Impossible. Absolutely Impossible.

They wanted to just tell the guy to hop around like a frog and it was Jean-Claude Van Damme who had no idea what he was getting into. He was just off the boat from Brussels. He thought he was going to show his martial arts abilities to the world.”

Check out JCVD in the red suit:

[Via Stan Winston School of Character Arts]