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7. Jean-Claude Van Damme Plays Multiple Versions Of Himself

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Cinema is littered with instances of actors playing dual roles in the same movie, offering up two distinct and entirely different performances in an effort two establish them as two sides of the same coin, but Jean-Claude Van Damme must have had a clause in his contracts that paid him by the character based on how often he's appeared as multiple versions of himself while still doing very little to differentiate them from each other.

JCVD played identical siblings in both 1991's Double Impact and 1996's Maximum Risk, and also pulled double duty in The Order and The Replicant, which arrived within months of each other back in 2001, while finding the time to appear as either alternate reality versions or clones of his characters in Timecop and the increasingly-confusing timeline of the Universal Soldier series in the process.

Most bargain-basement action heroes play twins at least once during their careers as some kind of low-budget rite of passage, but they'll always find themselves compared to the man who cornered the incredibly niche market of only sharing top billing with himself.

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