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Oscar-Winning Russian Director Wants to Reinvent Steven Seagal’s Acting Career
BY ALEKSANDR GORBACHEV 6/4/15 AT 2:43 PM
Nikita Mikhalkov, a prominent Russian producer and director who won an Academy Award for best foreign language film in 1994 for his movie Burnt by the Sun, announced today that he plans to make a movie starring Steven Seagal.
According to Mikhalkov, who talked to Russian state news agency TASS about the project, he already met with the actor to discuss the movie. Apparently, Mikhalkov wants to discover new acting capabilities in Seagal. “He has a bigger creative palette than what he already showed to us,” Mikhalkov said. He added that, when talking to the actor, he saw “a lot in him that has never been used in the movies.”
Mikhalkov’s idea for the collaboration may have something to do with the fact that Seagal is known to be a good friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. As BuzzFeed reported, Putin actually suggested to President Barack Obama in 2013 that Seagal serve as a kind of intermediary between the two countries. Recently, Seagal attended the Victory Day parade in Moscow, where he was seated among Russian military officers and government officials.
Mikhalkov’s idea for the collaboration may have something to do with the fact that Seagal is known to be a good friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. As BuzzFeed reported, Putin actually suggested to President Barack Obama in 2013 that Seagal serve as a kind of intermediary between the two countries. Recently, Seagal attended the Victory Day parade in Moscow, where he was seated among Russian military officers and government officials.
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So this is Seagal's 'JCVD'?
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Friend of Putin? Well, as long as he isn't shown bare-chested on horseback (it would have to be a shire horse).
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Didn't finish reading it, he is putins buddy. He is Dennis Roman to putins Kim Jong
They were going to make seagal some sort of official so Obama would have to deal with him before other Russian officials
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Seagal shills for the Russian government and is a good friend of the Chechen leader. He probably gets a fee for his promotion of the Rusian government.
He performed at a Russian concert in the Crimea.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28738194
He performed at a Russian concert in the Crimea.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28738194
Hollywood actor and musician Steven Seagal has played a concert in Crimea on a stage adorned with the flag of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
Seagal and his blues band took to the stage at a bikers' show in the city of Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based.
Fans waved Russian flags as Seagal sang and played his guitar.
The US and EU have imposed sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea in March.
Russia is also alleged to have provided weapons and support to the rebels in eastern Ukraine.
President Putin teamed up with Seagal last year to promote rigorous physical training for schoolchildren
Seagal said he had travelled to Crimea because music unites people, Russia's RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
The black, blue and red flag of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) hung in the corner of the stage.
Seagal's pro-Russian views saw him dropped from the line-up of an Estonian blues festival earlier this summer.
The bikers' show in Sevastopol was organised by a motorcycle group of Russian nationalists known as the Night Wolves.
RIA Novosti reported Seagal was handed a shirt with Putin's face on it, which he held aloft as he thanked the crowd.
Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters last year the Russian president and Seagal had been friends "for a long time" and regularly meet.
Crimea's largely Russian-speaking population voted in March to become part of Russia in a hastily organised referendum.
The majority of Crimea's 2.3 million population identify themselves as ethnic Russians, a legacy of Russia's 200-year involvement in the region.
Action star Seagal, whose movie credits include Under Siege and Flight of Fury, has also starred in his own US reality TV show, Steven Seagal: Lawman.