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Jean-Claude Van Damme was 'coked out of his mind' while shooting 'Street Fighter', reveals director Steven de Souza

Director Steven de Souza has recently revealed that the filming of the famous '90s action flick was a total shit show, especially because of Jean-Claude Van Damme's antics

Many would remember 'Street Fighter' as the cliched, cringeworthy masterpiece that came out in the 1990s. The live-action movie, which was based on the extremely popular video game, plays out solely on the basis of its fight sequences and one-liners. It is one of those movies which are so bad that they're actually good.

It's been almost more than a decade since the movie first came out but, now, in an interview with The Guardian, the film's director Steven de Souza revealed that the making of the movie was as chaotic as the finished product that we can see on the screen.

“Ed and another producer came to me and said: ‘Capcom is going around – can you come up with a take for a movie? They’ll be here the day after tomorrow,’” recalls De Souza. “I said: ‘Yeah, I’m very familiar with it – my son had just put his first year of college into that machine.’ I said I’d come up with a treatment, but I wanted to direct.”

“Unbeknownst to me, Capcom was thinking in this direction,” he says. “When they came to the meeting, they brought some artwork to help me, and one image had Bison as the most wanted criminal in the world in a James Bond-style underground lair. I could see they were energized during our meeting, and within a week they said: ‘You guys are doing it.’”