![]() ![]() The criminal is caught soon enough, but Walker is forced to return back in time again after discovering that the robotic bodyguard is wreaking havoc with his own timeline. They are eventually tracked down by Max Walker, a Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) agent tasked with apprehending illegal time travelers. ![]() ![]() “ Time Cop: A Man Out Of Time” told the story of a criminal and his robot bodyguard, who travel back to 1930s South Africa to rob a diamond mine. In 1992, Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden teamed up to write a three-part story, which was drawn by artist Ron Randall for the launch of a new Dark Horse Comics anthology. Timecop’s origins can be traced back to the world of comics. Earning Van Damme his first set of favourable reviews from the critics, Timecop also went on to rake in over $100 million worldwide and remains the Belgian’s top grossing movie. It also proved something else: Van Damme could act. Here was a film that defied genre convention to deliver an enjoyably slick sci-fi yarn alongside the usual high kicking action. Previous hits like Kickboxer had essentially served as showcases for the Muscles from Brussels’ fighting abilities alone but this was different. That was the day Timecop hit cinemas and the moment JCVD’s career changed forever. If Jean-Claude Van Damme were to ever get his hands on a time machine, he might well be tempted to travel back to September 16, 1994. “I mean, you’re an adult and they dump water on you and tell you to climb up the roof in the freezing cold rain wearing a bathrobe.Celebrating Van Damme’s Sci-Fi Classic Timecop (1994) “Let’s face it, it’s a silly job sometimes,” Sara says of being an actress. While Sara may be on the brink of receiving the attention she has been working so hard for, she maintains a very un-Hollywood lifestyle, living with her fiance, actor-producer Clayton Rohner, and two Wheaton terriers in a comfortable fixer-upper in Hancock Park, which the couple is remodeling themselves. Sara describes the film as “sort of like ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ plus ‘Misery.’ I’m chained to the bed for over half the film.”Īnd in “Bullet to Beijing,” which will debut on Showtime, Sara plays a Russian spy who finds herself involved with the Russian Mafia after the Cold War is over. It’s so easy to feel self-conscious and hold back, but she sold the danger, the plight she was in.”Ĭast again as a woman in danger, Sara will play a young mother held hostage by Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson in “The Maddening,” which is set for release next February. “There she was in the freezing weather with tons of water being poured on her, and she kept acting the whole time. “Oddly enough, it’s a difficult part to play,” he says. Sara’s performance went beyond Hyams’ expectations. “I knew she was a terrific actress, except that’s all I knew,” Hyams says by phone from Pittsburgh, where he’s completing pre-production on another Van Damme movie, “Sudden Death.” “Timecop” director Peter Hyams cast Sara as Van Damme’s damsel in distress after meeting with her a few times. “But I did climb up that roof and hang off that antenna-that was me!” though I don’t think I’m going to become a Lady Van Damme,” Sara says glancing down at her delicate frame. 1 at the box office for the two weeks of its release, she got a chance to test her courage, which inspired her to get her pilot’s license. Gracious despite the fact she’s not done packing, Sara sees both “Timecop” and the recently finished “The Maddening” as welcome departures from her usual roles.įor “Timecop,” which has been No. Petersburg, Russia, to begin filming “Bullet to Beijing” with Michael Caine, Sara finally seems poised for the spotlight. Interviewed just after completing a fashion shoot for British Esquire and mere hours before she hopping on a plane to St. “Thank God for ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ for if it weren’t for that no one would remember me!,” Sara says with a laugh, before pausing and adding, “But I think I haven’t been ready (for stardom), I think I’m much more equipped to handle it now than I was a few years ago.” People just don’t see me that way-I usually play the ingenue, the leading lady, and so often the second-banana role is really great.”ĭespite the fact that Sara has been steadily busy over the years, she confesses that the elusiveness of stardom has been frustrating. Sidney Lumet had enough confidence in her to cast her as a young Hasidic woman in “Stranger Among Us,” a role for which Sara says she “worked really hard to get.” “It was a character role,” she continues, “and I don’t ever get to audition for character roles. ![]()
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