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The brand new issue of Total Film magazine is out tomorrow (in print and interactive iPad edition ), with Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables leading the badass pack.

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In the pec-popping, ass-whupping, bullet-blasting action sequel, the Muscles from Brussels joins a host of ‘80s icon to play the villain of the piece, a terrorist with nefarious plans for a batch of stray plutonium.

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On working with all those action screen legends, JCVD told us, “I have lots of respect for them, so I felt great. Stallone was very happy about my acting. He was kinda upset because he didn’t know which take to take. So he’s a great teacher in a sense of knowing the character. Very intelligent.

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