The actor known as the “muscles from Brussels” donned the black garb of a fervently Orthodox Jew for a scene from a film now being shot in Jerusalem. In “The Order,” Jean Claude Van Damme plays an art thief searching for his archaeologist father, who is missing in Israel.
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