The Meg, The Expendables and various Fast and Furious sequels. However, the 56-year-old took some time to achieve success. He didn’t begin to make a name for himself until appearing in Guy Ritchie’s 1998 crime drama, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998.Before this, in his early 20s, Statham had a fledgling athletics career as a diver.
He competed, aged 23, for his country in 1990 at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand. However, he failed to win a medal and did not qualify for any Olympic Games.
Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.British actor, Jason Statham, competing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in diving.
pic.twitter.com/NOWYFvOlJTBesides diving, Statham also tried his hand at martial arts. He now thinks choosing diving was a mistake. “It’s a bit of a sore point that I never got to the Olympics,” Jason Statham said in 2016 at one of his movie premieres. “I started too late.