Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Usain the movie star: Showman Bolt plays up to the cameras at Expendables ... - Daily Mail

By Adam Shergold

PUBLISHED: 04:01 EST, 14 August 2012 | UPDATED: 05:17 EST, 14 August 2012

If ever there was a perfect match between an athlete and a movie, this was it.

All-action, thrill-a-minute, explosive - Usain Bolt would have a good claim to a part in The Expendables sequel.

But the Jamaican sprinter - still basking in the glow of three gold medals at London 2012 - was happy just to watch at Monday night's UK Premiere alongside Hollywood heavyweights Arnie Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham.

Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt arrives for the UK Premiere of The Expendables 2 in Leicester Square

Usain Bolt performs his trademark 'Lightning Bolt' celebration at the UK Premiere of movie, The Expendables 2

Usain Bolt's post-Olympics partying shows no signs of slowing down as he attended the premiere of The Expendables 2 in Leicester Square on Monday night

With all his effortless cool, Bolt posed on the red carpet in Leicester Square and it was the film's stars scrambling to get a photo with him.

He was snapped with action man Statham striking the trademark 'Lightning Bolt' pose as his post-Olympics partying showed no sign of stopping.

Bolt in trademark pose with his 'fave actor' Jason Statham on the red carpet

Bolt in trademark pose with his 'fave actor' Jason Statham on the red carpet

The pair share a joke at the Leicester Square opening night

The pair share a joke at the Leicester Square opening night

Bolt looked characteristically cool in a white shirt, jeans, white trainers and a baseball cap with his initials

Bolt looked characteristically cool in a white shirt, jeans, white trainers and a baseball cap with his initials

While the majority of the 10,820 athletes have packed their bags and gone home, Bolt seems in no hurry.

On Sunday night, he marked the end of the Games with a DJ set at the Puma Yard Club on Brick Lane and then partied with the Jamaican team in West End nightclub Movida, emerging into daylight at 6am.

Bolt and fellow sprinter Yohan Blake were pictured getting into a taxi back to the athletes' village with a blonde woman in the front seat.

After his win in the 100m final, he was pictured with three members of the Swedish handball team in his room in the early hours.

One of them, Jamina Roberts, said they talked together, looked at Facebook and posed for photographs.

He is on a high after winning three gold medals - in the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay to add to his three golds in Beijing four years ago.

Bolt posted two pictures with Statham on Twitter, saying: 'Movie premier of Expendables 2 and I met up with the fav actor Jason Statham.'

Statham plays Lee Christmas in the new movie, The Expendables' knife expert.

They shared a joke on the red carpet before heading inside - perhaps Bolt was trying to secure his cameo in the next installment.

After all, the tennis star Novak Djokovic has a small role in this film and was spotted in a suit filming scenes in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Other stars in the all-action film include Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris.

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