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Golden boy! Hollywood hard man Jason Statham strips down to hotpants and dances around sprayed with metallic paint in resurfaced Erasure music video from 1994

He’s now one of Hollywood’s biggest action stars, with movies like The Fate Of The Furious snd Spy under his belt.

But Jason Statham‘s past as a backing dancer has crept out of the woodwork for the second time in recent years, appearing in a recently unearthed music video for 90s synthpop group Erasure.

The hunky actor, now 50, shows up in the background in nothing but a pair of pants, spray-painted with metallic paint, with a bright green ‘E’ on his chest, in homage to the band.

Golden boy! Hollywood hard man Jason Statham strips down to just his pants and is sprayed with metallic paint to dance in resurfaced Erasure music video from 1994

Golden boy! Hollywood hard man Jason Statham strips down to just his pants and is sprayed with metallic paint to dance in resurfaced Erasure music video from 1994

Silver surfer: Jason Statham's past as a backing dancer has crept out of the woodwork for the second time in recent years, appearing in a recently unearthed music video for 90s synthpop group Erasure

Silver surfer: Jason Statham’s past as a backing dancer has crept out of the woodwork for the second time in recent years, appearing in a recently unearthed music video for 90s synthpop group Erasure

The British star of The Expendables shows off his beefy physique in the video as he prances around behind band members Andy Bell and Vince Clarke.

Showing off his toned body in tight underwear, Jason is seen pouting, throwing his arms around, saluting the camera and thrusting his body against a backdrop of a cloudy sky.

The video is for the song Run To The Sun, which was released in 1994, when Jason was just 26.

It came out four years after Jason competed in the Commonwealth Games as a diver.

The hunky actor, now 50, shows up in the background in nothing but a pair of pants, spray-painted with metallic gold paint, with a bright green 'E' on his chest, in homage to the band

The hunky actor, now 50, shows up in the background in nothing but a pair of pants, spray-painted with metallic gold paint, with a bright green ‘E’ on his chest, in homage to the band

Hollywood hunk: The British star of movies like Fast & Furious, Spy and The Expendables is just as ripped these days as he was in the 1990s

Hollywood hunk: The British star of movies like Fast & Furious, Spy and The Expendables is just as ripped these days as he was in the 1990s

Stealing focus: Jason shows off his beefy physique in the video as he prances around behind band members Andy Bell and Vince Clarke

Stealing focus: Jason shows off his beefy physique in the video as he prances around behind band members Andy Bell and Vince Clarke

Having only really been a modest diver (finishing eighth in the 1m springboard, 11th in the 3m springboard and 10th in the 10m platform in the 1990 Games), Jason quit the profession to venture into the world of show-business.

And this isn’t Jason’s first music video to come out of his closet: he can be seen shaking the stuff that God gave him in The Shamen’s video for their 1993 hit Comin’ On, one year before the Erasure appearance.

The star came across as a well-oiled dancing machine as he pumped his fists and thrust his hips in a pair of leopard-print pants in the video.

Clearly, Jason was a popular choice for promos in the Nineties psychedelic-influenced electronic dance music scene.

Work it! Showing off his toned body in tight underwear, Jason is seen pouting, throwing his arms around and thrusting his body against a back drop of a cloudy skyWork it! Showing off his toned body in tight underwear, Jason is seen pouting, throwing his arms around and thrusting his body against a back drop of a cloudy sky

Work it! Showing off his toned body in tight underwear, Jason is seen pouting, throwing his arms around and thrusting his body against a back drop of a cloudy sky

Past life: Having only really been a modest diver (finishing eighth in the 1m springboard, 11th in the 3m springboard and 10th in the 10m platform in the 1990 Games), Jason quit the profession to venture into the world of show-business

He's come a long way: The actor - currently dating British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley -can be seen in blockbuster action films such as Mean Machine (2001) and Crank: High Voltage (2006)He's come a long way: The actor - currently dating British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley -can be seen in blockbuster action films such as Mean Machine (2001) and Crank: High Voltage (2006)

He’s come a long way: The actor – currently dating British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley -can be seen in blockbuster action films such as Mean Machine (2001) and Crank: High Voltage (2006)

Now:  He and Rosie, 30, welcomed their son, Jack, on June 24, 2017

Now:  He and Rosie, 30, welcomed their son, Jack, on June 24, 2017

In other appearances as a young performer, he was briefly in The Beautiful South’s Dream A Little Dream video in 1995 as well as few 1997 adverts for Lee Jeans and Soccer Nation.

Luckily Guy Richie saw something in the snake-hipped hunk and cast him in his 1998 British gangster film Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.

Two years later he teamed up again with Richie for Snatch but it wasn’t until 2002’s The Transporter that Jason became a household action star name.

As Frank Martin, Statham went onto appear in two sequels and then the super action star franchise The Expendables as Lee Christmas.

The actor – currently dating British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley – turned bad guy in the latest instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise as Deckard Shaw.

He and Rosie, 30, welcomed their son, Jack, on June 24, 2017.

Man of many talents: He also appeared in a Beautiful South video shortly after 

Man of many talents: He also appeared in a Beautiful South video shortly after

 

 

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