Watch action star Jason Statham compete as a member of the British diving team in 1990

Before starring in The Transporter, The Italian Job, The Expendables and many more entertaining action movies, English actor Jason Statham was a competitive diver. 

According to the Telegraph, his best finish at those games was eighth place in the 1-metre springboard. Interesting beginning.

Years later, as we know, Statham would shave his dome, add muscle mass and go on to dismantle swarms of inferior physical specimen like this: