Remembering when Jason Statham was a competitive diver with a full head of hair

Things you may not have known about actor Jason Statham:

1. This is what he looks like with a full head of hair.

2. Jason Statham was a diver. The video above is of him competing in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. Unfortunately, his efforts that year yielded poor scores from the judges, especially with that rough-looking last dive. You can see he was visibly upset with that one.

3. No, really. This is what Jason Statham looks like with a full head of hair.

This footage previously popped up in 2014, but oddly, it’s making the rounds again thanks to Reddit. A year before Statham’s diving video went around, he’d talked about his diving career with Katie Couric.

How did this start in the first place? He was inspired to take up diving during a trip to Miami with his parents when he was a kid. “There was a guy who used to do a high dive, at noon every day, from one of the hotels that we stayed in, ” said Statham. “And I went, ‘You know what? When we get home, I’m gonna do that.’” And for a good portion of his life, he had an accomplished diving career (aside from the aforementioned 1990 Commonwealth Games), making the British diving team within a year, although regrettably not being able to compete in the Olympics like he wanted.

The rest is history -- we now know him better as that British actor who’s really good at beating people up in action movies. Unless you’re watching Crank: High Voltage, then he’s also that actor who’s really good at licking electric things.

(h/t Reddit)