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Jim Latrache

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
564 total appearances

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What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

As I said, when you have ADHD, you're quite spontaneous.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

You know, in Denmark, we have shitty weather nine months a year.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And it's cold.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I don't like the cold.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So I thought, okay, because I'm this generation who grew up with Jacques-Claude Van Damme.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So I had seen Jacques-Claude Van Damme.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

He had done two movies about the French Foreign Legion.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So I thought, I mean, everything I saw there was in the desert.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And what I could have done, I could have gone to the library and opened my book.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I didn't.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I just put my face in Jacques-Claude Van Damme.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And I realised that perhaps I should have gone to the library because the first four months of my training was in the fucking French pioneers and never free so much in my life.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I learned to not lose my head in stressful situations.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

They will give you like, say, five or seven different tasks, and you will only have time to solve three, perhaps four of them.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So very quick, you learn, okay, which one is the most important.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

So that's one of the things.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

And due to my ADHD and my ability to do a lot of fuck-ups, I became quite good at doing push-ups.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I mean, when I arrived, I could do 10.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

I could not even do one pull-up.