The site MMAYOU.com has recently interviewed Bas Rutten, about his role in the game Grand Theft auto 4. If you have played the game yourself, you may have noticed Bas Rutten on the TV in your hideout. This is not his only role in the game though, as he explains here :

MMAyou.com: Yo Bassito! You ready for the world’s greatest interview?

Rutten: You’re so f**ing on the f**ing minute man, I love you!

MMAyou.com: Haha, thanks man, I love you too. You ready to get started?

Rutten: Ready, ready!

MMAyou.com: Alright cool. Well, how are you doing?

Rutten: I’m doing f**ing phenomenal.

MMAyou.com: Nice! What’s new with you?

Rutten: As you probably saw, Grand Theft Auto 4 finally came out. And I’m really stoked because I had to shut my mouth for one and a half years or longer. I did that a long time ago.

MMAyou.com: Oh wow, okay. I thought it was just recently.

Rutten: No, and I did all the, but people don’t know yet, is that I did all the fighting also in it. So every fighting that you see that‘s done by me. I did it together with Amir Perets. I brought Amir Perets.

MMAyou.com: (laughing) That poor guy.

Rutten: Five days, eight hours a day we were in those crazy suits.

MMAyou.com: (laughing) Nice, (Bas laughs) he was probably beat to shit by the time you finished with him.

Rutten: Oh man, it was beautiful. It was so much fun.

MMAyou.com: Were the people at GTA freaking out?

Rutten: Oh, let me tell you (Bas laughs). I ask them “how violent do you want it?” They say, “give it all you got”. I say, “cool!”. So they go up you know and I started, and they load it into the computers and two hours they came back down and they say “okay, you can stop now”. (both of us start laughing)

MMAyou.com: Is there any chance of us seeing you, I hope you say yes to this, is there any chance of us seeing you in your own spin-off game?

Rutten: No, not yet. God knows what people… I mean the reaction of the TV show in the game is phenomenal. I have sooooooo many people calling me and apparently it is very well received.

It was funny because we had to shoot it a couple of times they were laughing so hard that I had to do re-shoots all day because you heard laughing in the background.

MMAyou.com: Was that you just improving or was some of that scripted?

Rutten: Yeah, somebody scripted that. They used just a lot from my street fighting DVDs I think.

MMAyou.com: Yeah, I noticed that.

Rutten: Yeah, the crazy stuff they put in, it’s all scripted. There’s a little improv but it’s about twenty percent maybe.

I really like Bas and I know he's trying to start a career as an actor. I hope this is another little step towards that new career.