Steven Seagal speaks fluent Japanese. With his kids, too.
On Japanese sometimes they get unintentionally insulting and provide him with an interpreter, which he absolutely does not need. Really insulting.
He went over there and in order to get into his first dojo (in Hiroshima) he had to live in a DOG HOUSE for a week.
“We don’t have room for a new member, but we do have room for a DOG...?”
“Uh....Okay...”
And he did it.
I’m serious.
Rumor has it in intelligence that he was a CIA hit man for awhile. Have no idea if that is true or not. Stranger things (cough ... Chuck Barris) have happened.