Steve Seagal was quite a big deal back in the day, but now he’s just a shitty, washed up actor with a goatee and a ponytail.

The last time I can recall seeing him in anything was The Onion Movie, and even then he was basically taking the piss out of himself in a fake trailer for a movie called Cockpuncher (HERE).

Consider that the good ‘ol days, because now he has transformed into a puppet for Vladimir Putin.

He appeared on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday, hating on NFL players taking a knee to protest against injustice and inequality in America, and it sounds like someone is singing for his supper.

Seagal holds both US and Russian citizenship, by the way.

You have to be a real piece of work to come off looking bad in a segment featuring Piers Morgan, but Steven hits that out of the park.

Piers getting in a good bout of brown-nosing right at the end, there.

Let’s just hear from the Daily Beast before we go:

Throughout a long career of shameful behavior, including but not limited to becoming the face of Russian weaponry manufacturer ORSIS and allegedly lying about training CIA operatives, a few incidents really stand out. Seagal, who believes that he is the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama, has dedicated his current lifetime to projects like Steven Seagal: Lawman, an A&E show on which he served as a reserve deputy sheriff, a title that the show’s own Wikipedia page describes as “largely ceremonial.”

To make a long story short, Steven Seagal: Lawman had to move on from A&E and Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, after two short seasons when, according to The Atlantic, “a woman sued the celebrity for allegedly trying to keep her as a ‘sex toy’ during filming, among other things.”

…As evidenced by the very special way that Steven Seagal pronounced Vladimir Putin during Wednesday’s Piers Morgan interview, the two are close friends—in fact, Putin even shocked former President Obama in 2013 by proposing that the actor be appointed as an honorary counsel of Russia in California and Arizona.

Oh Steven, you’ve turned into a real-life Bond villain haven’t you? Given that you’ll never land a role in a 007 movie, perhaps that’s the next best thing.

[source:dailybeast]