Simon Helberg earned his black belt in karate when he was 10 years old, showing that his looks aren’t necessarily representative of his fighting abilities. “That’s not saying much, to be tougher than I look,” he joked in 2016 (via the BBC). Actually, he believes his martial arts achievements sound more impressive than they really are. “I’m a very fast runner, and I know where all the police stations are … So, yeah, you’d better not mess with me,” he quipped.
Helberg doesn’t seem to hold his self-defense skills in high regard, but he had high hopes when he signed up for classes as a kid. “I wanted to be Jean-Claude Van Damme,” he said on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” in 2016. The martial art did, however, teach him a thing or two. “I’m flexible. I just wanted to do the splits … So I got to do the splits,” he said. Despite his black belt, Helberg never took his karate skills out of the tatami.
In fact, the only time he got into a fight, he drew inspiration from a different sport. “[A guy in my college] put some snow down my shirt and I just instinctually — caveman instinct — came out and I just punched him in the face,” he told Under the Radar in October. However, Helberg immediately regretted it. “Instead of being cool and saying, ‘That’s what you get!’ I immediately said, ‘Oh my God I’m so sorry!”
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