Jackie Chan and his memory of Bruce Lee: ‘I wanted it to hit me again’

As part of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the legendary martial artistJackie Chan discussed his upcoming projects and also looked back on his 60-year film career in front of a crowd of fans who cheered, cheered and asked him to sing.

Jackie Chan responded to his fans by singing a snippet of Can not help Falling in love With Youexplaining that he learned to sing so he could do something for his fans that didn’t involve wrestling moves.

The actor also recalled his humble beginnings, making money 80 cents a day as a stuntman. But it was during this time that she met another legendary martial artist, Bruce Lee, a superstar at the time. Chan relived an anecdote where Lee punched him while recording a scene.

The least painful blow

For that blow, as Chan recalled, Bruce Lee felt guilty and shocked, which the actor at that time only an unknown stunt double, took advantage of to win his sympathy. “As a specialist, you can get hit every day,” Chan said. “It doesn’t matter. I pretend to be hurt and he comes to help me.”

And he went on to recount, “All day and all night, every time I turn around, I see Lee trying to see if I’m okay. He wanted him to hit me again.” After that episode, Chan got a job as appeared in one of his films.

When Lee died in 1973, Chan was just 19 years old. it’s remembered how he was being prepared to be his successor. “I thought about how to differentiate myself because I’m not Bruce Lee. So if Bruce high kicked; low blow If Bruce fights like that, I do it the other way around. This is Jackie Chan,” he explained.

“In Hollywood they told me to tone down the fighting style, to do it like Clint Eastwood,” he said. Her early forays into Hollywood were unsuccessful, but in her time Chan has become a global star and been able to develop her own style.

Jackie Chan style

What is called “Jackie Chan style” is marked by his own combination of action and comedy. “Little by little I use comedy with the action and all the props around me, and when I can’t use them anymore, I do dangerous stunts. high jumps Believe it or not, this year is my 60th year in the film industry,” she said.

Chan moved from cinema to Hong Kong, then to Japan and finally to Hollywood and at this Festival he presented Rush hour 4the fourth chapter of the saga that began in 1998 with Chris Tucker.

When it comes to the secret to his popularity and success, Chan insists it’s how he controls his films at every level. “There are so many good action stars. My action is better than other people’s, not because I’m really good at it, but because I write a script that suits me.”

In his six-decade career he made about 150 films, but add up to 300, if his work is included as a double and now, prepare a new project, Never let the rain stop, which will be filmed in Saudi Arabia, among others. “I used to party, but now my ambition is to become good old Jackie Chan,” he said. And he promised to make fewer action films and more romance films.

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