Jackie Chan | CBC

you were recently honored by the Academy in Hollywood there's been this huge amount of interest at the tiff light box for this retrospective maybe we have your work sold out screenings and special events what does it mean to you to see your movies Chinese films generally Jackie Jackie celebrated this way in North America I'm really really surprised you know when I get when I just stopped famous in Asia my dreams go to West you know breakthrough American market Europe market because I just and that time are only famous in Asia then I said how can I let people the whole world people know me then I don't know how I just keep doing try to go to America and stay in America and starting my angular's for two years and making American film the big bra and nobody listened to me and the director he won't listen to me I have to follow director what he told me to do I said that's not Jackie Chan can I do this way no no no no you have to follow my and the movie finished and nobody nobody like it he's just why I asked the the depressed why don't like this kind of movie they said look at John Wayne till in years for one punch it knock somebody down and mostly one thing the people are ready down you keep fighting the guy for five minutes no turning kick high kick the guy still standing there shows you're not power I said what that's more difficult than one punch not somebody down then I just very disappointed I just go back to Asia to continue to make my film I just straightened what I am so I don't know why certainly run when the Bronx do the big success in Europe okay hang on two steps back why when was it or why was it that you wanted to take your success and to the west as well what was the point in in in the work you were doing in in Asia where you said I really wanted to cross over into America and the rest of the world I think Hollywood is the place to be everybody want to come to Hollywood when you don't have this kind of string okay you stay Hong Kong then when I'm from Hong Kong speak out of Japan Korea Bangkok I said you've gotta be American people who should like this kind of action so I tell my company and we come to America I stay here first I have to start English for two years I waste by my two years nothing to do a stay in American every day in the morning good morning my name is Jackie Chan mother waist you learned yeah but but just not me Yeah right wrong scrip you know how can I be a ABC even today my English ten times better than before they wrote a script I'm a police cup from New York on ABC I'm a American born Chinese no no way my accent doesn't look like and somehow I just go back to Asia then suddenly the red moon was just success and do you have a sense of what it was that about you and that performance and the film's after that that catches on that resonates so much so with North American with global audiences I have no idea why I just state you have an idea I'm the kind of guy who ya know my idea just okay I have to make the film let everybody can see it if my eye after I make the film I let my children go to see it I will let the whole world children go to see it sometime you when you look at a film they're too violent how can you let people to see that and there's so many way to make a movie I have always believed as a director producer a studio you do have the responsibility for your society for the world so when I'm making a movie then I have a very careful last action okay no violent no bruce nothing lot of jokes no dirty joke because there's so many children watching my movie let learn from me because when I was in Africa when I was in in Morocco middle of nowhere in the desert all the children look at me just put on a drunken master pose I said wow they really really learned from me so I know when I make drunken monster one long big success but why I teach people drinking and fighting so i medially to make legend of a drunken master part you don't drink don't fight I correct myself you want to be accessible and you want to take responsibility what do you say to those who would say well to be more authentic we have to see the blood and guts and all of that stuff oh I think there's so many way to make movie my my kind the way to make movie I have to very careful there's so many you you have a like sex movie you have a violent movie and a ghost movie you have a vampire movie okay everybody do everybody I do my own things yeah when you see a Tarantino film do you think you so much no he's very talented no he's just a radio a video guy in satiny beacon went by the big director but when I look at yes is a violent but he's a dude a great job that there's so many ways but my personal I just don't like blood these kind of things I I do take the gun shot you know after gunshot boom just the closer on me you just hear the sound drop that means that people already died can you turn around just walk away you don't have to spume you have to see it on this explosion the head no III don't like what about the comedic part when did you I mean because because many martial arts films are very serious dealing with heavy themes like honor over and revenge yours have struck a different tone there's that there is this strong comic element when did you know that you were able to infuse that put that into it I really really thank you Bruce Lee because in the old day after Bruce Lee died he supposedly Styles so successful and everybody learned from Bruce Lee and that time even myself I don't want to learn from Bruce Lee but the director forced me to learn from Bruce Lee you have to do this kind of style I'm I was in like a 19 years old I'm not post Lee there's only one bully in the world but ego need a theater you and myself okay I have to good this year to see some the combat well the competitors our come the opponents ya know the some other actor okay you doing the same action film I have to learn how he doing how's he doing house you know I have to go to every theater then I come back to my own theater look at myself or Sam all the action same style same face same looking again somehow I talked to my bigger brother young whopping the director I said we we have to do something otherwise none of this boost ly success now okay let's do totally different than Bruce Lee when you kick high we can low when he do the Siri face Oh Jackie just be yourself just you you just be yourself that's okay were you always a funny guy like you always entertaining people as a kid and being a bit of a comic yes I like to make fun of people I like to make children's my my personality is happy-go-lucky right in the movie what you see is real Jackie Chan almost 50 percent but it was calculated you you you're saying you you saw the Bruce Lee and others and you you'd calculate a different kind of persona to develop for a film in it it worked I mean watching you on screen it's really spectacular times what you do you and your early training was that a Peking Opera School in Hong Kong so tell me about that experience how does an opera school influence your film work when we see what you do i you know day because i born of a poor family my father sent me to the Opera school then he moved to Australia American Embassy for more than 40 years then I just don't know what I'm doing every day there's so many so many teacher every single day from China three months high kick three months punch three months stick five even somebody teach me how to sing oh oh yeah every morning I just don't know what just just follow the routine no future I don't know what to do and in the same time almost a $7 seven years old somebody hire me to the - ciao actor are becoming a child actor and later on becoming a stuntman yeah I just don't know what to do it just everyday on the side I did the Opera school at least give you you could tell that you were always interested in performance and so if you go on to become within those Bruce Lee films where you're performing the role of a stuntman when you were doing that did you always want to be in front of the camera or was that an evolution no I you always wanted to be the lead but you were being a stuntman or do I want to I always want ble you did yes when I becoming a stuntman I said look at the stunt coordinator wow he's so power just angle I was like a 16 I said I was a one of the stunt guy hundred of them okay it's done then everybody's telling you you you go there you how I always out I I'm not the one who beaches for fight fight was a boo sleep I always out and somewhere somehow one day I just I said one day I wanna be a stunt coordinator and that time I'm not fooling around every day on the set I stay on on corner after the still in the stage corner i watch how can be a stunt coordinator they have to appreciate the director duties do that after two years I'm the youngest stunt coordinator in Asia I'm 18 years old becoming a stunt coordinator oh I have a 20 stunt guy with me and then what did you look at someone like Bruce Lee and say I want to be a star at that time I would never think that I asked myself out and might be a one day no no Bruce Lee is just too big he's a legend just too big I just and corny - I'm not handsome I'm nobody nobody just look at me you're very handsome okay what was the turning point that the turning point is I teach this stunt okay and the old a action star don't know how to fight they just handsome tall guy that's all and we have a lot of double for them then because I have to kurwa for all the difficult things for this the actor yes he cannot do it I do it why I can get the money I'd becoming a double and I do the depo and also sometime I teach the stunt the actor how to act before you die you try to get up do you fight again he you might as well be the actor yeah you don't know how to fight he don't know how to act but he's just a handsome then somehow the producer look at me he call me on the side Jackie you can be a star - now look at my face no no no no really then the second day he just sounded contouring me the first star where did this appreciation for laughing at yourself come from you and one of the signatures of your films has become the blooper reel at the end that he's showing all the stunts that went wrong why is it have been important for you to take your fans behind the scenes in that way because anything by myself was some time when I do the editing I'm laughing like hell hahahaha look at the outtake I said how can I put this out in show to the audience I really do them I want all the appreciate what what we're doing so this why let's put in at the end of the film and at the end and somehow everybody liked it then becoming my drama not even in Asia in the whole world but now mostly the audience is some other movie they're watching they know almost finished they're standing up standing up walk away turn around watch the screen as soon as the the lyric the titles that's high - coming up boom gone but except Jackie Chan film they sit down they never go away just I'm so happy well it's very endearing to see you and you do that at the same time you know this thing about doing all your own stunts you're performing in action films I mean this is tough physical work and and and you famously did that a night and I understand why early on it was important for you to set the standard that I'm doing these stunts myself I'm doing all this but in the meantime you you broke your angle you crushed your legs you've broken multiple vertebrae you suffered a brain hemorrhage I mean I read you even dislocate the cheekbone what what kept you going through all those injuries to keep doing the stunts instead of getting to a point where we've known you've done that you could just be the actor ha poor me even these days the technology is so good I have to do the same thing why becoming me at Rhema an audience I don't the audience they don't like Jackie being a Superman or spider-man they want to see Jackie Chan do the real things even today I do have the money to buy a machine but I have to do the same thing like all day to do I think the audience still like these kind of things and also like you still like doing it I don't like to do it you don't like that the only way I know how to do it because you give me a 3d camera I don't know how to do it you give me the special your fat machine I don't know how to do it the way only one I can direct myself it's the traditional film you know you give me the camera three lens I can make the film okay let me come back back to that day Jackie you've had some big hits in Hollywood with all that I know that in recent years you've been more focused on making films in Hong Kong on your website you say part of the reason is that you were dissatisfied with the range of roles available to Asian actors tell me about that do you feel like you suffered discrimination in Hollywood no because in Hollywood I don't have I cannot make the film I want to me every time I come to Hollywood Russia won't rush out to write our three now we're talking about right now for I want to change I don't want the audience to to look at me it's action star I wonder order look at me is actor so this way when Will Smith for hire me do the master of the crater kit I playing the old man I hunch my back walking okay I do it I want to show the audience I'm the true actor I don't want to always make the rush hour these kind of things then after kradic it now I can turn back go back to do rush hour 4 do you feel like you're not taken seriously enough as an actor mmm people treat me like an action star now whenever the whole world well where I go Paris real room America when the parents with the children see me Wow how you move to him kicking check yeah and you like this what nobody see rapidly Nero move the hand right why well because if you are in these films no I just talked about doing your own you're not in the Great Gatsby I want to be as a cue I want to be an actor that's here you can live for forever look at Clint Eastwood Robert De Niro they still can filming how many action star can can do action until 70 or 80 no I'm the one becoming a really really miracle still can do some action why because I'm direct myself I know how far I can go how I can jump and I write my own scripts like a zodiac and what I write six years everything suitable myself okay I want table here because I still can't do the table jump and I want to chair here if I come to Hollywood they just follow the script but at the same time and I appreciate all those points you're making at the same time producing films for the Chinese market must have its challenges your film Shinjuku Incident was banned in the mainland because it was seen as to violence how do you deal with those challenges because I'm like Idol of all the children and somehow I try to change myself I listen the director to make shinjuku story when I make the between I already see wow that's too violent then i ready tell the director i said can you do because i already promised the director i'm not involve anything he's a cheeky only thing you make my movie you cannot fire me you cannot involve anything that's how I promised the director mostly time even making Hollywood film I would tell the director that this kind of action doesn't look good put the camera angle here they would listen him so you agree with the Chinese as already said it was too violent that film yeah it's too violent even myself I just can you put it at this the only time at other director can you put that time because he somebody cut the throw he put the tie shot and the blood from the throw and the guy choking on the floor like this I said even underst on the set I just director that's too violent can you put another vice shot yeah he said okay I put a white shot but I take a closer shot it's just too violent so around that time the Shinjuku Incident came out you you raised controversy jackboots comments you made saying that you were not sure if it was good to have freedom or not and that Chinese people need to be controlled do you stand by those words do you feel like you were misunderstood in those quotes I think the people might misunderstand me look I think the whole world everybody have to control yes what does that mean everybody has to control like okay you can imagine there's no police on the street you can imagine there's no red light and if everybody have to follow the rule like okay my son I have to teach him how to cross the street and my son I have to cause that's a bad that's when he listen to me okay you can free but as soon as you let the children get free they take draft they never go to sleep they never for the iPad for 24 hours that's wrong you have to canto him that's what I mean the whole world not in you only Chinese the whole work even yourself even me have to control laws and regular yeah do you feel so do you feel like China I mean there's been a lot of concern internationally about human rights in China you know that yeah do you think China is unfairly singled out for criticism no no China I think just China mostly people to concentrate in China yeah I think the human riot around the world everywhere how so you do think China is unfairly singled out when they when people look at China and that there's too much focus on China instead of other places in the world in terms rights yes the human right things are around the world everywhere have this kind of problem but today everything is just concern in China or the pollution blah blah everything now you can turn on the news everything they just continue in China I it's not fair what about someone like AI weiwei who was on this show recently he's still under some kind of house arrest we contacted him from Beijing and and he talks about how it's difficult to be an artist and the human rights wait wait who do I wait wait Oh what do you call my way I I don't know you don't know I wait wait listen I don't know what some Chinese name I don't I don't I don't I don't know him okay only know the artist yeah actors huh okay I wait wait there's is there an I'm sure there's a name yeah I'm sure you know I way way that the painter he did the birds nest stadium in Beijing the artists know okay I'm talking about actor yes actress yes I'm the artist okay let me okay let me before I let you go come back to this new film you're releasing in North America this summer Chinese zodiac and this is you when you were saying earlier that about the stunt work and you feel like you have to keep doing it I mean this the trailer is pretty impressive with comedy scenes you can be turning 60 next year yes you said that this will be your last big action rule how difficult was it to do these these because these stunts that the audience didn't ever think I'm 60 every time they see me they still think I'm 20 something and never to tell the audience one day I will get oh one day probably you see the action movie I use a lot of stun stuntmen double forgive me I'm not always I cannot always do my own things I would get hurt especially doing this towards Odia when I fell down from the painting things I feel at that time my back booms broke but I lay on the floor almost like two minutes three minutes just and everybody is just panicked then I get up I said don't don't panic I'm not dying then I'm on the corner the blood comes out I talk to myself I might paralyze him he might hold rest my life I have to be very careful what should I do okay let's announce let the audience know that's my last big action movie then somehow and the media must understand there everybody says Jackie's last action film I said no no no no listen this is my last action big block action movie I do it I still do action movie right now I still making action movie just I tell the audience I my use of some stunt guy that bow me well before I let you go let me ask you about that because Arnold Schwarzenegger was on the show recently and I asked him about his experience of getting older and he said it was really hard it was horrible for people like him who know what it was like to be in peak physical condition and to not be anymore how do you when so much of your life has been caught up in being so physically dexterous and amazing that you are how do you cope with aging yeah sometimes just as I look in the mirror sometimes you better talk to my friend with people why people can oh why people not stay young forever yeah and sometimes it's difficult when you you try to move something then you cannot do it anymore then you just fast written on the set but it is you you are oh you have to accept it then slowly slowly I accept myself and I tell the world I'm 60 I cannot hi my age every day that the audio would count 61 60 especially you know the were things that were things when I talking on the machine all those years from 30 you know yeah h-town then 31 then next year 32 like this couple days I always push 58 59 next next year I have to push 6 minutes your age yes Wow there's a horrible you're still running on the machine man yeah I'm sure still raining still training and I'm I'm pretty good I'm pretty good I probably for the next two years you still see I'm doing action movie I think because I training a lot I have a very good foundation and so this why I still move I believe what right now I still faster than you oh I have no doubt about that I'm not even gonna try and experiment with that what a pleasure it is that thank you to celebrate UN and Chinese cinema thank you so much thank you so much for being here Jack thank you

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Published: Wed Aug 21 2013