With more than 100 credits to his name and a career of over 60 years, Jackie Chan is not nearly ready to take a step back. If it is up to the 71-year-old actor, he continues to act his entire life and also do his own stunts. “That’s who I am,” the actor says in an interview with Haute Living.
No pension
Jackie Chan made his stunt duplicate debut in 1972 Fist of Fury (1972)after which he caused a furore with films like Rush Hour (1998), Around the World in 80 Days (2004) in The Karate Kid (2010). In 2017, Chan received an honorary scar for his impressive career as an actor and stuntman. While the Oscar winner is preparing for the premiere of Karate Kid: Legends (2025)he explains that doing stunts is in his “heart and soul”.
Of course I always do my own stunts. That’s who I am. That does not change until the day I retire, and that will never happen! And to be honest, if you have done it for 64 years in a row, there is no more physical preparation. Everything is in your heart and soul; It’s muscle memory.
No more like before
But according to the actor, the stunt work in Hollywood is no longer what it was. “In the past, the only one [keuze die we hadden] to be there and jump; That was it, “says Chan.” Nowadays, with computers, actors can do everything, but there is always a sense of reality that you miss. “
He continued: “It is a double -edged sword. On the one hand, actors are becoming increasingly able to perform impossible stunts with the help of technology, but on the other hand the concept of danger and limit fades and the audience gets dull. But I don’t encourage anyone to risk his life to do the stunts really.”
Karate Kid: Legends (2025)
When Kungfu talent Li Fong moves to New York with his mother to go to a prestigious new school, he draws comfort from a new friendship with a classmate and her father.
Jackie Chan resumes the role of Mr. Han in Karate Kid: Legends that from Thursday 29 mei runs in the cinema.
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