Jackie Chan can actually act. That seems to be a secret that Asian film fans have known about while we here in North America have been treated to nothing but Jackie Chan the action clown/hero. It never ceases to amaze me how badly Hollywood has misused Asian stars. Oh well.
Now it seems that Jackie is turning away from the action genre and more towards actual acting. The two main things he attributes this to are:
1) He understands he is 51 years old now and just can’t keep up the sort of insane action type roles we’ve come accustomed to seeing him in. Broken bones seems to heal slower the older you get.
2) Jackie wants to be remembered as an actor.. not an action star. And to that end he wants to be an actor well into his seventies and still doing significant roles like Robert De Niro or Dustin Hoffman. One great quote I read from his was “I’m and actor who can fight… not a fighter who can act. I admire the man for that.
