Interesting Facts About Legendary Actor Jackie Chan

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Jackie Chan Created His Own Comic Book Character A man of Jackie Chan’s repertoire seems tailor-made for his own comic book series, being the real-life superhero he is as I mentioned previously. He apparently agreed. In 1997, Jackie Chan created a comic book called Spartan X, inspired by his character from the 1986 movie Armour of God character Asian Hawk, which ran under Topps Comics from 1997. That was only his first time being transferred into ink. Jackie Chan Adventures, his animated series on WB (now The CW) in which he voiced a fictionalized version of himself, had its own graphic spin-off series in the 2000s.

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Jackie Chan Owns Many Secret Houses With Secret Rooms When Jackie Chan appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien to promote Around the World in 80 Days in 2004, the host asked him to confirm if his home was imbued with secret passageways that leads to hidden rooms throughout the building, to which he replied with a grin, “Who told you this?” The actor’s response was not for snark. His house is a maze of mystery. 3.Jackie Chan Has Been Injured Dozens Of Times On Set OK, if I am really being honest, with well over 100 acting credits, Jackie Chan’s movie to injury ratio is not actually 1:1. However, in reality, it is still frighteningly close.

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The Silent Movie Era Had A Big Influence On Jackie Chan Much of Jackie Chan’s filmography blends his brutal martial arts mastery with his cartoonish comedic stylings, most notably in the Rush Hour films opposite Chris Tucker or his pairing with Owen Wilson in Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights, and especially in films he directed himself, such as Police Story. You might think that it was a schtick he originated, but truthfully he has humorists of cinema earliest years to thank.

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Jackie Chan has been subject of comparisons to silent film stars Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for his pristine physical comedy chops, which he must wear as a badge of honor since, as he told the New York Times in 1995, “I wanted to be like a Chaplin or Buster Keaton, but all the martial arts directors I worked with wanted me to copy Bruce Lee.” It was also those legends’ own insistence to put themselves in danger for the sake of film that inspired Chan’s long legacy of personally performing his own stunts onscreen.

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Jackie Chan Is A Popular Singer In Asia DJs Tiësto and Dzeko’s remix of the Preme and Post Malone collaboration “Jackie Chan” was a smash for America in 2018. Of course, if you are only paying attention to U.S. radio stats, you would not know that the dance music song is not the closest that the actor has gotten to a chart-topping hit.

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Jackie Chan’s talent as an artist goes beyond martial and into vocal as well, having released 20 albums since the mid-‘80s on which he sings in multiple languages. He is also known for recording songs for many of his own films, beginning with “Kung Fu Fighting Man” for 1980’s The Young Master and, later, the Cantonese-language main theme to his Police Story movies, “Hero Story,” which the Royal Hong Kong Police would use for recruitment advertisements in the 1994.