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Was born Jackie Chan in 1954. Human, known to the world As an actor/director/death-defying stuntman, Jackie Chan is one of the biggest movie stars in world history and the first to bridge the gap between the Hong Kong action film and the big-budget American blockbuster. From "Drunken Master" And "Police Story" before "Rumble in the Bronx" And "Rush Hour" Chan has been making films for more than 40 years. Now over 60 years old, he still puts his life on the line to continue to excite audiences. Here are a few facts you probably didn't know about amazing Jackie Chane.

Gestation (and infancy) were difficult

Chan was born in April 1954, but should have been born in January 1954 - he lived in his mother's womb for a full 12 months before a British doctor had to surgically remove him. After his forced birth, he weighed a ridiculous 5.4 kg. His mother nicknamed him Pao-Pao, or “cannonball.” Only this kind of medical procedure is expensive, and Chan's parents couldn't afford it; they tried to sell their baby to a doctor who removed it. The doctor refused. According to Chan's memoirs, his parents collected money from their friends and it took them ten years to repay the debts.

He made 2 films with Bruce Lee

When Chan was 7 years old, his father took a job as a chef at the American Embassy in Australia, but was unable to take Jackie. So the boy was enrolled and sent to the Chinese Drama Academy, where he studied acting and singing in preparation for a career in Peking Opera. It was there that Chan lived and trained for the next ten years and eventually formed an acrobatic troupe with several classmates called the Seven Little Fortunes. After graduating from school, Chan used the group to land his first roles in Hong Kong films. He and the "Seven Little Lucky Men" were extras and stuntmen in "Enter the Dragon" And "Fists of Fury", two of the most famous and popular films made by Bruce Lee. Chan even fought the screen legend on camera.

He starred in a "soft" porn film

There are two things kids today should probably avoid from the 1970s: the movie "All in the Family". The first is a pedantic 1970 sitcom about political issues, and the other is a 1975 Hong Kong film sex comedy starring Jackie Chan. At that time it was an old thing urban legend that Chan starred in a "porn film" early in his career. It's not technically a pornographic film and the actors don't have actual sex, but there are plenty of sex scenes and Chan appears naked. This is only shown on TV late at night.

So why did he do this? For the same reason that most actors act in porn, erotica or the like: because of the money. “I had to do whatever I could to make a living 31 years ago, but I don’t think it’s a big disaster. Even Marlon Brando gets naked in his films.", said Chan. All in the Family is also notable for being the only film in which Chan played the lead role and did not act as a stunt performer.

He has a complicated relationship with voice acting

Although he had been a star in Asia since the 1970s, Chan was not a major star in the US until the release "Rumble in the Bronx" in 1996. Before that, he helped create American films in Asia: he provided the voice of the Beast for the Chinese dub "The beauty and the Beast". Chan has since voiced on English language in other major animated films(for example, Master Monkey in "Kung Fu Panda"). One project where he didn't lend his voice: cartoon "The Adventures of Jackie Chan". Prior to the live-action scene at the end of the episode, the animated version of Jackie Chan is voiced by James C (who would also voice Master Monkey in the spin-off television series Kung Fu Panda). Oddly enough, the character of Jade Chan, Jackie's fictional niece in this series, was voiced by Stacy Chan, who in real life- Jackie Chan's niece.

He had a lot of injuries

After leading role In the dozens of martial arts and films in which he performed his stunts, Chan suffered a number of injuries. So much so that in 2013 his film "Rise of the Dragon" posted a poster that consisted of an image of Chan's body with arrows pointing to all of his damaged body parts. Among the injuries Chan suffered in his pursuit of art and entertainment:

On "The Drunken Master" he injured the bone behind his eyebrow and nearly went blind.

He dislocated his right shoulder on City Hunter.

Chan fell from a tree while filming Armor of God and suffered a fractured skull, a caved-in bone behind his ear, and a brain hemorrhage. During the operation, pieces of bone were removed from the head.

He broke his sternum on Armor of God II.

While filming The Accidental Spy, he broke his tailbone and was temporarily paralyzed.

He broke his nose four separate times: while filming Young Master, Project A, Miracle, and Mister Cool.

He was supposed to appear in a movie filmed at the World Trade Center

Around the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World shopping mall in 2001, Chan was tentatively planning to film a comedy called Nosebleed. His character was a humble window cleaner at the World Trade Center who foiled an international terrorist plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty. The project was quickly canceled after 9/11.

He is generous (but not to his son)

Chan is a movie star, which means he is rich. He has amassed a fortune of over $350 million. In addition to his salary and percentages of box office receipts from his films, he owns a chain of cinemas and Segway dealers. And when he dies, a lot of it will go to charity.

But his son, Jaycee Chan (pictured above), will inherit absolutely nothing from this. In 2011, Chan publicly noted that he would not leave his fortune to his son, remarking: “If he is capable, he can earn his own money. If not, then he will simply waste my money.". Jackie also admitted that he once beat Jaycee when he was a child and said that he was not a "model father."

He supports communism

Despite earning hundreds of millions of dollars, Chan is still very loyal to political system communism home country China. This means that the government controls the majority, and Chiang agrees with this, even speaking out against the American way of life on more than one occasion. In 2013 he said: "New China. The real success has been achieved in the last twelve years. The president of our country also admits that they have problems with corruption and other issues, but we are making progress... I see that our country is continuously making progress and learning. If we talk about corruption, isn't there corruption in the whole world, in the United States? [It is] the most corrupt country in the world.".

In 2009, he spoke about the dangers of too much freedom in Taiwan, which is under Chinese control. “I don’t know: it’s better to have freedom or not to have any freedom. When there is too much freedom, chaos can result. Everything could end up like in Taiwan. The Chinese people must be controlled... Otherwise, they will do what they want.".

He required hundreds of takes for one scene

Directors may require many takes to get a scene the way they want: for example, Stanley Kubrick required Shelley Duvall to shoot a scene in The Shining 127 times. By that logic, the most demanding director Chan has ever worked with is... himself. The director and lead character in the 1982 film Dragon Lord didn't like the scene in which the characters play ti jian zi (a Chinese sport similar to kicking a bag, but with a weighted badminton shuttlecock). The scene was said to have taken 2,900 takes, but it probably wasn't that many. The book Kung Fu Masters puts it at more than 190, while others estimate it at more than 1000. In any case, Chan devoted himself entirely to this scene.

He can teach fish tricks

Everyone needs a hobby to provide a relaxing break from the rigors of work. And if your job involves jumping off buildings and other acrobatic feats that damage a large number of bones, then the hobby should be consistent and connected with thinking. For Jackie Chan, such a hobby is training fish, in particular, koi and catfish. In 2007, he posted this video on his official website, showing how he trained a fish to twist itself to get its belly scratched.

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The genius manifests itself immediately. Even before he was born, Jackie showed how unusual he was. The mother was pregnant with him for almost 12 months until she went to the doctor, who gave her C-section. Jackie's weight at birth was 5 kilograms 400 grams.

Jackie Chan's real name is Chan Kong San. However, as he says, his father was something of a spy and changed family name. And thus, Jackie's real name is Fong See Lung.

It is no secret that after the birth, the parents wanted to sell little Jackie, the British obstetrician who delivered the baby. Jackie himself says that if he had been sold, he would now most likely live in the UK, speak English and not speak Chinese. And perhaps he would work as a doctor.

Jackie's childhood nickname was Big Nose. Once an angry school teacher broke his nose with a cane, after this incident they began to call him that.

Despite the fact that Jackie is Chinese, he cannot write or read Chinese well. In his house, the bookshelves contain CDs, film magazines, videotapes, but very few books. And all because at school Peking Opera There were almost no classes in grammar and reading, and if there were, the guys didn’t listen to anything and went about their own business. Already in adulthood, Jackie is learning Chinese and, at the same time, English.

Jackie is the only person in the Hong Kong film industry who has won the right to independence from the triads. In 1976, Jackie had eye enlargement surgery. This happened during the filming of Drunken Master. While performing a stunt, he unsuccessfully fell from the table onto the floor and injured his eye. At the hospital they stitched him up using electricity (Jackie said, “No needles”). And when the eye healed, it turned out to be wider than the other. And then the doctor advised me to have cosmetic surgery.

Jackie's workout takes 3 hours daily and includes: running - 3-5 miles (8 kilometers), push-ups, squats, weight lifting (for each body part) and developing basic martial arts movements. However, he does not follow any diet; he eats everything. He loves fish and vegetables, he tries not to eat meat, because he knows that the next day he will have to run 20 minutes longer.

The three basic rules that Jackie adheres to in his films are the following: to play only heroes who became such by chance, under the influence of unforeseen circumstances; there must be someone in the film who needs his protection: a girl, a child or old man; and most importantly, in all film adaptations he must remain himself, that is, small, nimble and funny.

Jackie always works only with his own stunt team, which he formed in 1985 after filming Police Story, when so many of the stuntmen working with him got hurt and none of them wanted to work with him anymore. Now he employs 16 stuntmen, who after 10-15 years of work become martial arts directors. Jackie is personally involved in training the healthy and paying for the treatment of the disabled and completely trusts his guys.

Jackie is an incredible workaholic. Before performing any trick, he is, of course, scared, but as soon as he hears the word: “Motor!”, he forgets about everything. And when the trick works, he is ready to sing with happiness, even if he is injured.

Jackie is not that brave. When performing stunts, he is often very scared (just remember “Police Story”). But the worst thing in Jackie’s life is hospitals, doctors, and especially injections. He is very afraid of them. He is not afraid of breaking an arm or a leg, but as soon as he thinks that after this he needs to go to the hospital, he becomes terrified. And when she gets to the hospital, Jackie doesn’t pay attention to anything. He is only interested in three things: what happened, how serious it is and what they will do with him next.

None Insurance Company does not take on the same risk as insuring Jackie Chan.

When filming films in Hong Kong, city residents send a commission to check Jackie's honesty. In Jackie's films there is no violence, no erotic scenes, swearing appears only where it is comical and there is almost no blood. He is proud of this and says that his films are watched by many children and women, so he cannot and does not want to afford this.

Jackie sleeps 4-5 hours a day.

Jackie appeared in almost 80 films as an actor, 11 as a stuntman, 15 as a director and 11 as a producer.

Jackie never tells his mother, who is over 80, that something happened to him. This was the case in 1985, when Jackie suffered his most serious injury. However, while he was in the hospital, rumors still reached his mother. Jackie tried to assure her that all the talk about the hospital was a publicity stunt, but her mother did not fall for it and asked to see the spam. “I showed her a completely different place, she believed it and still doesn’t know the truth,” Jackie laughs.

Jackie considers “Police Story” to be his best film, and “Meteor Killer” and “Kill with Intrigue” to be his worst.

The only Asian to have the honor of being sculpted for the Museum wax figures Madame Tussauds - Jackie Chan. However, he asked to be molded not in some fighting pose, but in an ordinary, friendly one. Firstly, it will be difficult for wax Jackie to stand, for example, on one leg for several centuries, and, secondly, people will be afraid to approach him.

Jackie is the owner of a modeling agency called Jackie's Angels, an animal activist, a partner in the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, an honorary doctorate from several universities, a plenipotentiary of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, an organizer of charity events, including an annual car race, an honorary a citizen of Seoul, he built several large cultural centers in Hong Kong, participated in a demonstration against video pirates, the popular drink in Hong Kong “Bobo Tea” bears the label “Jackie Chan Product” and much, much more.

Jackie pays great attention to charity. At first, he simply donated gifts and money to boarding schools and orphanages, and then created the Jackie Chan Foundation, adopted 10 orphans, took custody of 50 Chinese children living abroad, supports several university scholarship students, paid for the treatment of several sick children cancer, funds the Jackie Chan Hospital and makes contributions to the Kung Fu Schools Foundation.

The name Jackie is associated not only with the fact that he is the only actor who performs all the stunts without doubles and does almost all the work on film set, but also that during filming he set one record, which is still held in the Guinness Book of Records. On the set of the movie Dragon Lord, Jackie had to kick a small ball at a two-inch target from a distance of 6 meters. This three-second scene required 1,600 takes and 2 days of filming.

In May 1995, Jackie received the MTV Award for Achievement in World Cinema. The unusual thing was that Jackie got the award only thanks to Quentin Tarantino, who refused to host the ceremony unless two conditions were met. The Award for Creative Contribution to Cinematography will be awarded to Jackie Chan, and the award will be presented to him by Quentin himself.

It's no secret to fans that Jackie Chan is not only an actor, but also a singer. He already has 10 albums to his credit. But few people know that his favorite song is “Ocean Deep”. Jackie says he likes slow songs because they give him a chance to practice his English.

IN free time Jackie enjoys hunting, fishing, bowling and gambling. Moreover, it doesn’t matter to him what it is: mahjong, billiards, dominoes or something else. The main thing is excitement and play. One day, while playing dominoes, he bet 120,000 Hong Kong dollars. This was in the seventies, and the amount was 3 months' rent for his apartment. But Jackie's greatest passion is cars.

Jackie is a good housekeeper. And today’s youth teaches this. He has no servants, he does all the housework himself, and washes his own socks and underwear. When leaving the hotel, he certainly takes the remaining soap, wraps it in a bathing cap and takes it with him.

In November 1999, Jackie had a second child - an illegitimate daughter from former “Miss Asia - 90″ Helen Ng. Jackie publicly confessed and repented of what he had done and said that, no matter what, he loved his wife and son more than anyone in the world.

Jackie is a temperamental person. This can be seen at least from the fact that he cannot calmly talk about himself, his films and stunts. While expressing his thoughts, he actively gestures and pronounces sounds such as: “Ki-y-ya” and “Pah-pah-pah.”

Jackie Chan's favorite actor and idol is Buster Keaton. He borrowed many of this American comedian's tricks for his films. One of the most memorable is the jump from the clock tower in the movie “Project A”.

Jackie has been to Russia 2 times. The first was in January-February 1996. Here he filmed several episodes of the film “First Strike”. Filming took place on Red Square and in Krylatskoye. The second time Jackie came to Moscow was on October 16, 2000, for just a day, as part of the promotional tour for the film Shanghai Noon.

On Jackie’s first visit to Russia, he really liked our markets. They are so huge and there are a lot of interesting things on them. But what impressed him the most were the barn locks, which he bought a whole bunch of and now have in his office.

Jackie Chan does not drink not only alcohol, but also coffee. He also doesn't smoke.

Jackie has a small house by Hollywood standards in Beverly Hills, which he bought in 1998 for $3 million. The house has 4 bedrooms, 4 fireplaces, a huge garage and a swimming pool.

Jackie loves and respects her fans and admirers very much and always listens to their opinions.

Jackie's height is 172.5 centimeters.

Jackie Chan's motto: “There is no fear, there are no understudies, there are no equals.”

Jackie wants to be remembered even after he stops acting. But not as a guy who could swing a big leg, but as Buster Keaton or Fred Astaire are remembered, so that he was respected in the same way as them. And if a small reference to the name of Jackie Chan appears in some encyclopedia, that will be enough for him.

Jackie Chan's office is located at: International The Jackie Chan Group, 145, Waterloo Road, Loon Tong, Hong Kong.

Jackie, having achieved almost everything he dreamed of, only wishes for himself good health. And we will join him with all our hearts...

Actor Jackie Chan begins his interview with Forbes by talking about his own frugality. It's hard to believe at first - we are in one of the most expensive hotel rooms in all of Beverly Hills at the Montage Hotel. The action star is wearing a Jackie Chan branded T-shirt with the signature dragon logo.

To dispel doubts, he brings a bar of soap in a plastic soap dish from the bathroom. Chan explains: this soap is from the MGM Grand hotel in Macau, which the actor carries around the world to prove his frugality. An economical approach also means taking care of environment: Jackie recently participated in a public service announcement urging Chinese consumers not to buy items made from tiger skin or rhinoceros skin. But the main metaphor of the soap is different: it, like its owner, symbolically connects America and China.

Chan, who is omnipresent in Hollywood, has actually not had a film in his portfolio for five years now. successful project at the "dream factory". This does not prevent him from remaining one of the highest paid actors in the world ($50 million in income between June 2014 and June 2015, 39th place in the ranking of the 100 highest paid stars in the world according to Forbes) - last year more than him among Only “iron man” Robert Downey Jr. earned colleagues in the shop. Chan, 61, knows how to sell himself to both American and Chinese audiences like no one else.

Doing business with him is a profitable enterprise on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Take last year's film Sword of the Dragon. The American audience as a whole has still not heard anything about this work, despite the star casting - in addition to Chan, Hollywood stars Adrien Brody and John Cusack are involved in the film. The film has already exploded at the Chinese box office, collecting an impressive box office box office of $120 million by local standards, of which Jackie received at least $10 million. The next similar collaboration is on the way: Chan and American comedian Johnny Knoxville will play in the film “On the Trail,” with the former also acting as an investor in the project.

The money that Jackie earns on the set is far from his only source of income. The ramifications of the actor’s personal business empire would be the envy of rap mogul Jay Z himself: there are countless paraphernalia with Chan’s name, supplies of Segways, and even a whole chain of cinemas. According to Forbes, the star's fortune has already reached $350 million. The actor and his representatives refused to comment on these figures.

"He's like Mickey Mouse to Chinese culture. His image is so recognizable that “Jackie Chan” already sounds like a household name,” says Grady Hendrix, founder of the New York Asian Film Festival.

Commercial success in the PRC always relies on good relations with the authorities, and Chan prudently acquired a political “roof”: he is a delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. This is an influential pro-government organization, membership in which gives the green light to all films with the participation of the star.

There is a reason to show loyalty. The total revenue of the Chinese box office over the past five years has grown by 33%, to $5 billion in 2014, and in February of this year even surpassed that of the American market. Hollywood blockbusters could potentially be released in China big jackpot, but local regulators are opposed to overseas expansion: foreign hits, at the behest of officials, may take too long to find their way to the big screen or compete with each other in the same time slot. There is a way out - at the production stage, attract Chinese companies as partners. This is what, for example, the creators of the latest “Transformers” and “ Iron Man- and the films started shooting.

Chan fits this model perfectly.

In China, without any irony, they call him “Big Brother” - other actors can only dream of such a reputation.

“I always look at the map,” says the star, spinning the invisible globe. - Why must one part of the world be called “yours”, and the other “mine”? Who drew these boundaries? The world belongs to us all. America belongs to me. China belongs to you."

This interpretation of the global world order is not surprising if you know Chan’s biography. Jackie was born in British-controlled Hong Kong in 1954. His parents worked in the kitchen of the French Embassy and then moved to Australia (the actor later learned that his father was spying for Taiwan). From there, the future idol of billions soon returned to his homeland and entered the school of theater arts, where he began to learn the basics of martial arts and acrobatics. The teachers at the school looked like kung fu masters from classic action movies. “If you make a mistake, you get hit. And sometimes they beat me for no reason,” the actor recalls. After graduating from school, he spent several years balancing between part-time work on construction sites in Australia and failed attempts to gain a foothold in the Hong Kong film business. The parents used an ultimatum to dissuade their son from acting career, but everything was decided by chance. In the early 1970s, 20-year-old Chan was invited to cameo role in the legendary film Enter the Dragon, one of Bruce Lee's canonical films.

It was Bruce Lee who initially became a role model for Jackie. Moreover, the young actor came from the opposite - he in no way wanted to be like his idol. On the contrary, Chan eagerly set about developing his own fighting style, as different as possible from Lee’s technique (with which, however, he never managed to get rid of comparisons). If Lee's every move on the screen was polished, and his image gravitated towards tragic heroes, then Chan transferred the comic mechanics of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into action films. Films with Jackie are always filled with humor, which often turns them into farce. “I didn’t want anyone to imitate me,” says the actor. “I just didn’t want to imitate anyone myself.”

Hard work and originality very quickly brought Chan to the top star league. He put on the production line the production of Hong Kong action films, in which he himself performed the most dangerous stunts - sometimes at the cost of breaking his arms and legs (and in 1986, while filming Armor of God, Chan fell from a tree and received severe injuries that almost put an end to his future career). With the opening of the Chinese market in the 1990s, the actor switched from the film industry to related businesses: his projects included cafes, gyms and even an attempt to become a singer. In 1998, he founded Jackie Chan Design. Its website today sells more than 400 products - from drinking water to watches “designed exclusively by Mr. Jackie Chan.”

The actor began his attack on America in 1995 with Rumble in the Bronx. Three years later, Rush Hour was released in the United States, which made Chan and his co-star Chris Tucker famous throughout the world. The film still holds the record for opening weekend grosses among comedies - its box office gross was $140 million in the States and $100 million abroad. Today such a proportion is common for blockbusters, but at that time such a significant income in other countries seemed fantastic. "The American box office was considered the global box office," Chan says. And Rush Hour director Brett Ratner still calls Jackie "China's best export ever."

Chan's American career included the commercially successful franchises Shanghai Noon, Kung Fu Panda and two Rush Hour sequels (and currently in talks to film a fourth installment). But unlike, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who, after moving from Austria to the States, completely broke with his historical homeland, Jackie never forgot about his Chinese fans and regularly returned to Hong Kong to either act in the traditional role of a comic martial artist, or try on a more serious dramatic roles.

“I dreamed of becoming an Asian Robert De Niro or Dustin Hoffman,” the actor admits.

The Chinese authorities gladly took advantage of his popularity, recruiting Chan as an ambassador. Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. At the same time, the actor moved all his business enterprises to the capital of the People's Republic of China. The city, to his surprise, quickly turned into the epicenter of a powerful new film market, which was closely sponsored by the state.

Although Chan insists in interviews that he faces the same challenges as other players, few doubt his privileged position, which opens up opportunities for lobbying. To approve the film in all instances, to agree on its distribution - “team work” is required to agree on all the nuances, only then will success come, the actor’s agent Philip Button cautiously argues.

Chan's closeness to the Chinese authorities and his ironic attitude towards the protests in Hong Kong turned the star into persona non grata among local democrats. “If you always do and say things that benefit the authorities, it will certainly be easier for you to get things done,” criticizes the actor Emily Lo, chairman Democratic Party Hong Kong.

Such reproaches infuriate Chan.

“Why can’t I be close to the government? - the actor starts screaming. - We are all Chinese. And we should all love our country."

According to the star, his position helps develop the industry. Thus, the authorities recently heeded his recommendations to reduce import taxes on film equipment. “All of this is aimed at improving the state of the industry,” Chan emphasizes. “They listen to us.”

In total, China today has about 20,000 movie theaters, about half as many as in the United States, despite a fourfold difference in population. “If they have 45,000 screens, China will allow films to earn $500 million per opening weekend,” predicts Bruce Ratner.

Chan is not sitting idle. Five years ago, he and a partner opened the 17-screen Jackie Chan Yaolai International Cinema multiplex in Beijing and now sells 50,000 tickets on peak weekends. The success of the enterprise led to the emergence of 37 more cinemas in the country branded with the star’s name, in each of which you can buy Chan paraphernalia. The actor is also developing his service company to supply American studios with bilingual Chinese specialists of all stripes, from lighting technicians to production assistants.

But his main business remains American-Chinese co-production. “Now I’m not only an actor. I'm an investor,” Chan explains. And although he does not comment on Forbes’ calculations, the actor’s level of income can be guessed from his thoughts about future projects, similar to betting in a casino: “I can lose up to $10 million [on the project]. But if I win, it will already be $90 million.” .

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