With greater than 150 credit to his identify over the previous 60 years, Jackie Chan has no plans to cease performing his personal stunts anytime quickly.
Because the Academy Award honoree reprises his position as Mr. Han in Karate Child: Legends, premiering Might 30 in theaters, he defined that doing stunts are in his “coronary heart and soul” after making his doubling debut in Fist of Fury (1972).
“After all, I at all times do my very own stunts. It’s who I’m,” he instructed Haute Residing. “That’s not altering till the day I retire, which is rarely! And to be sincere, if you’ve accomplished it for 64 years straight, there’s no bodily preparation anymore. Every little thing is in your coronary heart and soul; it’s muscle reminiscence.”
Though the movie trade has advanced over time with CGI and wirework permitting doubles to carry out extra difficult stunts, Chan stays a purist. However whereas he prefers doing stunts the old style approach, he doesn’t wish to encourage anybody to strive something “too harmful.”
“Within the outdated days, the one [choice we had] was to be there and bounce; that’s it,” he defined. “Immediately, with computer systems, actors can do something, however there’s at all times a way of actuality that you just really feel is lacking.”
Jackie Chan, Ben Wang and Ralph Macchio in ‘Karate Child: Legends’ (2025) (Jonathan Wenk/Columbia Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Chan continued, “It’s a double-edged sword. On one hand, actors change into an increasing number of able to doing not possible stunts with the assistance of know-how, and but, however, the idea of hazard and restrict will get blurred and the viewers is numb [to it]. However I’m not encouraging anyone to threat their lives to do the stunts like I did; it really is just too harmful.”
With the following Karate Child movie premiering this month, Chan beforehand wrapped his upcoming motion flick The Shadow’s Edge in January.
