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35 Things You Might Not Have Known about the Action Star #1 - Jackie Chan
- He got plastic surgery in 1975 to look more 'Western'. That's why if you compare Jacky in 1976 to Jacky in 1977, you get a very different look.
- Lo Wei had made Bruce Lee so successful that he made a sequel to Fist of Fury 3 years after his death starring Jacky.
- In that movie he purposefully looked bad with nunchucks so he could stop being compared to Lee.
- He made Police Story because of the failure of The Protector.
- In 1982, he went to court so that Lo Wei didn't release "Fearless Hyena Part II" but lost the case.
- Sings the theme songs of most of his films since 1980
- When he released and sang the song "Kungfu Fighting Man" which was in English, Cantonese was the only language he knew.
- He had 12 roles for the film CZ12, which coincidentally released on 12/12/12 .
- He was mentioned in the song Kung Fu by Ash.
- He put the song Kung Fu in the closing credits of the American version of "Rumble in the Bronx"
- He had a film company (Golden Way Films) from 1985-1992, but only released seventeen films, and Jackie is in 10 of them.
- His real name (Chan Kong-Sang) means Chan born in Hong Kong.
- Chan was threathened by Triads to come back to Lo Wei Motion Picture Company.
- Jackie Chan's first film for Golden Harvest was originally 120m longer.
- His favourite film of his own is Police Story.
- The ending song of Police Story was used for a Hong Kong Police Force ad in 1994.
- He only did Cannonball Run 2 because of the contract with Warner Bros.
- He would have starred in the Samo Hung/Biao Yuen film "Burger Cop" if he wasn't filming Rumble in the Bronx.
- He was forced to marry his girlfriend.
- The female s#!c!d3 rate in Hong Kong went up because his character in Dragons Forever had a girlfriend.
- His Project A films have scenes that remind audiences of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but he had never watched their films.
- He was punched by one of his fans on the set of Rush Hour 2 (April 2001) because the fan assumed he would block the punch.
- He went out bowling with Bruce Lee in July 1973.
- He was supposed to serve as a stuntman to Bruce Lee in Game of Death.
- He says that doing stunts is easier then speaking English.
- He is best friends with Sylvester Stallone.
- He collaborated with Whoopie Goldberg and Sylvester Stallone in 1998's "Burn Hollywood Burn"
- He has a fear of needles.
- He would have starred in a film about a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center if there wasn't a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
- He got his name Jackie in Australia.
- He hates violence.
- He directed the Hong Kong version of the Protector. That's how much he hated the film.
- Speaking of The Protector, he walked off set because of how bad Glickenhaus directed.
- He did the coal stunt in "Drunken Master II" three times.
- He disowned his daughter for being LGTBQ.
