Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan: Let's talk, let's talk. Jackie! Jackie! I love you too. Thank you. Thank you.

Welcome to the wheel. Host: Thank you Jackie. Jackie Chan: Thank you. Host: Is seeing the audience full of, people in the theater, obviously this kind of, adoration and respect is all around the world for you.

But I think Australia will have to say they got a lead on the, in, on the rest of the world, because they claim you as their own. So welcome Jackie Chan: Thank you. Host: To Australia. Let's, let's go to, the business side of things.

You have been making films all around the world, but also in Australia, and can you share with us, this time back, is it different to your previous, times? I think you made films in Melbourne, Brisbane, but you know, in Sydney, do you what do you love most about coming back to Australia, but what is your experience differently to other times? Jackie Chan: It's, it's big different.

When I come to Australia when I was 17, that's, I think, the whole country about, like, 30 million people, that's all. I was in Canberra. And was very few people, you know?

You know, the the country's so big and so little city. We're from Hong Kong, you know, Hong Kong, just, yeah, tiny, small, and 7 million people. Wherever you go, there's people.

In Canberra, 5:00, 5:00 o'clock, I walk on the street, nobody. Really. And I just remember, a lot of memory, really, the, we don't have a opera house yet at that time. And suppose I'm going back to Australia for Canberra for visit my parents, and it's a holiday.

Somehow I cannot stay anymore. I try to training, but at that time, you know, 28, bell jeans. And tie shirt

With, Then jogging on the street, because I don't, I didn't bring any training suit. So yeah, jogging, then the car stop, "Are you okay?" And that time my English not that good.

I just, "" There's they really very nice people. "You want a ride?

You know." "exercise." "Oh, okay." They go away. Then I then a car.

They keep on stop. They thought I'm missing the road, you know. Then somehow, that's how I feel in Canberra.

When I come to Sydney, there's not like today, so many big building then. And that time, I feel like, Australia is a part of my home. So whenever I have a chance, then the first movie I make is, Mr. Nice Guy.

Whoo. Yeah. Is it Mr. Nice Guy? Yes. I think Mr. Nice Guy. Then we worked there for, like, four months.

Then after, I going back. I get a very good experience. Then I just tell my whole crew, "The next movie is, First Drive."

Then I coming back again. I cannot remember Brisbane and Melbourne. I always mixed up.

Always boom. Brisbane, Melbourne, I mixed up. Then a big action sequence, and we do, a lot of big action, snow mountain.

Where's the snow mountain, in Brisbane or Melbourne? Melbourne. Melbourne. Host: Melbourne. Jackie Chan: Yeah, there's snow mountain. Yeah. There's snow mountain.

I tell, I tell you very good, it's a very funny joke. My one of my friend who or I have to go back to Canberra to see my friend, and my friend said, "I want to come with you but I have to stop, " The snow mountain, Brisbane?

Melbourne. Melbourne. Host: Melbourne. Jackie Chan: Melbourne. Crown Casino. Where is the Crown Casino? Host: Melbourne. Jackie Chan: Oh, Melbourne.

Oh, I was in Brisbane. Somehow. Somehow. I said, I said, "I have to go back to see my parents. You you come with me?"

"Okay, I come with you but before you have, you stop in Melbourne." I said, "Okay." Then we go to Melbourne, then I call my friend. I said, "I call my friend, have the dinner."

"Okay." Then as soon as I landing, I said, "My friend take care of everything. He has car and everything." I call my friend, "Hey, I'm in Melbourne.

You come over." "Yeah, it takes me one and a half hour flight." I said, "Where are you?" "Brisbane." Oh. I said, "Okay."

Then forget it. The next day, I tell my friend, my friend said, "let's, take a flight to Canberra." I said, "No, easy. Drive three hour." I said, I said, "I always drive three hour."

"Are you sure?" "Yeah, sure." We get up. I said, "Now o'clock, we're gonna get on a car."

I put all the luggage, and then I call my father. I said, "12:30 in Canberra in some corner waiting for me, okay?" "Okay." I hang the phone.

Then I keep driving. And my friend, again on the car, put the eye mask, then try to sleep. And I driving. He was gambling the whole night.

Ah. And I driving. Three hour passed, I still cannot find the way. Then it pass, my friend, "12:00, get up.

I'm hungry." I said, "No, not there yet." Then I keep driving. Suddenly I see the sign, another 900 mile.

Then I call my father. "Father, don't. I see you tonight." Then I drive, keep driving until 3:00.

My friend get up. I say, "No, sleep." "No, I cannot sleep anymore.

Oh my God, where are you where are you going?" I say, "I don't know." Still driving. That's how.

I always mixed up. And I get three stop for the, by the police. That's how I remember.

But this day, I'm coming back. So no matter I have a chance, I just, oh, Canberra, Australia. Because, we know the crew here, we know a lot of crew member here, we have a lot of good friend here.

It's, very easy to make a film here. And also, and especially this time, you know, when I film in the harbor and the whatever, the things around here. Just easy. I just call the commission, "I wanna film here."

"Okay, whatever you want, except, you know, blow up the harbor." I say, "Okay." You you know, last, two months ago I was blow up the London Bridge. The big news.

Boom. I said, "Well, we just " Host: Six months he applied Jackie Chan: I applied. Then, the government, everything's okay. Then of course now they won't let everybody do it.

And that day, boom. And they everybody thought, it was a terrorist attack. And the, and the news, everybody blame me, "Jackie, how can you do that?

You should tell us." How can I tell everybody? Everybody tell. We already tell 100,000 people surround.

Every, the ladder, I said, "We're gonna blow up the now clock, okay?" Everybody. But then how can I tell the tourists? Host: Jackie, I hope you will leave our bridge alone.

Well, Australia, just a little bit bigger than Hong Kong, I think. Jackie Chan: No, much bigger. Host: Well, I was, I was, when I grew up and I look at your Chinese name, or when I thought I knew your Chinese name is Chan Long. Now, I always thought Chan as your last name and Long as Dragon, yeah?

So then when I was doing a bit of research before I came to interview you and I actually discovered it's not Chan Long, it's Cheng Long. It's, it's become the Dragon. Can you explain to us where's that name come from?

Jackie Chan: That's interesting. And also my Jackie, my Jackie Chan, Jackie's name is from Canberra. At that time I was in Canberra. Then I have nothing to do, and.

Really, because I was go there to Canberra to visit my parents. So every day just follow my father, go to this restaurant and go to that restaurant, go to that restaurant, just sit there like this. I don't have a driver license and nowhere to go.

I just, I just follow my father. And a lot of people ask what's my name. My name, you know, everybody know my name in my house they call Shanghainese Apao.

Apao is little cannon. My father was, Lao Shandong, old Shandong. My nickname's, Shao Little Shandong.

But because I was born, like, 12 half month, I was 12 half pounds. So everybody call me a cannon, so Mandarin is Apao. Apao is a cannon.

Apao. So in American Embassy, everybody call me Apao. Yeah, everybody thought my name's Apao. Apao. So I said, "No, I have to le-," oh.

I finally, I said, "I have to learn English." Because, every day I was, my father was in Canberra American Embassy, and everywhere you go you have to very quiet. Then I have nothing to do, just sit there.

I cannot training, do anything. My father take me to the shopping mall. You know, drive the car, "You stay here, okay?

That's, that's the money. You go to buy food. I pick you up later."

Then I just by myself in the shopping mall just. And see people, very little Chinese at that time, not like today. Then what, then I go, I was hungry.

I just go. I see the glasses inside. I just go in, wait in the line, just, "Hi." And the guy, "What?"

"" Whenever people say, "What?" I just, "" Then I just sit there waiting. My father, I was so hungry.

I said, "No, I gotta speak English." So I tell my father, I say, "I go, I have to go to learn English." Then they, "Okay, we go to the government school for free."

Then I sit there. Well, I was 17. I was very shaking, you know, by myself.

You know, then I see a lot of old people, young people, all from different countries. I say, "Oh, they all just, they can, nobody speak English. They."

Only me. Only me Chinese. Then they say, "Okay, the new student, what's your name?" Then, my I my, that time, my, "My name is Chan Gong Son."

The doctor say, "What?" No, the teacher say, "What?" I say, ""

"Okay. Your name Steven." I say, "Okay." So in, then in American Embassy, American Embassy, all the army say, "Hi, Apao." I say, "" At night, "Steven."

"hi, hello." Then I realize the whole morning, nothing to do. Every day they my father said, "Put me in the, in the shopping mall."

I said, "No, I wanna, I wanna do something." "Okay, my friend, have a construction company. You have to learn some construction."

I said, "Oh, okay." Then I go to the guy is from Taiwan Embassy. He was a driver, big fat guy.

He take me to the construction site to see the, you need a assistant. "That's your assistant, now just sit there." "Okay. What's his name?"

The big fat guy said, the big fat guy called Jack. He said, "Just call him Jack." I said, "Okay." He start right away.

Then I you know the big barrel things, I use a Host: yeah, elastic. Jackie Chan: Elastic. Host: Elastic, Jackie Chan: then I put the things.

Then I start right away some. Then I then first English I learn is a barrel, a shovel. Cement. "This is called cement."

"Okay." "This is called shovel. This is called barrel." "This is called water.

Ten sand." I okay, then every day I just do this kind of things. So my name is, Jack, Steve, Paul. Then somehow I go back to Hong Kong, get.

You know, when I fighting, like, I like rhythm, like, Jack Chen, Jack Chen, is no good. Then slowly I know a little bit English, then okay, I put a Y, then Jackie Chan. Then later on I because then Jackie Chan not famous at that time.

So when I sign the contract with, Golden Harvest, the Golden Harvest, Raymond Chow, "Y no good. Change to I-E." You know, especially Chinese as auspicious, you know, feng shui, you Yeah. The name, you have the.

Then Chinese name. "What's your Chinese name?" I said my Chinese name, Cheng Kang Sang. But my martial, stunt coordinator name, Chen Yuan Long.

Chen, circle, Yuan Dragon. Circle, dragon. Then they find an old lady who's, little bit feng shui. Then sit in the office, he writes so many names.

So many, all dragon, like cloud dragon, small dragon, big dragon. Tang Long, Tang Long, Tang Long. All kind. Then sit down, "Jackie, pick one."

Then I said, "Mm, Xiao Long, huh? Xiao Long." Host: no. Small dragon. Jackie Chan: Just like Li Xiao Long, Li Xiao Long.

Bruce Lee. "No. Bruce Lee already die." Oh. Then I said, I well, Bruce, I don't have the guts to pick Da Long.

Oh. The Da Long. Host: Big dragon. He because

He's too scared to choose the big dragon. Jackie Chan: Either Xiao Xiao Long, okay, I'm not, I cannot bigger than Bruce Lee. Then I say, "Okay, Yun Long, Cao Long, Clouds Long."

You always see Chinese picture with all the clouds, the dragon. This looks nice. He said, "No good for you." I said, "Why?" "You will never success, because the the dragon always in the clouds."

"Sometimes see the head, sometimes see the tail, so never see the whole body." "That means you." And I say, "Okay." Then, "Why don't you pick this Chen Long, becoming a dragon?"

I say, "No, too big. It's just too big." Chen Long, if you are Chinese, you know Chen Long is, wow, just big.

Then I said, "No." Then I said, "No, it's just Chen Long. Use Chen Long." Then the boss say, "Okay, Chen Long, Chen Long."

At that time, the movie come out, doesn't success. When I go to the makeup, Dubbing. Yeah. When there's a, there's a door, there's a crowd of the people, the all of the dubbings, not like today, you know, with the sounds together.

We make the film first, then we dub later. Sometime at night, I just walk in, slowly walk in to the, in the small window peek the how do they learn. I learn, I want to learn dubbing.

You know, the dubbing again. Sometime they just like a conversation, they're just standing there, like, they they just said, "How can the company spend this kind of money and let this guy to make a movie? Small eyes, big nose."

"Don't know how to act." You know, I just standing there. "It's not Chen Long, it's Chen Chong."

"He will never becoming a dragon. He will only becoming a worm." A worm. I tell you what, I just standing here.

My tear just. Even I look at myself, really ugly. I don't know how to acting in that time.

They, "Ha ha." Wrong script, wrong script, wrong character. I really, at that time, I just followed the director, you know, I'm, I was very young in the movie.

There's, girl fall in love with me. Then I just, then I refuse them. I want that, but in the I just, it just, it's not me.

So I go away just crying by myself. Few years later, I go to dubbing, you know, peek again. They say, "Wow, look at this guy.

Even the tones know how to act. So good." No, between you're, you're famous, you're not famous. Yeah. That's how becoming a Chen Long and Jackie Chan.

Whatever that person who chose the name obviously done you good. And you have become the Dragon. And you know, I've counted about seven or eight films you have done.

I think you I Googled, it says you that you have been involved or made over 150 films. But I've been making a film 56 years, George. Wow. And including child actor, stuntman low class stuntman, high class stuntman, stunt coordinator, producer, over 250 movies.

Yeah. And so it fascinates me with the, quite a few of the seven or eight films all themed dragon, so you obviously have incredible fondness for dragon. Sui, Suik Chuan is the drunken Yes. Fighting style. Can you elaborate a little bit how you developed and how do you find doing it, which is very obviously very unique?

Well, it's, Suik Chuan is one of the traditional, Chinese martial art. And somehow, and Yuan Heping and Wu Siyian are two. One of my bigger brother and one is, one of the producer, they think about this idea, then we make the film.

And of course, it would create a lot of movement. And of course, Drunken Master one very success. And that time, I just asked myself, after Africa, I jogging, I jogging in the morning, then I see so many young children just do these kind of things.

Then I said, "Wow, I really. The movie, what I made, I really influenced a lot of children." So this is why for the future when I'm making a movie, I'm very careful the way I'm talk, the way I'm doing.

Not like, the old day, anything makes the audience laughing, I just do it. You know, ah, like this. And then after, when I travel around the world, I see so many children learn from me, then I say, "Ah, as a producer or director or actor, we have the responsibility for the society of, for the children."

So I look back the Drunken Master one, why I'm telling the people drinking and fighting is wrong? So this is why I immediately to make, to make the Drunken Master two to correct myself. Don't drink. Don't fight.

I don't, I don't know all, then you know a lot. You do you know? You if you don't know, you look at the movie.

Ah, good. It's a good movie. But I make myself comfortable. I correct myself. Anything I do something wrong, I correct myself.

And so this is why you drink too much. So in the movie, there's so many men. How how much you drink?

Of course, when you drink, you fall down, it doesn't know. But you drink too much, you're gonna faint. So in the movie, and they tell af because I'm drinking, then I get naked, hanging here.

And after the father said, say something, they throw their fan. The boat, this, the water can carry the boat, and also the water can flip the boat. Yeah, there's some, Confu Konfuzi inside.

Some. Yeah. I have to correct myself all those years, even, like, there's so many. The later on, after Drunken Master, so many movie, you can see there's so many message inside.

If you don't know, you don't know. You know, I'm happy. If you really don't know, I make myself happy.

Like, there's small things like Dragon Blade. Do you see Dragon Blade? Yeah. Yeah. It's about peace.

Because a few years ago, I. Why there's so many war, in the Middle East? I have to make a movie called Peace, so I make Dragon Blade.

And because there's so many treasure, stole away from China. Then I say, "I have to make 12 Zodiac." And even the movie, there's so small things like, I cannot, certainly cannot remember.

First Strike. When the. I was wanted in the newspaper. And when the lady walk around, see the paper, scared, turn around, then I look at the.

Suppose I just walk away. But in the movie, I see the lady walk away, then I see the newspaper. I pick up the newspaper, I put in the rubbish trunk, I walk away.

It's same thing. You know, same thing. You can. From a movie, I hope from these small things, if in Australia, in the whole world, everybody walk around, see the rubbish, just pick up, then the whole world will be very clean. That's, that's my little insight.

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