"In this sequence, when I bend back, I get kicked in the solar plexus and fall onto the edge of that table," Jackie explains. "We shot this kicking sequence twenty times so twenty times I got kicked in the solar plexus, but what really hurt was this, the last take. I smashed my lower back on the table's edge." Even though the scene is well done, I find it hard to watch. In the next scene, Jackie is accidentally set on fire ("I didn't think the fire would spread so quickly" he mused), and he shows me where his hair and body were singed. "Even if someone gets hurt in a shot in Hong Kong we can still use that scene; I know you can't do that in America." The next few shots show Jackie falling down a set of stairs: "The stairs are rubber, didn't hurt ... much."
Jackie Chan, despite making shitty Hollywood movies of late, still kicks so much ass.
Jackie Chan, despite making shitty Hollywood movies of late, still kicks so much ass.
