35 Things You Might Not Have Known about the Action Star #1 - Jackie Chan

1. 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.
   
2.  Lo Wei had made Bruce Lee so successful that he made a sequel to Fist of Fury 3 years after his death starring Jacky.
   
3.  In that movie he purposefully looked bad with nunchucks so he could stop being compared to Lee.
4.  He made Police Story because of the failure of The Protector.
5. In 1982, he went to court so that Lo Wei didn't release "Fearless Hyena Part II" but lost the case.
6. Sings the theme songs of most of his films since 1980
7. When he released and sang the song "Kungfu Fighting Man" which was in English, Cantonese was the only language he knew.
8. He had 12 roles for the film CZ12, which coincidentally released on 12/12/12 .
9. He was mentioned in the song Kung Fu by Ash.
10. He put the song Kung Fu in the closing credits of the American version of "Rumble in the Bronx"
11. He had a film company (Golden Way Films) from 1985-1992, but only released seventeen films, and Jackie is in 10 of them.
12. His real name (Chan Kong-Sang) means Chan born in Hong Kong.
13. Chan was threathened by Triads to come back to Lo Wei Motion Picture Company.
14. Jackie Chan's first film for Golden Harvest was originally 120m longer.
15. His favourite film of his own is Police Story.
16. The ending song of Police Story was used for a Hong Kong Police Force ad in 1994.
17. He only did Cannonball Run 2 because of the contract with Warner Bros.
18. He would have starred in the Samo Hung/Biao Yuen film "Burger Cop" if he wasn't filming Rumble in the Bronx.
19. He was forced to marry his girlfriend.
20. The female s#!c!d3 rate in Hong Kong went up because his character in Dragons Forever had a girlfriend.
21. His Project A films have scenes that remind audiences of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, but he had never watched their films.
22. 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.
23. He went out bowling with Bruce Lee in July 1973.
24. He was supposed to serve as a stuntman to Bruce Lee in Game of Death.
25. He says that doing stunts is easier then speaking English.
26. He is best friends with Sylvester Stallone.
27. He collaborated with Whoopie Goldberg and Sylvester Stallone in 1998's "Burn Hollywood Burn"
28. He has a fear of needles.
29. 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.
30. He got his name Jackie in Australia.
31. He hates violence.
32. He directed the Hong Kong version of the Protector. That's how much he hated the film.
33. Speaking of The Protector, he walked off set because of how bad Glickenhaus directed.
34. He did the coal stunt in "Drunken Master II" three times.
35. He disowned his daughter for being LGTBQ.