“I did not understand anything he said”: 27 years ago, Jackie Chan lived the shooting of this cult film

Between 1998 and 2007, the Rush Hour trilogy made fans of action films and acrobatics by Jackie Chan. The latter teamed up with Chris Tucker, with a speech flow as fast as a machine gun. Guest of Kelly Clarkson Show With her colleagues from Karate Kid Legends, the martial arts star revealed an astonishing anecdote about the shooting of the first film.

Jackie Chan Lost in Translation

The host interviewed Jackie Chan about her learning English and the actor reacted from TAC to TAC. “Throughout the film, I didn't understand anything what Chris Tucker said”he launches with a touch of malice.

Throughout the film, I didn't understand anything what Chris Tucker said.

“With each plan, his dialogues were different. Each scene, each socket, his replicas were different”continues the actor, who had a lot of trouble understanding his counterpart, specialist in improvisations.

“I asked my dialect teacher: what did he say? He speaks so quickly!”says Jackie Chan. His experience on the set echoes the meeting of his character, Lee, with that of Chris Tucker (Carter) in the film. The American policeman welcomes his Chinese colleague in Los Angeles and thinks that he does not speak English.

“Do you understand the words that come out of my mouth?”shouts Carter then, leaving Lee without reaction, fiction joining reality. In addition, in his autobiography entitled Never to growJackie Chan admitted having had a lot of trouble learning English. He also explained that country music had helped him understand the language of Shakespeare because the songs are slow.

The return of Karate Kid!

A 71 -year -old, the action star will be back in the cinema on August 13 in Karate Kid Legends. He resumed his role as Mr. Han, which he held in the 2010 Karate Kid with Jaden Smith. This time, he teams up with Ralph Macchio, hero of the original saga and Cobra Kai, to train a new talented foal named Li Fong (Ben Wang).

After having experienced a personal tragedy, this young prodigy of Kung-Fu is torn from his family in Beijing and forced to settle in New York with his mother. He tries to draw a line on his past while trying to integrate into his new high school. And even if he doesn't look for a fight, he seems to constantly get into trouble.

When a friend whom he has just got to know requests his help, Li agrees to participate in a karate competition, but he understands that he can not only count on his talent. His Kung-Fu teacher, Mr. Han, then hired the first Kid Karate, Daniel Larusso, in reinforcement. Li discovers a new combat style bringing together their two approaches which he will use for the ultimate confrontation …