Entertainment Tonight Online Jackie Chan online live at Planet Hollywood from 7:15 to 7:45 pm (PST) July 19! ==================================================================== Mark Steines: Hello everyone. I'm Mark Steines, your host and on behalf of ET Online I'd like to welcome you to our chat. Tonight our special guest is film actor/director JACKIE CHAN and we are here with him live at Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills, California. Mark Steines: Jackie is the Number One action hero in the world! His new film 'Supercop' (Miramax) is opening nationwide on July 27! GuardianDragon: Which of your movies did you like best? Jackie Chan: If you're including being a child actor, you're talking about 40 films. Mark Steines: Which movie was your favorite? Jackie Chan: Right now, The Right Guy is the best. Jackie Chan: Rocky I was the best Sylvester Stallone film. I believe I saw it when I was very young. Jackie Chan: Right now I am 42 years old. I think I am different than some other same age people, I think... Jackie Chan: I still have a few years to go. Jackie Chan: Yeah, but I have to do it. Jackie Chan: I'm shaking and I'm scared... but I'm looking for something different and that's why I do every stunt for every movie. Mark Steines: How do you get in touch with the Jackie Chan fan club? Jackie Chan: The headquarters is in Hong Kong of course.. The Jackie Chan Center, 145 Waterloo Road, Kowloon. Dwandschneider: Did you get hurt during this movie? Jackie Chan: Yes, when I'm doing "Supercop," my arms get hurt, because we have some wire hanging on me... I hurt my shoulder. When I was on the train, I was on the side... reaching.... and hurt myself then. pRoViDeNt_MeD: Jackie, were you ever friends with Bruce lee? Jackie Chan: Yes, when I was a stunt man, we were at the same company. I was always following and watching, but there were always people around him. One day, he gave me a great kick. He asked me if I was fine and I said, I was okay. crowTron: What was the most dangerous stunt you have done? Jackie Chan: I think there were two stunts, I was very scared. "Rumble on the Bronx" I jumped off the building. The other was for "Police Story I". A lot of stunts get me pretty scared. Jackie Chan: The audience is pretty clever. If you use a stunt double, they know. Crazykatz: Who is the beautiful woman in your latest movie? Jackie Chan: Hahaha. From "Supercop"... Michelle Khan is very pretty. BaBaOriley: Did you have a childhood idol? Jackie Chan: Right now, I have to say Kirk Douglas. The second one is "The Sound of Music." I know the story, and the songs very well. charlib: Jackie, how do you train for your stunts? Jackie Chan: I tell you, a lot of people ask me. But nothing to train... not like martial arts. Just doing the stunts. Jackie Chan: Something like you see a bridge, and you think "I can jump on the bridge". In "Rumble in the Bronx", it was mostly chasing scenes. But things occur to you as you keep filming. We have the most easy script people, nothing but dialogue, but they don't know anything about fighting. How can they write Jackie Chan fighting, they can't. So we come up with that... and the comedy fighting... michael_larrabee: Mr. Chan, do you plan to direct or produce any of your future films? Jackie Chan: Yes, I plan to produce and direct films in the future. I'm always looking for new talent. Someday I believe I can be a very good director. charlib: How many more years will you still be doing all of your own stunts??? Jackie Chan: I've been doing the real stunts until 45 years. The audience still likes me... maybe 50, 52, 54 x-believer: What are your other hobbies aside from martial arts and movies? Jackie Chan: Talking about hobbies, I really like editing... Being an action director, you have to know the action... when to hit, when to punch... As a director, it's necessary for us to know editing. Everything I've learned I've learned from video. That is why I always video when I come to American. I have many videos in my collection, beyond counting. I like to fast forward and look at things in slow motion. I don't things like golf -- too slow. For my films, I need to have things that have a lot of movement so I stay flexible. pRoViDeNt_MeD: I saw the accident with the pinball machine in Rumble in the Bronx, to me , that would've crushed my head. How did you react to it? Jackie Chan: You know, when the punch guy is a stunt men, they know the timing. But sometimes they miss. I never get angry at people that... an accident is an accident. Just don't do it again. Jackie Chan: Recently, in filming "Nice Guy," I fell two stories, I was fooling around, I hurt my neck for about one month. I heard the sound "click"... I just bounced back up and said "let's do it again". But everyone gets hurt... even the stuntmen. Puravida-: How old were you when you made your first action movie doing your own stunts? Jackie Chan: I think about 14. I was a stuntman. At that time, we don't know about elbow, knee pads, we just do it. Now, we are lucky, we learn from American football. I saw everyone using pads and we now do the same thing. ShawnAnderson: Your facial expressions remind me of Buster Keaton. Was he a big influence on your comedic work? Jackie Chan: I believe it influenced me a lot. Because I watched Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin a lot. Jackie Chan: But now it is more like situation comedy. I like to use body language a lot, and face reaction. Mark Steines: One last question Jackie...how long does the average Jackie Chan movie take from start to finish? Jackie Chan: Six months. That includes production, locations, editing at night. The action scenes take about 3 months for about 10 minutes of screen time.... We don't have the big budget that most Hollywood movies do. For "Supercop" we had about a 15 million budget. That's the biggest budget in Asia. But a TV drama here could use that up easily. 'Rumble in the Bronx' was for 12 million. Mark Steines: I would like to thank you Jackie for this magical 30 minutes you've given us tonight! The transcript from this chat will be posted tomorrow on the Microsoft Network in the ET folder, Go Word: ET. And don't forget to check out the special Jackie Chan feature in the Spotlight section--all on ET Online! :)