11 Curiosities About The Amazing Actor Jackie Chan That You Probably Don't Know
Chan Kong-sang, born 7 April 1954, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. (read more)
1. Jackie Chan is a staunch supporter of China’s communist party. He thinks Taiwanese democracy is the biggest joke in the world, and he believes Chinese citizens need to be controlled through censorship, otherwise they’ll do whatever they want.
2. Jackie speaks 7 languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Korean, Japanese and Thai and also American sign-language.
3. Jackie Chan is a classically trained vocalist and has released more than 20 albums in over five languages, in addition to providing the theme tunes for several of his earlier films and singing in several Chinese dubs of Disney classics.
4. His first feature movie came out in 1962 and it was a Cantonese movie called ‘Big and Little Wong Tin Bar when he was aged eight.
5. Jackie Chan’s son will get none of his $130 Million fortune. According to him, If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money.
6. Award-Winning Perfectionist - A lot of people pride themselves on working hard for the perfect take, but not many people get a Guinness record for their perseverance. Jackie Chan won this award for most takes for a scene when filming the 1982 film Dragon Lord. He apparently took 2,900 attempts just to get the complex 10 minute opening right.
7. Jackie Chan was trained as an opera singer as a child and has released 20 albums with songs in 5 different languages in Asia.. Besides his success as an actor, Jackie Chan is also a singer in Asia, singing in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Taiwanese. Jackie studied opera at the Peking Opera School when he was a little boy and trained in singing alongside his Kung Fu. Jackie often sings the theme songs for his movies which play over the closing credits.
8. He loves football and supports Hong Kong National football team, England National football team and Manchester City.
9. Jackie Chan while he was working as a nightclub bouncer spent two days after a fight trying to push his bone back into his fist. He later found that it wasn’t his bone, it was in fact the other guy’s tooth.
10. He got the name 'Jackie' while he was working as a construction worker in Canberra, Australia.
11. Nosebleed was a 2001 movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre, who stops a terrorist attack, had to be cancelled when the attacks happened in the real world.
11 Curiosities About The Amazing Actor Jackie Chan
1. Jackie Chan is a staunch supporter of China’s communist party. He thinks Taiwanese democracy is the biggest joke in the world, and he believes Chinese citizens need to be controlled through censorship, otherwise they’ll do whatever they want.
2. Jackie speaks 7 languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Korean, Japanese and Thai and also American sign-language.
3. Jackie Chan is a classically trained vocalist and has released more than 20 albums in over five languages, in addition to providing the theme tunes for several of his earlier films and singing in several Chinese dubs of Disney classics.
4. His first feature movie came out in 1962 and it was a Cantonese movie called ‘Big and Little Wong Tin Bar when he was aged eight.
5. Jackie Chan’s son will get none of his $130 Million fortune. According to him, If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money.
6. Award-Winning Perfectionist - A lot of people pride themselves on working hard for the perfect take, but not many people get a Guinness record for their perseverance. Jackie Chan won this award for most takes for a scene when filming the 1982 film Dragon Lord. He apparently took 2,900 attempts just to get the complex 10 minute opening right.
7. Jackie Chan was trained as an opera singer as a child and has released 20 albums with songs in 5 different languages in Asia.. Besides his success as an actor, Jackie Chan is also a singer in Asia, singing in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Taiwanese. Jackie studied opera at the Peking Opera School when he was a little boy and trained in singing alongside his Kung Fu. Jackie often sings the theme songs for his movies which play over the closing credits.
8. He loves football and supports Hong Kong National football team, England National football team and Manchester City.
9. Jackie Chan while he was working as a nightclub bouncer spent two days after a fight trying to push his bone back into his fist. He later found that it wasn’t his bone, it was in fact the other guy’s tooth.
10. He got the name 'Jackie' while he was working as a construction worker in Canberra, Australia.
11. Nosebleed was a 2001 movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre, who stops a terrorist attack, had to be cancelled when the attacks happened in the real world.
11 Curiosities About The Amazing Actor Jackie Chan That You Probably Don't Know
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