Popular Hollywood actor, Jackie Chan, has revealed when he plans to retire from his decades-long acting career.
The captivating movie star recently revealed that he has no plans to ever retire from his acting profession.
Speaking recently during an interview with Haute Living about his upcoming movie, “Karate Kid: Legends,” Jackie revealed that despite being 71 years old, he still performs his own stunts, and has genuinely no plans to stop anytime soon.
According to him, he’ll only stop doing his own stunts in movies on the day he retires, and fortunately for him, that day is never coming.
“Of course, I always do my own stunts. It’s who I am. That’s not changing until the day I retire, which is never!
When you’ve done it for 64 years straight, there’s no physical preparation anymore. Everything is in your heart and soul; it is muscle memory,” he said.
He also spoke about how technology has completely transformed how action sequences come out in movies nowadays, especially because he is a living witness to how the same scenes were shot back in the day with no computers.
Jackie disclosed that when he started shooting movies around 1962, the only way to deliver action scenes as an actor was to be right there to act it out on set, but tech has changed all that in recent times, and actors are now able to do anything and everything without breaking a sweat.
He then warned that producers should note that technological advancement is a double-edged sword, because while it means actors are constantly capable of doing the impossible, it also means the concept of danger will be overshadowed, thereby forcing the audience to seek more realistic alternatives.
“In the old days, the only way was to be there and jump; that’s it. Today, with computers, actors can do anything, but there’s always a sense of reality that you feel is missing.
On one hand, actors become more and more capable of doing impossible stunts with the help of technology. And yet, on the other hand, the concept of danger and limit gets blurred and the audience is numb,” he added.
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