If you’ve ever seen an ignored and lonely puppy desperate for attention and reinforcement, then you’ve seen Jackie Chan in interviews. ![]() He’s cocky and egotistical (though honestly, wouldn’t you be the same way if you were him), but he’s also nervous and humble around certain reporters and throngs of fans. You can play armchair psychologist if you’d like, analyzing how the fact that he was abandoned by his parents (who sold him to a Peking Opera school, where he met Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, and Yuen Kwai, among others) has driven this insatiable need on his part to be loved and accepted by fans while crippling him when it comes to close personal relationships (his marriage was a sham and his flings with sexy female starlets were constant fodder for Hong Kong gossip rags). ![]() I’m not saying whether this is good or bad, worth it or not merely that it occurred. Chan has sacrificed himself, his family, and just about everything else. He’s broken down, beat up, and will be lucky if he can remember his own name or walk in another ten years. ![]() He’s given everything for his art, everything to his fans. The slower Jackie Chan gets in his old age, the more he has to figure out what the hell it means for him to still be making movies.
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