So Chan, now 63, returned to Asia to work once again in his home region, when he got the call: Rush Hour was a massive hit. “Why are they laughing, I just don’t understand,” he thought. Terrible movie!” He sat there dumbfounded as moviegoers laughed through the premiere. Chris Tucker’s English, I don’t understand. “That’s a terrible movie,” Chan recounted saying. Chan agreed to do the Brett Ratner-directed 1998 action comedy in large part because it allowed him to speak in broken English.Īfter Chan wrapped Rush Hour, he told his manager he would never do another film like it again. In the late 1990s, his manager pleaded with him to make one more go at it: There was this project called Rush Hour, in which Chan would play a Hong Kong police inspector who teams up with a wise-cracking LAPD detective (Chris Tucker) to rescue a Chinese politician’s kidnapped daughter. “I was disappointed, ‘No more American market.’” “Nobody knew who this little Chinese guy was that spoke no English,” Chan told Yahoo Entertainment during a recent Role Recall interview (watch clip above). The martial arts wonder and ex-Bruce Lee stuntman was a superstar in his native China, but his attempts at going Hollywood in films like Big Brawl (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), and The Protector (1985) barely registered with stateside audiences.
Jackie Chan was sick and tired of trying to cross over into American movies.
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