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BRETT RATNER:
“Chris is truly a comedic genius. Jackie Chan is another type of genius. Working with Jackie, I feel like I’m a part of cinema history. He’s like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd all wrapped into one – the most experienced, talented physical performer I’ve ever worked with. You can’t take your eyes off of them, you really care about them. This is not something I created; it’s something that just exists.”
CHRIS TUCKER:
“Jackie makes the fight scenes easy. He tells me to go to my trailer [in Jackie’s voice], ‘Go to your trailer, I take care of you,’ so I would come back right before we started filming. He’d show me these easy steps, and I’d see it cut together and say, ‘Wow, that looks cool.’ Jackie is incredible with that stuff.”
JACKIE CHAN:
“I don’t worry about age, I just do it. I train a lot, and also the good thing is I’m a stunt coordinator myself so I know how high I can jump, I know how good I am, so this is why I choose the location and choose things to help me. If I’m tired we go do a dialogue scene.”
TUCKER:
“I work out just before I start doing the movies. I’ll go out on the road and do a tour to get my comedy chops together and get sharp and get my timing back. Other than that, I just show up and make sure I’m in shape. It’s a lot of hard work. We’ve got to do take after take, but Jackie is so good at what he does it makes it easy. I like the fight scene on top of the Eiffel Tower, Jackie choreographed that cool stuff.”
CHAN:
“In Hollywood they use a lot of special effects like Superman and Spider-Man. I think it’s clever. Hollywood can make everybody become an action star, everybody wears a mask. So actually I’m lucky. If everybody was like me I’d probably be gone already. The audience likes this kind of action, and I have my own audience, so I can’t retire.”
TUCKER:
“Most people are surprise [that I’m low-key]. I’m normally a quiet person; most comedians are quiet because we observe a lot of things.”
CHAN:
“On Rush Hour when Chris would walk away I always walked the other way. At that time my English wasn’t very good. He was hiding in his trailer and I was hiding my mine. After Rush Hour 2 we really were becoming good friends, I trusted him and he trusted me. Now we are like brothers. We call each other and go out to eat. Chris has changed. Before he was very quiet, but now he comes out of the trailer and talks.”
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