Jackie Chan Wants to Slow Down, Scoping out Voice Acting

Popular martial-arts and action-film star Jackie Chan says now that he is in his mid fifties he would like to slow down a bit on-screen. The actor says he would prefer to do movies involving fewer stunts and do more voice-over work like his role in the upcoming animated feature Kung-Fu Panda.

“I just finished a movie called The Shinjuku Incident,” Chan told a news conference in Los Angeles over the weekend. “It’s just maybe 1 percent action. It’s heavy, heavy drama.”

“I want a change. I want to be a real actor, not [an] action star. An action star’s life is very short. I’m the myth,” Chan said. ["The action star] Jackie Chan is a myth. I’m still surviving right now, but in 30 years, I’m the only one [left]. How long am I going to keep fighting? I have to change, change and change. I’ve been encouraged.”

Chan recently turned 54. His most recent big-screen role was in the upcoming The Forbidden Kingdom, where he played a martial-arts master.

In The Forbidden Kingdom, Chan plays dual roles as Old Hop the pawnshop owner and as the Drunken Master, a role he first played several decades earlier. “I now realize that Drunken Master was 30 years ago,” Chan said. “My master already passed away, so now I’m the master. It feels funny, really funny. What can you do?”

Source: SliceOfSciFi.com