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AC
(MARIO): Melissa Sugihto, Le Mei-ling (asks) - Your hair is always
short. Have you ever thought of doing a role where your hair is
long and different?
JET:
I never got a chance! Twenty years ago, I made my first movie
called "Shaolin Temple," it took, all my hair gone. For six years!
I played three movies, for six years, always I have no hair! After
that (laughter) I never got a chance to make my hair longer.
AC
(MARIO): Do you want to be a director?
JET:
No. I want to become a producer. Because I've produced seven
movies in Hong Kong. Seven or nine. I think, producers more fun
because you make (the) story. You find the best director, the best
choreographer, the best actors. Everybody's very talented. Find
them, put them in the right order, make a wonderful movie. Finish
the dream. I think that's more interesting.
AC
(MARIO): I think we're running out of time, Michael, ask your last
question.
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AC (MICHAEL): Derek Tang asks us an interesting question. With "Romeo
Must Die," it was different with lots of special effects. He'd like
know, what was it like to work with special effects?
JET:
I think with "Romeo Must Die," it's the movie I call a starting
movie for Jet Li. Because I never know the audience, what do they
want. What do they want to see Jet Li's style? So I put a little
bit street fighting, little bit over do, little bit special effects.
So,
just try to give them each kind of action sequences, different kinds
of style. So then, I watch Internet, my website and the "Romeo Must
Die" website three hours a day! Trying to figure out what
the audience like, what kind of Jet Li style? Now I have some ideas.
Because
I think, in the next three to five years, few years, action movies
will go to the next level. The computer technology can help a lot
with the special effects. But they still need the actors to do something
by themselves! Even, the special effects guys, you do three movements,
stop! (Mario says, "Excuse me!" (laughter) Jet makes some
action moves with his body) The next time you need to stop here.
Do again, here! So that's it. Oh, we're lost. (laughter) So you
have to do it again from the beginning, do this again, and again.
It's not easy. So even the special effects is not easy to do.
AC (MARIO): What is the biggest fear that you have? Hurting
yourself in a rehearsal?
JET:
I remember many years ago, my first seven years. I made movies,
each time I've broken my leg, I've broken my arm, I've broken seven
pieces in my body. I'm real scared. I'm scared of making action
movies. Because I thought, maybe next time acting, I don't know
where it's broke, because all those pieces, seven pieces already
broken!
Then
one day, I just think about it. "Oh, Oh," I need to tell
myself. If I want to become an action actor I need to prefer to
break my legs again and again because just like people, they want
to join the army, they need to think about, if they join the army,
they need to go to war to fight, maybe they die. If you want to
become a policeman, you already prefer, maybe one day you're going
to die on the street. So, I don't have a chance, I love movies,
I love action movies, so even broken ten times, I still do it. And
I continue to do it (laughter).
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