Overview

• Jackie Chan reenacted his uncredited fight scene from Bruce Lee’s 1973 classic Enter the Dragon in front of festival audiences, recalling how Lee accidentally struck him with a stick yet pressed on.
• He was honored with Locarno’s Pardo alla Carriera award, where artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro praised him as a true genius who reshaped the action genre.
• He detailed his transformation from a lazy, naughty child sent to martial arts school into a stunt performer, admitting he still wonders before every dangerous stunt, ‘Am I going to die this time?’
• He spoke about his absent father sending him voice recordings and confessed that listening to them now would bring him to tears.
• He stressed a perfectionist, self-reliant filmmaking method, revealing he once did his own makeup to prove himself and later took on directing duties to control every aspect of production.