Thank you, Jackie. Thank you, um, is seeing the audience full of people in the theater, obviously these kinds of adoration respect his all around the world for you, but I think Australia will have to say, the guy the lead on in on the rest of the world because the claim you as the. So welcome back. Thank you.
I don't know, but I don't know what kind of language you wish, we should speak or Cantonese or Mandarin or English. I know there's a half a half a half. Yes, so I know everybody. Most Chinese Cantonese or Mandarin.
Mandarin.
I speak.
Yeah, I think,
I think, for the benefit of people who actually in the audience probably speak only Chinese, let's start. Oh sorry only English started
with English, okay. All right.
Now, it's very impressive with your three dreams, obviously it's very close to your heart, but we will leave that a little bit later on, I would like to start by saying that I have to admit, I'm also a Jackie Chan fan. I'm a few years younger than you, but not that much younger. So we probably went through the similar hard training regime, You went through the Peking opera kind of training, the drama and went through the martial art trainings and I on the other hand, did ballet, but I have to admit, Kung Fu, was my secret dream. As part of the seven year training at the Beijing Dance Academy from 11 to 18. We didn't just train ballet, but we also try and Chinese folk dance but also martial art martial arts for five years. So I grew up, like all Chinese is sort of dream to become a kung fu master. So that's my secret dream but I didn't get that far the five years of training of as a martial arts, the patient outcome as close as I actually got to kung fu. And it was very funny, I was a few days ago I was telling my 24 year old son, Tom. And because we have been when he was younger, we've been watching some of your old films, and he loved you as well, and I told him that I was going to come here to interview you. And he confessed for the first time. Isn't that I said I have to confess something to you. And he said that when I grew up. And when you showed me the Jakku, Jackie Chan films, he said I had this secret feeling that you may not be the famous ballet dancer, but you could be Jackie Chan. So uh, so I think, I think you're more popular in my household, then then then myself. But let's, let's go, go to the business side of things. You have been making films, all around the world but also in Australia and UK can you share with us. This time back. Is it different to your previous times I think you might have filmed in Melbourne, Brisbane, but, you know, in Sydney, do you what do you love most about coming back to Australia but what's your experience differently.
There's a big difference when I come to Australia when I was 17. This, I think the whole country about like a 13 million people, that's all. I was in camera, which very few people know. The country is so big. So let me say, we're from Hong Kong Hong Kong, just a tiny small 7 million people wherever you go that people people people in Canberra 505 o'clock. I walk on the street, nobody.
I just remember, Lolo, memory, really. We don't have a opera house yet and their time. And suppose I'm gonna come back to Australia for camera for with my parents, and as a holiday. Somehow I cannot stay anymore. I tried to training, but at that time, you know 20 Bell. Bell jeans and tight tie shirt with a den jockey on the street because I don't I didn't bring any, any change suit. Jogging jogging, then the Costa, the okay and that time my English not really very nice people. You want to ride you you exercise. Okay, they go away then I can keep on stop doing so I'm missing the road, then somehow, that's how I feel, in, in camera when I come to Sydney, not, not like today so many big buildings and all those years, I just feel my parents get very good take care of a for the whole Australia. So they immigrate here, they buy house here. Now, even they update the pathway that they buried in in camera. After the two weeks later I have to go back to vitamin to vitamin Carpo, yeah. So, and that time, I feel like Australia as a part of my home. So, whenever I have a change, then the first movie I make is Mr. Nice Guy. It's a Mr. Nice Guy Yes, I say Mr. Nice Guy, then we worked there for like four months. Then after I go back, I get a very good experience then I just tell my next move is first try, then coming back again. I cannot remember Brisbane and Melbourne I always mixed up, always been done, boom, Brisbane Melbourne. I mixed up, then I've big action sequence. We do a lot of big action Snow Mountain versus Snow Mountain in Brisbane and Melbourne. Melbourne. Melbourne. Yeah, there's no mountain. Yeah. Snow Mountain. I tell, I tell you a very good. It's a very funny joke, my one of my friends will call I have to go back to a camera to see my friend and my friend is I want to come with you but I had to stop the snow, Brisbane, American Melbourne. Melbourne. Crown casino where's the crown Chrissie Melbourne. Melbourne. Oh, I was in Brisbane, somehow, somehow, I have to go back to see my parents. You got you come with me okay I come with you. But before you have you stopped in Melbourne, I said okay, then we call the Melbourne gonna call my friend, I called my friend after dinner. Okay, then as soon as I landed my friend picked up from everything he has car and everything I called my friend. Hey, I'm in Melbourne you come over. Yeah, I picked me one and a half hour flight, where are you. Okay, forget it. The next day, I tell my friend. My friend said, Let's fly to Canberra, no easy drive three hour drive, three hour. Sure. Yo, get up. Now we're gonna get on. I put all the language that caught my father, I said, 12 1230, in camera in some corner waiting for me. Okay, okay, I have the phone. Yeah, I keep driving. I my friend that cannot and God put the imass to sleep. And I driving, he was gambling the whole night. Driving, driving, driving, three hour pass. I still cannot find a way to pass by friend job, get up. I'm hungry. No, no, not not there yet. Then I keep driving. Certainly I see the sign. Another 900 mile. Then I call my father, father. I see you tonight. I keep driving until three o'clock, my friend Kayla, no, no sleep sleeping. No, I can't listen anymore. Oh my god. I always get mixed up. And I got three stuff by the police.
