Jackie Chan's Hard Road to Hollywood
FeaturesJackie Chan's journey to success in American movies wasn't an easy one. We chart his story...By Craig Lines | April 6, 2018 |Share on Facebook (opens in a new tab)Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab)Share on Linkedin (opens in a new tab)Share on email (opens in a new tab) | Comments count:0 On paper, Jackie Chan’s long and varied career may seem like a fairly obvious trajectory. He started acting at five years old and trained under prestigious masters in drama, acrobatics, and martial arts. By seventeen, he was working as a stuntman on major Hong Kong productions and, although his early films as a lead actor weren’t successful, he hit national stardom in 1978 withSnake In Eagle’s ShadowandDrunken Master.At the dawn of the 1980s, Jackie Chan was one of the most popular stars in Hong Kong but found himself anxious to get away from the corruption in the film industry there at the time. He decided to try his luck replicating his Eastern success in the West and, of course, the rest...