Forever his own stunt double: the worst injuries to Jackie Chan

Since childhood, Jackie Chan (71) has already jumped in front of the camera. His first commitment is due to 1962 in “Big and Little Wong Tin Bar”, the star was just seven years old at the time. Chan now has 71 Lenze in the present, but he has not lost a bit of his youthful zest for action. On the contrary, in the associated interview to want to stay his own stunt double forever.

“I always make my own stunts,” Chan is quoted in it. “This is who I am. That won’t change until I retire – and that will never happen!” He jokes. He no longer has to prepare for Stunts, because: “If you train 64 years in a row, you no longer need physical preparation. Everything happens with heart and soul; it is muscle memory.”

However, his muscles could also remember the countless injuries that the actor suffered in the course of over six decades in the filming that they would probably refuse to serve him. Because sometimes only millimeters were missing and Jackie Chan would no longer be among us.

The human body has over 200 bones. “Many people say: ‘Jackie, you have already broken each of your bones.’ But that’s not true “, from Steve Harvey. But then, despite his words, he began an almost never -ended list of all of his broken bones that literally “from head to toe”.

The worst of it almost cost his life around 40 years ago: when filming for “Armor of God”, he should jump into a tree at great altitude and thus swing into a lead. But an branch broke and Chan unchecked.

Happiness in misfortune: he did not land a head on a stone, but initially on his shoulder. However, he wore a hole in the skull, as did a hemorrhage – a piece of bone had drilled into his brain. A surgical surgery saved his life for several hours, and an art plate under the scalp still has the terrible accident.

He had seriously injured his head around ten years earlier. In “Hand of Death” he should jump from a moving truck. In doing so, he struck his skull heavily, but performed the stunt immediately and now successfully a second time. After that, he collapsed for about an hour.

In 1983 the star also fell from a great height when shooting “Der Superfighter”, previously hanging on the pointers of a tower clock. Two awning braked his case, a serious neck injury, luckily without paralysis consequences, Chan contracted. In other places on the film, he still broke his nose and a few fingers …

In the 1985 action film “Police Story” he got several different injuries in a stunt. In a shopping center, Chan jumped to a rod for a scene, slid it down and through a glass pane. In addition to electric shocks, he is said to have suffered strong burns on the hands, as well as several cuts, injuries to pelvic and vertebral bones as well as the mandatory broken finger.

Chan could also be blind in one eye for almost 50 years. In 1978 he turned the cult classic “Drunken Master” and got a kick by the actor Hwang Jang-Lee unhappily in the face, which caused a serious injury to one of his eye sockets. Only through immediate treatment – and once more ridiculous happiness – can Jackie Chan see in both eyes to this day.

It is just a small excerpt from the countless injuries that the actor had to suffer. But they already show impressively: In addition to his resistance, Chan must have a very stress -resistant guardian angel. It is not known whether the 71-year-old was also injured in the shooting of his new film “Karate Kid: Legends”. Already on May 29, the continuation of the original in 1984 ends up in German cinemas.