Martial arts star Jackie Chan has announced the start of filming for his latest movie, Bleeding Steel, in Sydney in what will be the largest budget Chinese production ever shot in Australia.
Fronting local media yesterday at the iconic Sydney Opera House, Chan said he was thrilled to feature the famous city in the opening scenes of Bleeding Steel which was lured to Australia as part of a NSW Government initiative to have more international films made in the state.
“I love Australia and that’s why I try to come back again and again and again,” he said. “I’m almost half Australian, my parents lived here for 40 years.
“I just love working here. Any way we have a chance we have to come back here we do, because we know the crew, we know everybody here.”
Chan added that he was looking forward to performing stunts on the Sydney Opera House – even if age made performing them more difficult than it once was.
“The first time the director said the Opera House have let us film chasing around it, I said ‘No, everybody is chasing around.’ I have to jump from the roof. That’s what I want,” he said. “The big jumps, the roof, these kind of things I want to do it myself, because of the memories.”
Chan is the second highest earning actor in the world after Robert Downey Jr.
