Bruce Lee fight, Michelle Yeoh stunts: Jackie Chan memoir reveals bone-crunching movie moments

Apart from revealing aspects of his darker side, Chan’s memoir offers many insights into his early film career

‘It hurt, but I was honoured to have been hit by Bruce Lee,’ he writes of scene in 1973’s Enter The Dragon

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Jackie Chan says he was petrified of doing the crazy stunt in 1983 film Project A that saw him fall from a clock tower – and then he performed it twice.

Published: 8:02am, 6 Dec 2018Updated: 8:02am, 6 Dec 2018

Making Jackie Chan: The Movie might initially seem like a stretch for the martial arts living legend, now 64.

But this life story, as told in the star’s impossibly colourful memoir Never Grow Up, would have Charles Dickens speed-dialling Chan’s film agent for movie rights, with its tales of Chan’s impoverished youth (from age six, enrolled in the abusive China Drama Academy), lost loves, undying ambition fuelled by his insecurity over his upbringing, true bravery and eventual glory.

Apart from revealing his darker side, with tales of excessive drinking, visits to prostitutes and an affair, the book offers many insights into Chan’s career as a kung fu movie legend that film fans are sure to welcome.

Here are five movie moments, some bone-crunching, as described in Never Grow Up.

1. Young Chan played the best dead guy

After the impoverished stuntman was assured by the angry father of his first love that he would never amount to anything, Chan was obsessed with making it big.