Las Vegas shooting: Jackie Chan feels ‘useless’ in wake of mass attack
Chan fights the bad guys on screen but, following Sunday’s gun attack on a music festival,he feels conflicted as he continues the promotional tour for his new film The Foreigner
Jackie Chan wishes he could have used his martial arts skills to help those hurt in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.
“A lot of young kids say ‘Jackie, you’re a superhero. You’re hero.’ I really want to be a superhero [so] I can fly around the world, save the people, beat up the bad people, put them in the jail. But sometimes I watch this [and] I’m just useless,” Chan says. “[The] only thing I can do is pray for them.”
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Chan does get the chance to battle terrorists in his new action-thriller The Foreigner. The actor takes a dramatic turn as a grief-stricken father hunting the people responsible for an explosion that killed his daughter.
“I hope, through the movie, [to] tell people [to] stop this kind of violence,” Chan says. “It’s a good message to tell; stop these kind of terror things, stop the bombing, stop hurting innocent people.”