Action star Jackie Chan wants to work with son Jaycee on album and movie
PUBLISHED : Monday, 03 August, 2015, 11:15pm
UPDATED : Monday, 03 August, 2015, 11:31pm
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Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan said his relationship with son Jaycee Chan had changed for the better after Jaycee's time in jail. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan said on Monday that he wants to work with his son Jaycee on a movie and an album as they mend their relationship after Jaycee was jailed on a drug charge.
Jaycee Chan was released from a 6-month jail term in February after pleading guilty to allowing others to use marijuana in his Beijing apartment.
Jackie Chan said prison was good for his son because it made him mature and that their relationship had changed for the better.
“[Before,] I was too Chinese, traditional – you, son, go away, I don’t want to help you, you have to help yourself,” Chan said in an interview in Beijing.
When filming the remake of The Karate Kid alongside Will Smith’s teenage son Jaden Smith, Chan said he was struck seeing Will “helping his son to be in a movie, every day on the set”.
“I say why am I so stubborn? I have to help my son,” Chan said.
Actor-singer Jaycee Chan was released from a 6-month jail term in February. Photo: AP
The actor said he was looking for suitable movie projects for Jaycee, 32, and in the meantime his son would produce one of his records, expected to be out at the end of the year.
He hoped Jaycee would sing a duet with him on one of the tracks.
“Probably there is one song that we will sing to each other,” said Chan, adding that in it, he would apologise for ignoring Jaycee when he was young. “I say ‘sorry, I was busy at that time.”’
Chan said he was not sure his actor-singer son would go along with his plans, and that he might have to find someone else to sing it for him.
He said Jaycee wrote songs and scripts and read a lot of books in prison, and joked that a bit of jail time might be good for a lot of people.
“So many rich people, like some of my friends, they take 10 days or a month to the mountain to purify,” Chan said, adding that his busy schedule did not allow him to relax for 10 days.
“I think sometimes I should set up a ‘jail holiday’, force some rich people, even myself, to go to jail,” he said. “These days, all the people need to do this because they’re so busy.”
