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Jackie Chan always has painkillers

Takes many medications: Jackie Chan

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Jackie Chan has painkiller all the time. Because of his decades-long career as an action star, he has broken just about every bone, so the 56-year-old martial arts artist can no longer refrain from medication. When asked if he often suffers pain he answers to the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Yes, my back pulls, so I always have painkillers with me, and I can not race too long because my ankles hurt." Even heavy lifting was not easy for him because he once injured his shoulder. "My doctor calls me every two months when I come to finally get the two screws in the shoulder and I've been saying for five years now that I can do it soon, " said Chan, who has been shooting since an accident in addition to 'the right arm of the gods' in the year 1986 also in one ear hard-of-hearing, after he got there a serious skull injury. Despite constant accidents, the Hong Kong-born actor never wanted to hang up his job. He explains, "What am I supposed to do, this is my whole life, I love movies, that's the only thing I can do, what job should I do otherwise?" In his new movie 'Karate Kid' for which he is In addition to Will Smith's son Jaden Smith, 12, Chan was satisfied with a less physically demanding role, "I can not do what I did 20 years ago, " he confesses, revealing why "I've seen so many action stars come and go, and once they stop fighting, the public no longer wants them." Therefore he had to change his role choice. His role model is Robert De Niro. "An actor who can fight, not a fighter who is acting, maybe I'll do one last action movie, I want to show the audience that I can do it at 56, " he reveals.

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