Never Grow Up

Jackie Chan

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781471177255
• eBook ISBN: 9781471177248
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016—after fifty-six years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones—he received an honorary Academy Award for his lifetime achievement in film. But at 64 years-old, Jackie is just getting started. Now, in Never Grow Up, the global superstar reflects on his early life, including his childhood years at the China Drama Academy (in which he was enrolled at the age of six), his big breaks (and setbacks) in Hong Kong and Hollywood, his numerous brushes with death (both on and off film sets), and his life as a husband and father (which has been, admittedly and regrettably, imperfect). Jackie has never shied away from his mistakes. Since The Young Master in 1980, Jackie's films have ended with a bloopers reel in which he stumbles over his lines, misses his mark, or crashes to the ground in a stunt gone south. In Never Grow Up, Jackie applies the same spirit of openness to his life, proving time and time again why he's beloved the world over: he's honest, funny, kind, brave beyond reckoning and—after all this time—still young at heart.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Cannonball
• Chapter Two: The Boyfriend
• Chapter Three: My Deepest, Only Regret
• Chapter Four: A Decade of Darkness
• Chapter Five: First Love
• Chapter Six: Number Nine
• Chapter Seven: My Big Breaks
• Chapter Eight: Welcome to Australia
• Chapter Nine: Australia, Round Two
• Chapter Ten: Becoming the Dragon
• Chapter Eleven: Overnight Success
• Chapter Twelve: The Ghost of Bruce Lee
• Chapter Thirteen: Welcome to Hollywood
• Chapter Fourteen: The Fling
• Chapter Fifteen: Free Fall
• Chapter Sixteen: The Gritty
• Chapter Seventeen: The Love of My Life
• Chapter Eighteen: So What if I Die?
• Chapter Nineteen: Wild Things
• Chapter Twenty: Fatherhood, Part I
• Chapter Twenty-One: One More Shot
• Chapter Twenty-Two: My Flashback Highlight Reel
• Chapter Twenty-Three: More Dollars Than Sense
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Costars
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Fatherhood, Part II
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Vintage Jackie
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: Taken for a Ride
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Give
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Karate Kid’s Dad
• Chapter Thirty: Sing
• Chapter Thirty-One: The Real Kung Fu Star
• Chapter Thirty-Two: My Three Fathers
• Chapter Thirty-Three: National Treasure
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Four Houses in Singapore
• Chapter Thirty-Five: For the Fans
• Kicker
• Photographs
• About the Author
• Copyright