Knowing this, maybe he can work out a deal that Chaplin and Keaton’s estates can contribute to his medical bills.
It was also those legends’ own insistence to put themselves in danger for the sake of film that inspired Chan’s long legacy of personally performing his own stunts onscreen.
Jackie Chan has been subject of comparisons to silent film stars Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for his pristine physical comedy chops, which he must wear as a badge of honor since, as he told the New York Times in 1995, “I wanted to be like a Chaplin or Buster Keaton, but all the martial arts directors I worked with wanted me to copy Bruce Lee.”