But that wasn't quite correct, it seems, and the actor posted the following on Facebook to clear things up:
"I just want to let everyone know that I am not retiring from doing action movies. What I meant to say is that I need to do less of the life risking stunts on my movies. After all these years of doing so many stunts and breaking so many bones, I need to take better care of my body so I can keep working."
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He also said in the original Cannes interview that he wants to be "an Asian Robert De Niro. I don’t just want to be an action star, I want to be a true actor. I want to get rid of my image... I want the audience to know I’m not only a comedian. I can act. Day by day, year by year, I’m going to show you the real Jackie Chan.”
Chan will be directing Chinese Zodiac from his own script, which centers on a master thief searching for a set of mystic artifacts: 12 bronze heads of the animals from the Chinese zodiac.
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