Joshua Jackson Says Jackie Chan "Has a Master's Eye" at the 'Karate Kid: Legends' Premiere | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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At the 'Karate Kid: Legends' premiere, Joshua Jackson shares with THR that he watched the first film in the franchise for the first time when he was six years old. Plus, he dishes on working with Jackie Chan, saying "he has a master's eye."

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00:00What was your first entry point into the Karate Kid franchise?

00:03Do you remember first watching the movie?

00:05Yeah, I think I was a six-year-old in San Francisco

00:10and then spent the next two years of my life in what I called kung fu shoes,

00:16which were just slippers, thinking that I was going to be a martial artist.

00:21Yeah, I remember it well.

00:23And now here you are.

00:24What kind of stunt work, if any, can we expect from you in this film?

00:28I don't have to do the high-flying stuff, so my feet stay on the ground.

00:32But the character is a boxer,

00:35so there's quite an involved sequence of boxing and training in the center of the film.

00:41What kind of training did you do to prepare for that?

00:45It was actually quite a lot.

00:47I thankfully boxed, so I had a little bit of a foundation,

00:50but upped the training at home in Los Angeles.

00:53And then when I got up to Montreal, we got into two-a-days

00:55and was on a crazy nutritional plan where I was a lot of sparring.

01:00But also, once you get into it, it's less...

01:03I spar on my own time, but really it's just about learning the sequence.

01:06It's kind of like a dance, right?

01:07Stunts.

01:08So you have to make sure that you're in the right spot so they can be in the right spot

01:10so everything works as it's supposed to.

01:13So once you get the foundation of the movement down,

01:15then it's just about locking in the specifics

01:17and making sure the hits look like hits for the camera, all that silly stuff.

01:21Well, working with someone like Jackie Chan,

01:23does that motivate you to push yourself when it comes to your own stunt work?

01:26Well, not only does it push you, but he has a master's eye.

01:32So if a hit is not a hit or if the elbow is dropped or your shoulder is the right,

01:36he's like, no, no, no, no, no.

01:37It's like this.

01:39He's directing you.

01:40Well, it's part of what is so wonderful about him as a man and an actor and a movie star.

01:45And I didn't know this until I got to work with him,

01:47but he so clearly loves the process of making movies.

01:51And so it's not that he's directing.

01:53It's that he can't help himself, right?

01:54It needs to look right because that's how it's supposed to be.

01:57So he just goes in and it's like this.

01:58And he just gets it all right.

02:00Yeah.

02:01Well, I want to switch gears a little bit.

02:02I know.

02:03Did you hear that John Oliver is advocating for Dr.

02:06Only did I hear.

02:07I saw.

02:08And if I was more proficient at Instagram,

02:10I would have plastered that everywhere.

02:12Should probably still do that because thank you, John Oliver.

02:14Or whether or not they pick us up or not,

02:16I kind of feel like my career can end now

02:19because I got the shout out on the John.

02:20No?

02:22Shouldn't have said that.

02:23Okay.

02:23Well, I hope my career doesn't end now,

02:25but I kind of feel like I've made it now that I made it on the John Oliver show.

02:29But if it does, it's great because you got a John Oliver shout out.

02:32Exactly.

02:32I got the John Oliver show.

02:33What more do I really need out of that experience?

Joshua Jackson Says Jackie Chan "Has a Master's Eye" at the 'Karate Kid: Legends' Premiere | THR Video

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