Action star Jackie Chan wants to be taken more seriously as an actor in Hollywood.
He told Reuters he’d love to take on the kind of roles that Dustin Hoffman has portrayed in such movies as the savant in Rain Man or the father and actor who dressed as a woman in Tootsie.
“Nobody in Hollywood hires me to make a ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ (or) like ‘Sound of Music’ – actually I’m a pretty good singer – and nobody hires me to do this kind of film,” Chan said. “All we think about Jackie Chan: Chris Tucker, ‘Rush Hour’ one, two, and three … always action-comedy, action-comedy.”
He also talked about the role he regrets not going after and his ambivalence about retiring from action films. You can read more about that in Reuters.
