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“I was quite tough on him”: Daniel Craig’s James Bond Director Made it Difficult for Jackie Chan to Suppress His Natural Instinct for One Movie


The legendary action star had to move away from his comedic persona to play an aging war veteran.
Jackie Chan is one of the most beloved action stars, who is known for his martial arts-meets-comedy films such as the Police Story franchise and the Rush Hour franchise. Chan has a trademark way of performing creative action sequences that defines his films.

However, the actor had to stray away from his brand when he collaborated with Casino Royale director Martin Campbell for the film The Foreigner. The director, who has made two James Bond films, revealed that he was adamant about Jackie Chan being true to his character of an aging veteran and was quite difficult on the actor.
Jackie Chan Subverted His Usual Characteristics For The Foreigner

Based on the novel The Chinaman, Jackie Chan’s The Foreigner sees him as a Vietnam War veteran who runs a restaurant business. The film follows his revenge spree when his daughter is killed in a terrorist attack. Director Martin Campbell revealed that he wanted to show Chan in a new light and that he was convinced that the actor could pull it off after watching the 2010 film The Karate Kid.
In an interview with Slash Film, Campbell revealed that he wanted Jackie Chan to suppress his natural tendencies and trademark mannerisms to serve the intense character in The Foreigner. He said,

“I was quite tough on him, in terms I wanted to keep the old man feel about him. I made his body language hunched a little bit, old man-ish… kept the action all within the military if you know what I mean…He agreed to do that, and you know, that was a great thing.”
The film also starred Pierce Brosnan and had a successful opening, earning $145 million against a $35 million budget. The film was met with positive reviews, with praise, especially for subverting the usual trademarks of veteran stars such as Brosnan and Jackie Chan.

Martin Campbell’s Films Before The Foreigner
Director Martin Campbell has been in the industry for five decades, having directed many films and TV series since the 70s. He specialized in the action genre, which made him the perfect fit for films like The Mask of Zorro, and its sequel The Legend of Zorro, and other films such as Defenceless and Vertical Limit.
His biggest contribution to the genre came with the James Bond film GoldenEye. It was the first film of Pierce Brosnan’s iteration of Agent 007 and is often regarded as a worthy successor to the Timothy Dalton films. The film was the first Bond film to use CGI, which set a much-criticized precedent for the Brosnan films.
Campbell also returned to helm the first Daniel Craig iteration of Bond, Casino Royale, which was again lauded for subversion from traditional Bond films. He is also the director behind the infamous dud Green Lantern, which according to him, should never have been made.
Campbell revealed in an interview with Screen Rant his opinion about the film,
“The film did not work, really. That’s the point, and I’m partly responsible for that. I shouldn’t have done it. Because with something like Bond – I love Bond, and I watched every Bond film before I ever directed it. Superhero movies are not my cup of tea, and for that reason, I shouldn’t have done it.”
After the disastrous Green Lantern, Martin Campbell decided to collaborate with Jackie Chan on the action film The Foreigner.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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