[ Applause and Cheers ]

>> Let's talk.

Let's talk.

[ Shouts from Audience ]

I love you too.

[ Laughter ]

Thank you.

Thank you.

>> Thank you, Jackie.

>> Thank you.

>> Just seeing the audience full of people in the theatre,

obviously, this kind of adoration and respect is all

around the world for you, but I think Australia will have

to say we've got a lead on the rest of the world,

because they claim you as their own.

So welcome back to Australia.

>> Thank you.

[ Applause and Cheers ]

And I don't know, tonight, I don't know what kind

of language you wish to speak.

Cantonese or Mandarin or English.

I know there's --

half-half-half, so [foreign language spoken] everybody.

[foreign language spoken]

[ Applause ]

In Australia, are most Chinese, Cantonese, or Mandarin?

[ Audience Responds ]

See, Canton and Mandarin!

[inaudible] Mandrin, okay.

I speak -- yeah.

>> I think --

>> A mix.

>> I think for the benefit of people

who are actually speak only Chinese, let's start --

I'm sorry, only English.

>> English.

>> Let's start it with English.

>> Okay.

>> All right.

Now it's very impressive with your three dreams.

Obviously, it's very close to your heart, but we will leave

that a little bit later on.

I would like to start by saying that I have to admit,

I'm also a Jackie Chan fan.

[ Applause and Cheers ]

I'm a few years younger than you, but not that much younger.

So we probably went through the similar hard-training regime.

You went through picking opera kind of training, the drama,

and went through the martial arts trainings, and I,

on the other hand, did ballet,

but I have to admit Kung Fu was my secret dream.

As part of the seven-year training

at the Beijing Dance Academy from 11 to 18,

we didn't just train ballet,

but we also trained Chinese folk dance

but also martial arts for five years.

So I grew up, like all Chinese, is sort of dreamt

to become a kung fu master.

So that's my secret dream, but I did get that far.

The five years of training as a martial arts

at the Beijing Dance Academy as close as I actually got

to Kung Fu, and it was very funny.

It was, a few days ago, I was telling the 24-year-old son,

Tom, and because when he was younger, we'd been watching some

of your old films, and he loved you, as well, and I told him

that I was going to come here to interview you,

and he confessed for the first time.

He said, "Dad, I have confessed something to you."

And he said, "When I grew up,

and when show me the Jackie Chan films," he said,

"I had this secret feeling

that you may not be the famous ballet dancer,

but you could be Jackie Chan."

[ Laughter ]

So I think you are more popular in my household than myself,

but let's go to the business side of things.

You have been making films all around the world,

but also in Australia, and can you share

with us this time back, is it different

to your previous times?

I think you made films in Melbourne, Brisbane,

but you know, in Sydney, what you love most about coming back

to Australia, but what do you experience differently

to other times?

>> There's a big difference.

When I come to Australia when I was 17, that's, I think,

the whole country about 30 million people.

That's all.

I was in Canberra, and there is very few people.

You know? And the country is so big and it's

so [inaudible] away from Hong Kong.

You know, Hong Kong, it's just that tiny, small,

and there's 7 million people.

Wherever you go there are people, people, people.

In Canberra, 5 o'clock, I walk on the street.

Nobody. Really.

And I just remember a lot of memories, really,

that we don't have an opera house yet at that time,

and suppose I'm going back to Australia for Camberra

for visiting my parents and as a holiday,

somehow I cannot stay anymore, I tried the training,

but at that time, you know, 28, bell jeans, and tight,

tight shirt with then jogging on the street,

because I didn't bring any training suit.

So I was jogging, jogging, and then.

Then the car stopped.

"Are you okay?"

And at that time, my English was not that good.

I just, "Eh, eh."

They really very nice people.

You want a ride?

"Eh. Exercise."

"Oh, okay."

They go away, then a car.

They keep on stop.

They thought I'm missing the road, you know?

That somehow, that's how I feel in Canberra.

When I come to Sydney, it's not like today.

So many big buildings.

Then all those years, I just feel my parents get very --

could take care of it for the whole Australia.

So they emigrate here.

They buy a house here.

Now even they after they pass away, they buried in Canberra

after the two weeks later, I have to go back to [inaudible].

[ Inaudible Speech ]

Yeah, [inaudible].

So and that time, I feel like Australia is a part of my home.

So whenever I have a chance,

then the first movie I make is Mr. Nice Guy.

[ Cheers ]

It's Mr. Nice Guy.

Yeah, I think Mr. Nice Guy then we worked there

for like four months.

Then after I go back, I get a very good experience.

Then I just tell my whole crew, the next movie is first try,

then coming back again I cannot remember Brisbane and Melbourne.

I always mixed up.

Always, boom, boom, boom.

Brisbane, Melbourne, I mixed up.

Then, a big action sequence, and we do a lot

of big action snow mountain.

Where's the snow mountain Brisbane or Melbourne?

>> Melbourne.

>> Melbourne, yeah, there's snow mountain.

Yeah. And the snow mountain.

I'll tell you very good -- there was a very funny joke.

One of my friends, I had to go back to Canberra

to see my friend, and my friend said, "I want to come with you,

but I have to stop -- the snow mountain Brisbane."

or Melbourne.

>> Melbourne.

>> Melbourne.

Crown Casino.

Where is the Crown Casino?

>> Melbourne.

>> Oh, Melbourne.

Oh, I was in Brisbane somehow.

Somehow, I was there.

I said, "I have to go back and see my parents.

You come with me?"

"Okay, I come with you before you have to stop and Melbourne."

I said, "Okay."

Then we go to Melbourne, then I call my friend.

I said I call my friend after dinner,

but as soon as I landing, I said,

"My friend take care of everything.

He has car, and everything."

I call my friend, "Hey, I'm in Melbourne.

You come over."

"Yeah, it takes me one half hour flight and where are you?"

"Brisbane."

[ Laughter ]

I said okay.

Then forget it.

The next day, I tell my friend, my friend said,

"Let's take a flight to Canberra."

I said, "No, easy drive three hours."

I said, "I always drive three hours."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, sure, sure, sure."

We get up.

I said, "No we're going to get in the car

and put all our luggage," and that I call my father, I said,

"12:30 in Canberra in some corner waiting for me."

Okay? Okay.

I have the phone.

I keep driving.

Then my friend got out of the car, put the eye mask,

then tried to sleep, and I'm driving,

and he was gambling the whole night.

[ Laughter ]

And we're driving, driving, driving.

Three hours passed.

I still cannot find the way.

My friend, all the sudden get up.

"I'm hungry."

I said, "No-no-no, not there yet."

Then I keep driving.

Suddenly, I see the sign.

Another 900 miles.

[ Laughter ]

Then I call my father, "Father, go.

I see you tonight."

[ Laughter ]

Well, I keep driving until 3 o'clock.

My friend got up.

I said, "No-no, sleep, sleep."

[ Laughter ]

"No, I cannot sleep anymore.

Oh, my God, where are you going?"

I said, "I don't know."

Still driving.

[ Laughter ]

That's how I always mixed up,

and I got three stops by the police.

That's how I remember, but these days I'm coming back.

No matter I have a chance, I just Canberra, Canberra,

Australia, Australia, because we know the crew here.

We know a lot of crew members here.

We have a lot of good friends here.

It's very easy to make a film here, and also,

especially this time, you know, when I'm [inaudible] the harbour

and whatever, the things around here.

This easy.

I just called the commission.

I want to film here.

Okay, whatever you want, except you not blow up the harbour.

I said okay.

You know, last -- two months ago I was blow up the London Bridge.

The big news, boom.

I said [inaudible].

>> Six months he applied for.

>> Applied.

Then the government, everything's okay,

then of course, they will make somebody do it, and that day,

boom, and everybody thought it was a terrorist attack,

and the news, everybody, they blame me.

"Jackie, how can you do that?

You should tell us!"

How can I tell everybody.

I already tell -- we already tell 100,000 people surround ,

the letter, I said, "We going to blow up the [inaudible], okay?"

[ Laughter ]

But how can I tell the tourists?

>> Jackie, I hope you will leave our bridge alone.

Well, Australia is just a little bit bigger

than Hong Kong, I think.

>> No, much bigger.

>> Well, when I grew up, and I look at your Chinese name

or when I thought I knew your Chinese name is Chan Long.

Now I always thought Chan

as your last name, Long as dragon, yeah?

So then when I was doing a bit of research before I came

to do the interview, I actually discovered it's not Chan Long,

it's Chun Long, is become the dragon.

Can you explain to us where does that name from?

>> That's interesting.

And also, my Jackie, my Jackie, Jackie, Jackie Chan,

Jackie's name is from Canberra.

At that time, I was in Canberra.

I didn't have nothing to do, and really, because I was going

to Canberra to visit my parents.

So every day, just follow my father, go to this restaurant

and go to that restaurant, go to that restaurant,