Jackie Chan says his dream role would be portraying a firefighter, but he thinks he’s too old to play one.
"My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films. The firefighter is the only one I have yet to put in a film,” the 51-year-old Chan said in a posting on his Web site this week.
"I have dragged this idea on for so many years, even if I want to make it, now I feel that my age makes me unsuitable. If I do make this film, I would no longer play a firefighter, and would more likely be a firefighting captain. But if I were to be honest with you, the role I want to play most is the firefighter,” the action star said.
Chan, who recently served as ambassador for the World Firefighters Games in Hong Kong, has suffered numerous injuries from performing his own stunts.
His screen credits include roles in the "Rush Hour” movies, "The Medallion” and "The Tuxedo.”
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Former Creed singer Scott Stapp is suing in an effort to stop a California company from selling or promoting a sex video featuring himself, Kid Rock and four women.
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The federal lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday against World Wide Red Light District, is similar to one Kid Rock’s lawyers brought last month in Detroit.
A U.S. District Court judge there has signed a temporary order barring the company from distributing or promoting any portion of the tape, including a 40-second preview clip that was previously displayed on Red Light District’s Web sites.
Stapp’s lawsuit alleges that two tapes, described as a "video diary” of his 1999 concert tour, were stolen from a safe at his house. The suit states Red Light District violated his trademark and privacy rights, causing him embarrassment, pain, suffering and emotional distress.
The action seeks a restraining order barring the company from distributing the video.
A call placed to Red Light attorney Ray Tamaddon after business hours Tuesday went unanswered.
Red Light previously acknowledged the tape came from a third party, but Tamaddon denied that it had been stolen. He declined to say how Red Light’s source acquired the video.<
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