TAIWAN: Superstar Jay Chou comes back home to promote his new Hollywood movie 'The Green Hornet'

Record ID: 711516

  • Title: TAIWAN: Superstar Jay Chou comes back home to promote his new Hollywood movie 'The Green Hornet'
  • Date: 13th December 2010
  • Summary: TAIPEI, TAIWAN (DECEMBER 13, 2010) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) NEWS CONFERENCE CHOU AND NEWS CONFERENCE HOST LOOKING UP AT SCREEN (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) TAIWAN SINGER AND ACTOR, JAY CHOU SAYING: "I would like to tell all the kids, please learn English while you can. I was learning piano all the time, and I had no idea I would be going to Hollywood when I was a child. Who would have known? When I promoted my music, I was lucky because I had a translator to help me, but as for filming a movie, I have to speak it myself and most of the foreign cinemas don't show subtitles, so my pronunciation had to be good. I had to dub my own voice afterwards to make myself sound clearer." CHOU LOOKING AT A DISPLAY BOARD WITH A BUTTON TO PRESS "LIKE" IN FACEBOOK CHOU PRESSING THE BUTTON SCREEN SHOWING A FACEBOOK MESSAGE AFTER CHOU PRESSED BUTTON
  • Embargoed: 28th December 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Taiwan, Province of China
  • Country: Taiwan
  • Reuters ID: LVA8CWTTWUTGFKTTF38SG5I4IBO3
  • Story Text: Taiwanese superstar Jay Chou promoted his first Hollywood film "The Green Hornet" on Monday (December 13), in which he took on the role as a kungfu-practicing sidekick.
    Best-known for his Mandarin R&B music, Chou has ventured into Tinseltown, working with Hollywood director Michel Gondry to film a 3D movie based on the original comic.
    The movie is a re-make of an early TV series, in which the late Bruce Lee played a sidekick called Kato. The movie helped popularize martial arts in America, launching Lee's career in the process.
    Chou, who has starred in and directed a number of Chinese films including last year's "Kung Fu Dunk", said he had his own take on the character of Kato.
    "I went on the Internet to look at the film clips by him (Bruce Lee), and I found it very difficult to follow his moves. If I can't imitate certain moves, I resorted to alternatives. So that's why I had to deliver a little piano performance in the film, to make the character more romantic," he said.
    The film's protagonist Britt Reid, played by Hollywood funnyman Seth Rogen, is a playboy who was living a purposeless life until he meets an impressive and resourceful employee, Kato (Jay Chou). They work together to build a crime-fighting weapon called Black Beauty.
    Chou said perfecting his English pronunciation was his biggest challenge in making the movie.
    "I would like to tell all the kids, please learn English while you can. I was learning piano all the time, and I had no idea I would be going to Hollywood when I was a child. Who would have known? When I promoted my music, I was lucky because I had a translator to help me, but as for filming a movie, I have to speak it myself and most of the foreign cinemas don't show subtitles, so my pronunciation had to be good. I had to dub my own voice afterwards to make myself sound clearer," he said.
    The film, which also stars Cameron Diaz, and Austrian actor Christopher Waltz, is scheduled to premiere in Taiwan on January 28, 2011.
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