Jet Li
Jet Li Trivia
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Jet Li founded the One Foundation in 2007. Its goal is to assist charitable causes in China and in Asia. The organization raised about 100 million yuan to aid in the recovery of Sichuan province after the May 2008 earthquake.
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Jet Li appeared opposite Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao in a TV commercial for San Miguel Beer.
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Li was nominated as Best Villain in the 1999 MTV Movie Awards for his role in Lethal Weapon 4, one of the Hollywood films which made him famous in the US. He was also nominated for three consecutive years (2001-2003) in the category Best Fight for Romeo Must Die, The One, and Cradle 2 the Grave.
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Li appeared in Aaliyah's music video of "Try Again" in 2000.
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Jet's father passed away in 1965 while her mother passed away in 2002. He has two older brothers and two older sisters.
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Jet Li's Mandarin name is "Li Lianjie". His Cantonese name is "Lei Lin-Git".
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Jet Li used to be married to Qiuyan Huang, from 1987 to 1990.
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Jet Li was the biggest Asian move star since Jackie Chan whom he teamed up with in The Forbidden Kingdom in 2008.
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Jet Li provided voice-overs for Kit Yun in the video game Rise to Honor in 2003.
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Jet Li was paid $5 million for Kiss of the Dragon. He was paid $7.5 million for The One.
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Jet Li was given an opportunity to star in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but chose to turn it down due to his wife's pregnancy.
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Jet Li's directorial debut was the movie Born to Defend.
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Like Bruce Lee before him, he would take from any style and was very conscious that, once a new move or routine was performed, it was inevitably copied.
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Jet Li hates to be called a prodigy.
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Jet Li hurt his foot while escaping the tsunami that followed a 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean with his four year old daughter.
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Jet Li is 5'7" (170 cm) tall. He weighs 145.5 lbs. (66 kg).
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Jet Li won Chinese national championship in the acrobatic martial art wushu when he was 11. His prize was a trip to Washington D.C. to meet President Richard Nixon. He performed before the President and Henry Kissinger on the White House lawn.
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On April 19, 2000, Jet and wife Nina Li Chi became parents to a 6 lb. 13 oz. daughter, Jane. Li and Nina, an actress and 1986 Miss Asia Pacific, got married on September 19, 1999.
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Jet Li studies English with a tutor for four hours a day.
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Jet: I like to study human (character), the different colours, languages, religion and people's desires. Many want to be happy. But how much times in a day are they happy, two hours? Is that enough? They are happy for about two hours a day and the rest of the time they worry about their business and other issues. I want people to be happy all the time.
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Jet: (prior to making "The Forbidden Kingdom") I have met Jackie Chan about 6 times up till now. And even though many people think we are natural enemies, I personally think he is a cool bloke and would honestly love to work with him in a film one time - that would a well brilliant movie!
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Jet: You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!
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Jet: Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. But on this film, we talked about a totally different angle to see my character.
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Jet: I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years. Huo Yuanjia is a conclusion to my life as a martial arts star.
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Jet: So what's so special about Jet Li, then? You need to show me something. That's why I decided to make a hardcore fighting movie. More real. For real. That way I can help more people understand Jet Li's style... my martial arts style.
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Jet: I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.
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Jet: We need families to start taking more responsibility in understanding which movie is good for their children and which movie is not.
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Jet: Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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Jet: You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!
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Jet: My personal philosophy stems from the deep understanding of martial arts and Chinese culture, and especially in the past eight years, the Buddhism thoughts shaped my ideology.
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Jet: Religion and politics are different topics. In my opinion, national borders and ethnic questions are political not religious questions. The issues concerning the Chinese government and Tibet are that of an administering country managing an internal situation. I personally don't have any political opinions.
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Jet: Nothing in this universe is permanent. If there is a beginning, then there is an end. After the end is another beginning. Life is like this. You are born, you die, and are born again and die again. This is samara. All things are in a continuous process of change, which Buddhists call impermanence.
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Jet: When you learn something, always use the heart.
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