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Celina Jade is a one in a million
talent, that can act, sing, fight do just about everything she puts
her mind to. What struck me most meeting and chatting with her, was Celina's quiet calm, demeanor, and kind generous heart. At the Florida
Supercon, she was giving free hugs to anyone she met, and rather than
talking about herself, she was asking about the people she met. A
genuine person, no ego, attitude, humble, and amazing. Her father is the
legendary Roy Horan, but she made it on her own, carved her distinct path
to excellence, and I am honored to share her vivid stories on Dan's
Movie Report. Sit back, grab some Ginger Tea, and enjoy 3,000 words
of Celina Jade, I gave her the questions printed out the day before to look over, and here goes a live exclusive chat with SHADO! Interestingly, for her panel discussion at Florida Supercon, she sat her chair on the floor, used no microphone, and asked us to huddle around her, fireside chat style, this displayed warmth and a single sense of being with the audience.
Above Pic: Celina on the floor at Florida Supercon!
Chat about Kung Fu Vettel, the action
short film with the racing legend.
Sebastian Vettel is the 3 time world
champion race car driver, extrememly talented. I did a short film
with him in 2012, where he teaches me to race around a track and I
teach him Kung Fu. I tried to beat his lap time, but the funny thing
is at the time I actually did not have a drivers license. Actually I
just got my driver's license, so I can fight and do all kinds of
things, but my driving sucks haha! Driving him was interesting, If
you look on Youtube behind the scenes, you see him freaking out. He
told me to go around the racetrack, as fast as you can, then you have
to break on the outside of the corner and cut the apex in a straight
line, I was unsure what the apex was. I assume now that was the
pinnacle of the turn. He told me to drift out. I thought, I got this,
I am a good student, and then I slammed the accellerator, and he goes
WHOA, let us do a slow run first, haha! I figured if we crash it is
just a bunch of tires it will be fine. Come on your a bad ass, I am a
bad ass, so lets get on with it hahahaa! That was kung fu Vettel, if
you guys like formula one he is very talented and funny guy.
Above: Celina Jade in Kung Fu Vettel: (C) 2012 Simon Woollard
.
Please chat about the film Legendary
Assassin, and your experiences on the set of the film.
Has anyone seen Legendary Assassin?
(and dead silence in the room, as of course, I was the only one haha
to actually have seen the film, but happy of course to educate the
Arrow fans, who were very cool)
This how I got into acting, I started
as a singer songwriter, I never knew I would get into acting. I
always admired people who could act, I was the shy kid who was too
scared to take drama, because I did not think I had what it takes to
be onstage. When I was signed to a record label in Hong Kong, my
music manager, knew my dad (Ron Horan) He played the token bad guy in
older bruce lee and Jackie Chan films. He used to wear spandex and
fight in the old martial art movies.
My manager said to me, “Hey, your dad
can fight, can you fight?” I said “Yeah” he said: “Why don't
you audition for this movie called Legendary Assassin.” The film
stars Wu Jing (now known as Jackie Wu) He is kind of the person after
Jet Li, he is a Wu Shu national campion, as well as some other really
big actors, and they are looking for a lead actress for that movie. I
was like ok, I will try out. My manager said the chances of you
getting this role are next to nothing, because they already have a few
big Chinese actresses in mind. I just thought, I will do it for
experience. I auditioned and forgot about it. A few weeks later I get
a call “You got it” I was shocked, I said “I got what, the
role?” I said “I do not know if I can act” this is trusting me
with your investors money, your reputation, you guys are insane haha.
Literally, I was thrown into the deep
end, I had to play a police woman, who falls in love with an
assassin. Lots of fighting, lots of stunts. In Hong Kong, the safety
is next to nothing.
How long were you on set of Legendary Assassin for?
We shot for three months, I trained 6
days of week, very intense, many hours a day with Wu Jing to the
point where lets just say, I have a small bladder, I go to the
bathroom a lot at night and I could not get up at night to go to the
bathroom, because I was doing so many sit-ups, I had to literally
roll off of bed to go, because my muscles were in so much pain. I
trained every day with the guys and Wu Jing a Wushu champion, he is
amazing, that is how I got my big break into acting.
Back then I did not know how to act, I
thought, how am I going to fall in love with this guy, haha. My
friend told me: “Celina, if you can convince someone of a lie, then
you can act” I thought: “I guess I have my rebellious years,
lied to my parents a few times haha.,I will try.” I tried to be
that character, which was really tough. My mom said, three months
after shooting the movie: “You are still walking like a man, haha”
I am a police woman, I am not going to be strutting down the street,
I am a tough cop. After that I took acting lessons and slowly
improved my art and really fell in love with acting, that is my
experience on Legendary Assassin.
I really enjoyed it, was a great
movie, you were fantastic in it.
Thank you. It is available on netflix
if you guys are interested in watching a foreign film.
Chat about a bit of behind the scenes
on Arrow (I had written the exact question to her, oddly another
audience member also asked, if you read this please let me know, I
will add your name!)
The first day on the set I meet Manu,
and he is on the floor doing push-ups and he was pacing and running
around the set and really hyped up, and Steven is doing pull-ups. I
thought, should I get down on the floor and start doing sit-ups,
haha. Should I fit in, these guys need to be super pumped, if you
look at Manu or Slade they are really pumped because before every
single scene he is doing push-ups sit-ups and running. I was
wondering, should Ibe doing jumping jacks. The guys especially Steven
were really protective of me, I had to stand on an apple box (height
extender box) and he said are you ok, I said if I cannot stand on an
apple box, I am not going to have much of a career as an actress and
martial artist especially in HK where you have to do your own stunts,
haaha.
Manu is a comedian, he followed me into
the toilet, not into the stall. In the wilderness in Canada where we
were filming the toilets are kind of far away cabins, he was getting
into his stalkerish mode for that scene, he said: “I am watching
you.” I screamed : “GET OUT!” I turn on all of the faucets so he
does not hear anything. Haha, fun times, I had to also do archery
training! (Ed Note, many more very cool arrow questions were asked by
the audience, I will uploaded additional video to youtube, above.
I intended also to ask this question as
a follow-up, and once again, another amazing audience member read my
mind! What is your favorite stunt to film?
I don't know, stunt work is usually
pretty dangerous. Oh I don't, know if there is a favorite stunt, I
don't know, just throw me down those stairs another five times.
None
for Arrow, but for Legendary Assassin, I will never forget. One of
the first scenes is me falling off the tree, that is two stories
high. We are on this island, on a public street. The villagers are
off on the outside, but they are able to watch the scene where I fall
of this tree and this guy catches me on his back.
I will never forget
this, I am on the tree, not scared of heights or anything, but I look
down, to my right the guy holding the wire and holding me up, and he
is wearing a wife beater, kind of a chunky big guy, wife beater
rolled over his big belly, he has a beer on the bottom, a cigarette in his mouth and he is holding the rope with ONE hand, with a cigarette, alternating cigarette, rope, rope, cigarette. Uh Oh, red
flag! I look over to him and said are you going to be all right, he
was like “Don't worry I got yah.” I thought All right I guess
this is what I signed up for, if I have to fall, just fall. I fall, and Wu Jing catches me with one hand and swings me down on the floor
and the villagers were all clapping and the sound guy goes CUT! Live
sound, we have to do the stunt again. I was like oh my God we have to
do it again. I think that was definitely one of the more “fun” or
crazy stunts I have filmed, interesting and funny.
In most of my experiences in Arrow and
other films most of the stunts are first attempted by guys. The will
try the stunt out to make sure it was safe. I remember in one of my
scenes, they put a wire up and I have to swing around a pole and kick
someone. For the guy he was heavier, I do the same stunt, and because
I am lighter, and the location of the hooks, I swung around and went
straight into the pole, bruised my entire leg, and was limping the
rest of the day. Same thing happened in Shanghai, for Kung Fu Vettel.
They lifted me up, I was in the air, I do a round house kick to the
guy's head (Ed. note, thank you Celina may I have another!) and the guy
dropped me to fast so my knee went straight into the concrete bridge.
My knee, blew up so much that I could hardly fit it into my jeans the
next day.
Again the same thing happened for
another movie where I am supposed to fight with this guy and kick him
then someone pushes me from behind or kicks me from behind and I fall
into a couch and the couch flips over, then I roll and turn up and
fight again. The stunt guy, who was a lot heavier, when he fell on
the couch,he actually flipped the couch and continued on. I fell into
the couched flipped the couch and continued to fly into the wall,
which was behind the couch. I will say I have a few battle wounds,
but nothing major, which is cool, actually it is fun. My mom hates
it, she says:“Why did I give birth to a boy?” Why do you have to
follow in your dad's footsteps?
On Arrow, I have a stunt double, which
is weird, but on a tv series, if you get injured, the filming has to
stop, and they are screwed. There is a lot of money and time invested.
They will not risk any dangerous stunt, fall etc.. They will always
use a stunt double. On Arrow, They use Kim Chiang http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1548530/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1, she is really good (she did
stunts for Kelly Hu as Deathstrike) another woman named Atlin Mitchell http://www.stuntscanada.com/atlinmitchell/, who
is very talented. (Ed note, shout out to the fantastic stunt
peeps!)
Talk about the new film Skin Trade.
Fantastic talent on that film.
It is called Skin Trade, I just did a
movie with Ron Pearlman, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White,
etc. Tony Jaa is awesome, no wires, he flies. I can attest to that he
does all his own stunt and he has no wires. Right now he is shooting
a new movie in HK and they put him in a wire and he was not used to
it, he had to jump and kick over a car and come on the other side.
They put him on a wire and he could not do it. He told his manager I
can do it without a wire. He did, he jumped over the car, spins in
the air lands on the other side.
Skin Trade comes out in May 2015, if
you follow me on FB Twitter or Instagram you will see it. It will be
a theatrical released film worldwide, rated really highly in a recent
test group.
Working with them in Bangkok was so
fun. Another action area, craziness. In one scene, someone pulled out the chair I was on and
I get kicked. I always get tied up and kicked haha. There were nails
sticking out of the chair, I am like um, can you pull the nails out,
before I go crashing into it? That was a really fun shoot, please
check it out. Skin Trade will have lots of action, and a very serious
subject of human trafficking.
Do you know about the rating yet, is it
actually going to have an R rating, or watered down PG 13?
I think it is pretty R, although that
we did film some scenes with two versions for certain territories.
China, and the middle east, it has to be toned down. No swearing,
shit becomes hell. Etc. Less violence (ED Note, less violence in a
Tony Jaa, Dolph, Michael Jai White, Ron Pearlman, Celina Jade film,
VERY BAD! We will take the actual R Rated version thank you!)
Like Skin Trade on FB @ https://www.facebook.com/SkinTradeMovie
He taught us to fight, we play fought
at 3, 4, 5 yrs old. We were wating for the bus and he was testing us
punch, punch, punch, block, block, block, he taught us, (my sister
and I) to block, kick, etc... My father told me, well actually I
learned the hard way, first, never to surprise attack him. I jumped
out at him from the side of a corridor where he was coming and said
boo, and he literally punched me in the stomach so hard, by natural
relex, I flew across the room onto the ground. I was down for two
minutes, my mom is screaming and I wake up, and go: WHOA that was AWESOME! I want to
learn how to do that! It is the only household where you get beat up
by your dad and you don't call the police. We still play fight, my
sister, and my dad, it is fun, I enjoy it!
(Above photo EXCLUSIVE!, Celina jade in Zombie Guillotines!)
I was bullied in school a number of
times and I would come back, and mom would always be the diplomat go
to the principal, and tell him what happend. I went to a bit of a
racist school, as I was the westerner in a Chinese local school. It
was tough, kids are kids, when you look different people judge. My
dad taught me how to Judo throw, and kick in the stomach hard, so
next time they won't bother you. It worked, when the boys bullied me,
one kick to the stomach, they never came back! (Ed note, needed you
in Jr high) My dad, would be defend yourself, never let anyone push
you around. When the diplomatic way does not work, be prepared. (Ed
note: Need her as bodyguard!)
Amazing interview, I could ramble on for another 5,000 words, but sadly this is where I end the text, Celina thank
you so much for sharing some amazing stories today, and watch for
more soon on Dan's Movie Report! For the great questions from rest of
the audience as well! (I only printed the questions that were asked by me, specifically for the interview.)
Danny, thanks for the questions and for
the fruit, it was delicious! (I gave her some mangoes, and avocadoes
from my yard.) Yeah pic is blurry, so what! She is holding my fruit, not yours. Haha!!
Keep reading Dan's Movie Report for
more SKIN TRADE exclusives! And for Celina Updates, photos, videos,
etc,,,
Finally Check out this cool picture of Celina, from Florida Supercon, she asked all of us to gather around for a group shot after the panel interview. Great Show! For more info on Supercon go to the Official Website @ www.floridasupercon.com
