Jennifer Love Hewitt: I was nervous on the first day that I had to do a stunt in front of him [Jackie Chan] because I was afraid that if I did it wrong he would karate chop me or something. [Laughs] He is a great teacher and he makes it look effortless and very very easy. Jackie really helped me a lot, he is the best. Jackie taught me everything that I did in the movie, I had no idea what to do, I just did what Jackie told me. He would tell me when to kick and when to hit people. I was terrified looking at these big guys, but I just followed Jackie’s lead.

Jackie Chan: One thing I really want to say is that Jennifer was really brave. I think it helped as she had a dancing background. You try to teach some people and they have no rhythm, they are just bam bam bam. Jennifer was really good.

Question: Jackie Chan, what do you find to be the biggest difference between the Asian audience and the American audience when you do movies?

Jackie Chan: Asian audiences know what to expect from me, they have already seen this kind of exciting movement already. American audiences are more into it. They respect the movies and the film business. They always go to a theatre to see a movie, they never buy a pirate version. In Asia, pirate copies are killing the movie business. Most people just wait until the pirate comes out to buy

Question: Jennifer you sing, you produce, you act, you’re very creative. What do you want to focus on?

Jennifer Love Hewitt: I hope to keep on doing them all. I like mixing it up a little bit, that way I never get tired of one thing.

Question: Jackie and Jennifer, if you could get a fancy tuxedo like the one in the movie, what functions would you like it to have?

Jackie Chan: First I would send it to some company to make more. If I could not do that then I would have it make a movie at daytime then at nighttime it would save the world.

Jennifer Love Hewitt: I would want to wear Jackie Chan’s tuxedo and hopefully my tuxedo would make me Jackie Chan so that I could do the stuff that he does every day.

Question: Jackie and Jennifer, what was the most difficult sequence to shoot and to get right?

Jackie Chan: For me the dancing part was the biggest problem. When I remember the step I forget the lyric. When I remember the lyric I forget a step. The dancing was horrible.

Jennifer Love Hewitt: The most difficult part for me was probably the pool scene where I am supposed to be drowning because I am claustrophobic and I have a huge fear or my head being held under water. I was terrified for nine hours while I was in the pool with this big guy continually dunking my head under water.

Question: Jackie and Jennifer, Had you guys met before? Had you done anything together before? Could you reflect on your first meeting together?

Jennifer Love Hewitt: When we first met Jackie was like “I don’t remember meeting you, Jennifer. [Laughs] Was she in the movie?” We first met in Toronto. Jackie was super busy and that day we read through the script for the first time.

Jackie Chan: When my manager said that Jennifer was going to be my new sidekick I didn’t know who she was, honestly. I would recognise her face but not her name. But when I saw her in “Heartbreakers” I know who she was.

Question: Could you both talk about some of the injuries that you incurred from filming.

Jackie Chan: I only pulled a hamstring, so I didn’t need a medic, just a massage

Jennifer Love Hewitt: I am a klutz. I was always hurting myself. I cracked my ankle during a triple kick scene. I had crutches and Jackie carried me around a little bit. He also came up with these cool ways of making me feel better as he had hurt himself so many times during his movies. It was no big deal.

Question: Jackie, what do you think about the use if the martial art in so many different movies today?

Jackie Chan: Doing martial arts for me is a daily routine, and after all these years I like to do something new. When I found out about “The Tuxedo”, that had all the special effects and Dreamworks involvement I had confidence in the film. The only thing was the dancing part. I am not very good at dancing. It just makes me nervous.

Question: Jennifer could you imagine doing a television series, or are you only committed to building a film career now? What kind of role would you like to play the most?

Jennifer Love Hewitt: I would love to do television one day but probably not for a while. I am really enjoying doing films and getting to play different characters. I do miss acting everyday. That was the great thing about being in television, constantly working on my craft. Every single day I was developing the same character over and over again. It was a good acting exercise.

Question: Jackie, as part of an Asian audience I wish American audiences had grown up with your movies like I did. Have you ever regretted not coming to America earlier because you’re still looking great and you’re still doing a great job and great movies?

Jackie Chan: I was thinking about coming to America about fifteen to twenty years ago, when I was really big in Asia, but when I came here nobody knew me. The American market totally destroyed my confidence. It makes me sad because when I looked at myself, I hated myself. But now I am just like a huge star. I’m a huge star in America. When I go back to Hong Kong, I change. I am humble, no more diamond watches. The American audience really changed me in that time. I think that now when I come back it’s the right timing, the right moment. In Asia I’m like an old star. In America I’m still new.

Question: Jennifer, I’m just wondering what you are more nervous about, this movie coming out or your new album coming out? And part two, will you be performing. I just saw you in Australia, and I was wondering if you’re going to be doing the same sort of thing in America?

Jennifer Love Hewitt: I’m going to be performing on a bunch of talk shows and everything like that coming up. I’m probably more nervous about the record coming out, you can’t be nervous about a Jackie Chan movie coming out. He’s the greatest ever and people are lucky to see his movies and I was lucky to get to be in it.

Question: Jackie and Jennifer, doing movies, you’re in the public eye all the time. What do you do to relax and yet try to stay away from the Hollywood crowd in your free time?

Jennifer Love Hewitt: When I’m not working I just hang out at home and I don’t really do much. I like to be quiet and hang with my family and my dog and eat pizza and watch TV.

Jackie Chan: For over fifteen years I don’t feel like I have a private life anymore. Before I was famous I could walk down the street, wear my glasses and nobody would recognize me, I could take off my glasses and still nobody would recognize me. But now, I cover my face and people still recognize me. I just don’t understand why. Sometimes I am walking so fast and people who are passing by are saying “Hi Jackie Chan.”

I don’t go shopping much. I mostly relax in LA because I have a big house. Not like in Hong Kong when three million doesn’t buy much. I enjoy staying at home, wearing my underwear, by myself. I train in the morning, just maybe a punch, punch; kicking, kicking and then I go into the garden and clean. And I go to the swimming pool and I cut some roses. I clean the whole garden, then go back, training, training, training, training. The go back to the swimming pool. I love to clean.

Question: Jackie, your character “Jimmy Tong” gets his new job in a very extra ordinary way. I just wondered if you ever had a similar experience to that or did you expect to be where you are today?

Jackie Chan: I’m quite lucky, I never had to go to an interview. I think I’m this kind, very shy person, and when I was seven years a director came to our school to choose a child actor, which turned out to be me. When I turned 11I became a low class stunt man. Which I think is too automatic becoming in the film business. After being a low class stunt man I became a high-class stunt man, and then a stunt co-ordinator.

The stunt co-ordinator then becomes an actor and then an actor / director. All my life I don’t think I can audition. When I come sometimes to America to audition people I feel shy. It’s just so hard when five people are so good and you have to choose one. That can really hurt you. Sometimes you have to choose these people and you know that you have to hurt one and from now on I’m just not going to do it.

Question: Jackie, which kinds of movies do you like to see when you’re not working? And which kind of movie do you prefer?

Jackie Chan : In the last couple of years I have tried to change myself. I don’t always want to do “Rush Hour One”, “Rush Hour Two”, even if you like it, I am tired. I flew to New York to see Ang Lee, we had a conversation and he’s writing a script with me, a drama. He says that he wants to write for me but right now he is doing an action film. I said okay, he left and then I left, also to do an action film. I want to change, I want to be a Robert De Niro. A bad guy and I want to do like a, “Tuxedo”, okay. If “The Tuxedo” was showing today, tomorrow I have, I hope I have a movie like “Kramer Vs Kramer”. Then come back; have like a Shanghai Night. The next movie will be a “Sixth Sense”. Then coming back as something else. I want to change my image. I want to be an actor.