Apparently Jackie Chan couldn’t care less about Michael Cera‘s career. Cera told NME that Chan had no idea who he was when they both wound up together on BBC Radio 2. Chan was promoting his latest film “Karate Kid: Legends” while Cera was there to do press for Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme.”
“When I met him [Chan] though, he was like, ‘Who is this person, what’s going on?,’” Cera recalled. “We took a picture but I think he thought I was a competition winner.”
Cera continued, “He was like, ‘OK, let’s do a picture real quick. Come on.’ Not rudely. But I felt like I was invading his little personal time with his team before he goes on the radio. So I was like, ‘What am I doing here?’ But everyone was very sweet and I got to meet Jackie.”
Chan is back for “Karate Kid: Legends” after starring in 2010’s “The Karate Kid” reboot with Jaden Smith.
Cera, meanwhile, has his Anderson debut with “Phoenician Scheme” which premiered at Cannes. Cera also stars in “Sacramento” this year. Cera previously spoke out about his rise to fame, notably with beloved comedy “Superbad.”
“I didn’t know how to handle walking down the street,” Cera said to The Guardian in 2023. “Fame makes you very uncomfortable in your own skin, and makes you paranoid and weird. There were lots of great things about it, and I met a lot of amazing people, but there’s a lot of bad energies, too, ones that I was not equipped to handle.” He even turned down hosting “Saturday Night Live” in an effort to dampen his rising fame.
“There was a point where I wanted to stop taking jobs that would make me more famous,” Cera said. “I was kind of having a bit of a crisis. I was really not enjoying the level of heat. I really didn’t know if I was going to keep being an actor.”
Also in 2023, Cera admitted to GQ that after filming cult hit “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World,” he got “a little depressed.” In short, he didn’t want to return to daily life after production wrapped on the Edgar Wright ensemble film.
“We just had the greatest vibe with everybody,” Cera said of the cast, who recently reprised their respective roles for the Netflix animated series adaptation. “I think that trickled down from Edgar and the energy that he was creating. We all got to rehearse together and spend a lot of time together before we even started making the movie. It all just goes away, and you’re like, ‘Where did everybody go?’ [I] could have kept making that movie forever, even though it was exhausting.”
Cera’s filmography also includes “Barbie,” “Superbad,” and “Juno,” apparently none of which Chan has seen.
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