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Country: United States, Australia, United Kingdom. City: Bellevue, Laredo, Minneapolis, Norman, Shreveport(5 Aug 2015) CHAN TALKS CANDIDLY ABOUT ROCKY RELATIONSHIP WITH SON JAYCEE Things haven't been easy for Jackie Chan and his son Jaycee. The action star's son - who is also an actor and singer like his father - was released from a six-month prison sentence in February after pleading guilty to allowing others to use marijuana at his Beijing apartment. Chan, who admits he has a tough love approach to parenting, said Jaycee's incarceration has been "good for him." "It was good punishment," noted Chan. "For him, it's good. In the six months, now he reads a lot of books, writes a lot of songs, watches a lot of TV and movies and writes a lot of scripts. Before that happened, everyday he'd just fly to Japan, fly to Taiwan to see friends. Maybe he'd take two days to ten day to write one song. Now he writes so many songs. I thought wow, being inside is good for him. Every year he should go back inside for six months," said Chan, before adding "just kidding." Father and son are now working on an album as they go about mending their relationship - which Chan said was strained due to his "traditional" ways. "I was a too traditional Chinese father. Like, 'you, son, go away! I don't want to help you. You have to help yourself,'" recalled Chan. "After 'The Karate Kid,' and seeing Will Smith stop (his own work) for half a year to help his son to make the movie, every day on the set, carrying his son on the mountain, I said 'why am I so stubborn? I have to help my son.' And also my son, he's like 'I don't want my father to help me. I want to do it myself. I want to show the world without my father that I can do it myself.' And I wanted to tell the people 'I don't want to help my son. I want my son to do it himself.' It's like this wrong. Now I've changed," explained Chan. "After this lesson I changed. Now whatever he asks me, I will do it." Chan is now looking for suitable movie projects for 32-year-old Jaycee and, in the meantime, his son is set to produce one of his records, expected out at the end of the year. Chan's also hoping Jaycee will sing a duet with him on one of the album tracks. "Probably there's one song we will sing with each other. I will probably call him begging him to help me sing the song. It's got very good lyrics," said Chan. "When he was young, I ignored him. He sings in the song: 'when I need love where are you, even you go to the wrong school.' That's a true story. I said 'I'm sorry, I was busy dadadada'�but now�something like that. I don't think he will sing that song. What do you think? please click for source I don't think he will sing the song. If he doesn't want to sing the song, I will find some young kid to help me sing the song, for him." After the detention of Jaycee and other actors you can try this out on drugs charges, Chinese authorities said they would ban celebrities linked to drugs from appearing in movies and TV shows in China. However, the younger Chan still appeared in a small role in Chen Kaige's recent "Monk Comes Down the Mountain," which had already finished filming when Chan was detained. Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive:
