At a Christmas Day press conference in Beijing for Jackie Chan's new Movie "Dragon Blade," the martial arts actor clowned around, even sticking his head in a cutout of a woman to make the audience laugh.

Film director Daniel Lee attended the conference with actors and actresses in the leading roles, including Lin Peng, and Amanda Wang.

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In the conference, the preview of the "Dragon Blade" was released. There are amazing war and fight scenes. Director Lee promised that the production of the movie will be finished soon and the movie will release on Chinese Lunar New Year.

As the producer and main role, Jackie Chan recalled the hardship of the movie. "There were nearly 800 people on the spot every day. The staff was often back to hotel at midnight and woke up at 2 in the very early morning to work. The small things like drinking water and pee took a few hours."

Lee explained that the temperature in the location was as high as 40 degree Celsius, "this most hateable thing is actors' changing clothes. It took an hour every time for them to change clothes, but Jackie Chan never changed clothes."

Talking about actions, Chan said there are big differences with the actions in "CZ12". There are more realistic style actions in "Dragon Blade" and is "a real action". As a fan of Chan, Lee revealed that the role of Chan in the movie is designed as the image of Jackie Chan in his mind.

Hollywood stars John Cusack and Adrien Brody also star in the movie. Jackie Chan talked about their cooperation. He said that he worried about their actions at the beginning, so that he mailed a fake wooden sword to Cusack for him to practice. Jackie Chan also praised Brody, saying he is very smart and did great in the movie.

The "Dragon Blade" will be released on the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day in 2015 with the format of 2D, 3D,and IMAX 3D.