Paul Feig has been directing movies in Hollywood for more than a decade, having delivered comedies like Bridesmaids, The Spy, Ghostbusters, A Simple Favor, and Last Christmas. He is back with his next film, Jackpot, which stars Awkwafina and John Cena as an unlikely duo trying their best to escape being the target of a multi-billion dollar jackpot lottery. (Also read: Shaking Shah Rukh Khan's hand at Ambani wedding in Mumbai was emotional: ‘Awestruck’ John Cena recalls meeting ) In this exclusive interview with Hindustan Times, Paul Feig sat down to talk about making Jackpot, how his love for Jackie Chan movies inspired him to make the action-comedy, and what change he wants to see in the near future.
You've said in an interview that with Jackpot you finally got to make a Jackie Chan movie. Tell me a little bit about your love for those movies and what inspired you the most about them I mean, I love Jackie Chan 's style of physical comedy. He is always great as a loveable kind of innocent character who gets caught in really bad situations and he doesn't want to be there.
Its fun to watch him get out of it with whatever skills he has or with whatever is available to him. Whether it's a ladder or a bottle! I find it really fun! So, I have always wanted to do that with one of my movies and got to play that idea little bit in my movie Spy..
. but I always felt there was a way to get much more action in a way that he has got so many action scenes in his movies. I love the Polic.