To continue reading:
or
Log-In
Jet-ting to Paris? Oui!
Subscriber content preview.
or
Log-In
He was a star of the people's republic wushu team at 11, a star of the mainland hit The Shaolin Temple at 16. At 25 Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong, got the name Jet Li and brought a ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has...