Jackie Chan was awarded with an honorary medal by the Paris mayor for his film career
It would have been an immense pleasure just to shake your hand," said Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and called him a "master of humor, of the burlesque and of self-deprecation."
"This mayor knows everything about me!" Chan joked.
A few days ago, Jackie Chan was offended by the vote of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences against a proposal to add an Oscar category for stunt people and jumped off a building in Hong Kong.
"He realized that any chance of ever getting nominated for an Oscar had just totally collapsed," says Chan's publicist. "We tried to convince him that he still could get nominated for his acting, and he just laughed at us."