Jason Statham: From a street vendor to an A-list Hollywood action star

Popular with the audience through the beautiful action scenes in blockbuster action movies, Jason Statham is currently an expensive star in the Hollywood movie capital.

Jason Statham is famous for action movies such as: British Gang, Eccentric, Killer Mechanic, Mercenary Squad 2, Too Fast and Dangerous 7 and especially the Transporter series. But few people know that Jason Statham has a very difficult past, which has contributed to the nickname "rich man addicted to slippers" in the world.

The street vendor is predestined with art

Jason Statham was born on July 26, 1967 in the mountains of Derbyshire, England, in the family, the father is an amateur singer and street vendor and the mother is a bar dancer. Many people think that Jason must have been trained and nurtured his talents from a young age. But the fact is that from an early age, he followed his father and brother to perform in a family band to earn a living. When he grew up, he planned to follow this profession, but Jason's father oriented him to become a street vendor to have a more stable income.

In parallel with the sale, Jason Statham is also a member of the British Olympic diving team. He competed in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and is the 12th ranked diver in the world. The artistic opportunity came to him very naturally. During a training session, Sports Promotions invited Jason Statham to model for fashion brand French Connection. From here, the real life-changing opportunity came to Statham when he was noticed by director Guy Ritchie.

Thanks to many tricks on the street by selling goods to passersby, Jason Statham easily won the heart of director Ritchie, dignified to get his first role without any training. . In the movie "British Gang", Statham plays Bacon - a street scam expert. The film quickly became a success both artistically and commercially with its thrilling content and unique comedy style.

Two years later, Statham continued to participate in another project of Ritchie, The Jewelry Thief (Snatch). The role of a Turkish guy who specializes in organizing boxing matches helped Statham really enter Hollywood.

Change your life with the Carrier

Statham's acting talent only really shined with the role of Frank Martin in The Transporter 2002, written and produced by French filmmaker - Luc Besson.

The carrier was the breakthrough in Jason Statham's career. With a budget of $21 million, the film grossed $43 million, although it was not well received by critics. Statham's extremely "cool" appearance and fighting and shooting scenes helped the actor attract a large fan base. For the audience of the 8X - 9X generation in Vietnam, the image of a cold driver in an elegant suit will forever be an unforgettable character.

The role of Frank Martin is an important milestone for Statham as this is his first solo lead role. And The Transporter is a work that introduces Hollywood to an action superstar from the land of fog. In addition to the angular face, eyes and voice exuding coldness, Jason Statham also performed all the action scenes in the movie without the help of a stuntman.

The carrier also had two more installments in 2005 and 2008 and totaled nearly $200 million. From then on, the action movie scripts were continuously sent to Jason Statham. But the role of hero or "anti-hero" was performed very well by him.

The role of Jonas Taylor in "Super Tyrant Shark"

In August 2018, Jason Statham tried again with the image of a professional diver in the blockbuster movie Super Tyrant Shark (The Meg). Not confronting gangsters or dangerous criminals, but his opponent this time is the fierce giant shark Megaladon - a sea monster that seems to have gone extinct more than 2 million years ago. This return of Jason Statham will make the audience "stand still".

Thanks to his "side job" as a professional diver at a young age, out of all the action superstars in Hollywood, Jason Statham is the right actor to play the opponent of the super shark Megaladon.

To be able to convey the horror of the ocean killer, Jason Statham came to learn from a diver who struggled with a bull shark and lost an arm and a leg but survived. . After that, the actor flew to the waters of Fiji to experience the feeling of swimming with real sharks.

Although in Super Tyrant Shark, Jason Statham did not actually swim with Megaladon, but thanks to the experience of swimming with real sharks, the emotions that Jason Statham expressed reached the maximum realism.

The rich are addicted to Hollywood slippers

Jason Statham's movie fortune at the age of 53 is quite respectable with a series of cult blockbusters. From a salary of nearly 150 million VND for his first film, Jason Statham has stepped up to stardom and was paid more than 17 billion VND in the movie The Transporter.

His wealth is enormous, but his "simple nature" remains unchanged. Fans discovered that when going down the street, slippers are his "undivided" accessory. This hobby also made him meet with mixed opinions, when he first appeared at the Shanghai International Film Festival, to promote the movie Super Tyrant Shark (The Meg), Jason Statham caused "stun" when wearing a vest. and go... slippers.

People With Money magazine voted Jason as one of the highest-paid actors in the world thanks to his salary in movies, advertising, real estate investment, ownership of a fast-food restaurant chain, a club football, his own brand of wine... Perhaps because of his popular background, Jason Statham did not have the pleasures of spending money or playing as lavishly as his other Hollywood colleagues.

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