Honk Kong - Kung fu actor and director Jackie Chan has said that working with babies in his new action comedy Rob-B-Hood was a frustrating experience.
"I saw babies every day, how noisy they were. If one cried, then one, two, three, four, they would all cry," Chan said at a press conference for the Chinese-language movie in Beijing.
A transcript of the press conference was posted on the Chinese news website Sina.com.
Chan, who appeared at the news conference with a baby girl who is in the movie, said baby moods were unpredictable.
"It's hardest to get a girl to smile. She just doesn't smile. She looks at the people manning the cameras like they're idiots. She would smile right after we run out of film," Chan said of the baby girl.
"Once she sees the set she cries," he said.
Rob-B-Hood is reportedly about gangsters who kidnap a baby.
Chan said Rob-B-Hood is the latest in a recent trio of films in which he tackles genres unconventional to him - in this case a "very happy, very heartwarming" film.
The other two are New Police Story, in which Chan plays a tragic hero, and The Myth, an epic that tracks the journey of a man who seeks his lost love from a previous life.
"I've been telling myself these past few years I need to change," he said.
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