JET LI ATTEMPTS TO HALT TEEN SUICIDES WITH NEW FILM

Last updated: Saturday, September 23, 2006

JET LI ATTEMPTS TO HALT TEEN SUICIDES WITH NEW FILM

Action man JET LI signed up to play famous Chinese martial arts hero HUO YUANJIA (corr) in new movie FEARLESS because he felt the legend's story could help save teenage lives.

Jet Li stars as HUO YUANJIA in 'FEARLESS'

Yuanjia, who became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century, overcame a series of personal tragedies to reach the heights of the martial arts world.

And Li hopes his lifestory in Fearless will help to convince youngsters contemplating suicide that life is worth living.

He says, "There were a quarter of a million suicides in theworld in 2004, so I wanted to make a movie to tell that everyone has a hard time.

"A lot of Chinese teenagers are committing suicide and getting into trouble. The news always talk about sports stars that have a car, a beautiful girl, diamonds everything and the kids don't have that and feel unlucky so they kill themselves.

"I always try very hard to show them both sides."

Source: WENN

| Saturday, September 23, 2006

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