Wu Jing thanks Donnie Yen for past negative remarks
16 Aug - Wu Jing recently laughed when asked to express his thoughts about a statement fellow martial arts actor Donnie Yen allegedly made about him in the past.
As reported on Tencent, a few years ago when Donnie and Wu Jing starred in the Wilson Yip movie, "SPL", the former made a statement about martial artists working in the film industry, saying, "There are a lot of martial arts champions out there. But not everybody can be a martial arts star."
At the time, many believed that Donnie was directing his comment towards his co-star Wu Jing, who was part of the Beijing Wushu Team that competed in several national wushu competitions - just like his predecessor, Jet Li.
But when asked about it at the time, Wu stated that being a martial arts champion is a kind of recognition that he has made contributions to his country.
"There are martial arts champions who became international stars, like Jet Li, and some who is not a martial art champion but became famous as well, like Sammo Hung," he said.
Wu added that Donnie should express his dissatisfaction in private and instead be more supportive of his fellow actors of the same genre.
Now that his directorial effort, "Wolf Warrior 2" making more than USD 600 million at the box office, Wu was asked again about Donnie's past statement, to which he responded with a laugh, "I should instead thank him for the put-down."
