People have been looking forward to Jackie Chan's latest movie, Dragon Blade. The film, which was reportedly seven years in the making is based on a true story and is currently one of the most expensive Chinese movies with a budget of US$65 million.The film will not be shown until two weeks later but Jackie is already revealing how emotional he was during filming.

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In the film, Jackie plays the role of Huo An, a Silk Road "peacekeeper", who aims to maintain peace and harmony between 36 countries along with his troops. Just like his character, Jackie shared that he feels that it is his "duty" to encourage peace and hopes that the movie will have a positive impact to war-torn countries.

Jackie attributed his change in mentality to his age and even revealed that it is easier for him to shed tears these days when they are filming.

"Once you think of the situation and having experienced so much in recent years, especially [when I think of] my parents' past (Jackie's parents have passed away)... When the director plays the music, you feel like you're in the midst of the warzone," he said.

"I got really emotional in one scene where John's character said: 'Take me home!' At that moment, after I turned around, I started crying uncontrollably and the director had to tell me to get a grip on myself. It was really hard to suppress it!" he added laughing.

"I find it harder to cry in the past but I'm easily moved to tears now. If you tell me a touching story now, I'd cry easily. I think it's because people tend to get more emotional with age... "

As for the film's production, John said, "When I came on the set of this movie, the design, the set, was as good as everything Hollywood has ever done. This is very competitive to anything Hollywood puts out." And on being able to work with Jackie, John shared, "For me to able to get to this stage and work with Jackie, it's like I've worked my whole life to get here."

The movie has an all-star international cast lineup including Hollywood actors John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Korean actor and singer Choi Siwon and Chinese actors Jackie, Mika Wang and Lin Peng. Dragon Blade will be shown on theatres in China on February 19, 2015. 

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