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Stalled Jet: Martial arts icon Li wants to act with more than his fists.
Byline: Mike Antonucci
SAN FRANCISCO _ Jet Li duels constantly with image and reality.
He alternately spars with one and grabs for the other, sometimes needing to recharge his super-slick martial arts mystique, sometimes trying to toss it aside.
It makes for a simultaneously flourishing and frustrating career. Jet Li the action icon is internationally cool; Jet Li with a real-world idea and nobody to smack is almost a nonentity.
Li wanted to create a comedic film, including only a tiny portion of fighting, with screenwriter Robert Mark Kayman about a Tibetan monk in New York. But the project has gone nowhere, Li says, because Hollywood is ``afraid'' to cast him in anything that won't have kids imitating his kung-fu choreography.
At 40, Li is not resigned to that professional fate, ...
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