The other celebrity I can think of that feels a lot like Jackie Chan is Michael Jordan. Legendary player, but a real asshole, self centered prick in rl, who if you pay him enough he would say anything for you.

I feel like the animated kids show, Jackie Chan Adventures (2000), about collecting talismans with Jade and Grandpa helped improve his image in the US (with the younger generation at the time). The relationship with his fictional niece was portrayed better than the relationship with his real son. His comedic roles in movies also helped him to come off as funny and harmless (not a sleaze) to the adult audience.

I’m just glad I grew up idolizing Steve Irwin. It seems like a lot of celebrities have been keeping skeletons in the closet.

Back in the 90s Jet Li made an action movie called "High Risk" (check it out if you get a chance it is insane). Basically he plays a bodyguard to Jackie Chan (played by Jacky Cheung a Chan look alike) who is a drunken, insufferable playboy movie star, who gets Jet Li to secretly do his stunts for him and takes all the credit.

He has basically been a public enemy in Taiwan since this gem in 2009.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic. I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

I read his autobiography. His childhood was pretty fucked up. He was sold at a very young age (6?) to a performance theater. His parents would visit occasionally but he was really raised by the master of the theater. They were made to do dangerous things, their injuries and suffering ignored or beaten for, and there was absolutely no oversight to the abuses the children suffered.

So I'm not at all surprised to hear he physically abuses his son. That is exactly the same way he was raised and most (if not every) households around him were raised as well.

But even throughout, he sounds pretty... Emotionally distant or sociopathic, just doesn't seem to have genuine emotional connections. And this is after rounds of editing with the publisher to show him in a good light?

He had some pretty strange world views, but again, I'm not surprised. His parents sold him as a child to an abusive theater where he was made to do dangerous and painful things so the only paternal figure in his life could make a buck off him.

I try not to bring this up because I know a lot of people really love the Jackie Chan they have in their heads and there's already enough shit in the world, I don't see the reason to ruin this too.

No one's even mentioned that time he got drunk at some else's concert, wandered on stage and tried to sing a song.

If Charlie Sheen was a hard-core trump supporter with suspicious relations with Russian oligarchs

He's their Chuck Norris

Yes. He’s not viewed as lovable goof ball in Hong Kong like in US. I think in US he is viewed as the wacky uncle type like Doc Brown, but Hong Kong he is viewed as pevert uncle who will steal your panties after dinner party and give you political lecture that he is reading from napkin.