The action star discusses his latest role in "Parker" and meeting co-star Jennifer Lopez.
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00:00Jason Statham, we welcome you to Good Morning America. Thanks for having me on. Big day here and and you included in that big movie star
00:08Dustin Hoffman's a big movie star. No
00:13You should know
00:14Jennifer Lopez told us yesterday
00:16You are the best of the best in the world of action films right now after working with you in this new picture Parker
00:22Well, that's very complimentary. She said that you were just fantastic to work with and and the movie is
00:28It's intense you play Parker he's a thief, but he's got a conscience. How is that for you?
00:34Yeah, he's a thief with the conscious. I mean the good part about this. It comes from a great line of
00:39Books written by Donald Westlake. So this is a character that's been played before by Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson
00:45So he's uh, you know, he's very meticulously written
00:49And you know, he's got he's got a really sort of admirable side to him
00:53And how was it working with the wonderful beautiful Jennifer Lopez?
00:57It's a fantastic day to go to work with her. Yeah. Yeah, it was they call it many many days of it
01:02Yeah, you really did all of your own stunts because there are some that just looked impossible
01:07It's just been one of those things that I've been doing for years now
01:10I did a movie way way back with a French director called Luke Besson and
01:15From that day forth. I sort of dug a big hole for myself and I was doing all my stunts because we didn't have any
01:20The resources weren't there to kind of to do things on a green screen or with special effects
01:26So I ended up doing everything in camera
01:28Yeah
01:28And from that day on I just ended up doing my own stunts and it's been that way ever since you're really really good at
01:33It and we're wondering if this might be one of the reasons why we uncovered some photos of you
01:38And it turns out that you and I have something in common
01:42There he is, there's Jason
01:45You were on the national team great
01:48Same time I was a diver
01:50Thank You Sabrina. She's got a picture of my technique is not nearly as good as yours
01:57But do you think that that sort of fearlessness that you have to have as a diver when you're flinging yourself off of that 10-meter
02:03platform helps in movies I
02:06think there's a lot of
02:08You know help that I've gathered from you know
02:10Some of the skills you learn, you know
02:11The trampoline and then the gymnastics and you know having that
02:14The lack of fear from throwing yourself around from it, you know from a great height because let me tell you when you watch this
02:20Movie when you're hanging off of that building in Palm Beach, right that I saw a diver there
02:27You know that a lot of the skills that you can you can just bring them to the stump world
02:30You know, it's not specific to any sort of a drama or any acting that you can do
02:34But for some of the stunts that you know, the aerial awareness can really sort of help you help you out a lot
02:40Yeah, Jason Statham everybody. Please check him out in Parker. It opens this Friday in theaters nationwide. Thank you for being with us
02:46Great to see you