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May 7, 2003 — (Another great translation by Rachel!) (EFE) - British comedian Steve Coogan, whom he acts as Phileas Fogg in the new overproduction of "Around the World in Eighty Days", thinks that Jackie Chan, he's Passepartout the butler in the film, is "intelligent like Buster Keaton". They are both in Berlin right now to film part of the new adaptation of one of the classics Jules Verne, Frank Coraci directs it and has already taken the filming equipment to more exotic scenes like Thailand. The neoclassic buildings of the Gendarmenmarkt, the plaza that all the tour guides describe as the prettiest of Berlin, today is surrounded by horse vehicles and dresses of historical times are circumstance that attracted the attention of a cloud of curious. A similar scene will be repeated foreseeably in the Prussian castle of Charlottenburg, in the west of the city, another one of the scenes where Berliners who have parts in the film will be filmed. While Jackie Chan participated in the filming of a scene, Coogan and the main actress, Cecile de France, along with several of the producers and members of the technical equipment offered a press conference in which they commented on his work. After assuring that the film is very faithful to original the literary one, the producer Bill Badalato had certain difficulties at the time of explaining why the personage of Cecile de France is a French artist and not a princess India, like in the novel. The producer assured that that change does not betray the spirit of the history, something interesting in which the majority agreed, the character of De France, commented that her personage is "very intelligent, a French vanguard painter who accompanies Phileas, a very well organized scientist, hard, whom loves to learn everything". Coogan fervently praised Chan and said that he is "a very generous actor, very intelligent and very active, unlike other stars of Hollywood that are limited to fit themselves to their role". In contrast to Chan, the Briton considered to itself "a homemade" actor who never will arrive at Hollywood.