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• Seasickness helped Roselyn Sanchez feign a lack of enthusiasm for Chris Tucker's advances in the yacht sequence.
  
  
• The part of the "Red Dragon" hotel was played by the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada. The sign was changed to read "Red Dragon" and the lower half of the building was painted red for the filming of the movie. The hotel was closed at the time so evidence of the transformation remained for a while. The Desert Inn was demolished on 23 October 2001.
  
  
• The mural on the wall of the Heaven on Earth Massage Parlor was copied from one in Scarface (1983), which Harris Yulin and Brett Ratner appeared in.
  
  
• The girl-picking scene came from Enter the Dragon (1973), which Jackie Chan appeared in.
  
  
• The movie premiered on 26 July 2001 on a single Los Angeles to Hong Kong flight by United Airlines and the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
  
  
• The character Hu Li (Ziyi Zhang) was originally written for a man.
  
  
• Hu Li, in mandarin, means Fox.
  
  
• Philip Baker Hall filmed a scene reprising his role of Captain Diel from the first Rush Hour but it did not make the final cut.
  
  
• Chris Tucker ad-libbed many different versions of his short speech to Hu Li at the end of their fight. Brett Ratner felt the speech was not working and told Tucker to call her a "bitch". Tucker refused to say the word and it took hours of convincing by Ratner before Tucker finally agreed.
  
  
• Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman had a brief cameo in one scene but it did not make the final cut.
  
  
• The fake cash used in the movie said "In Dog We Trust". Even so, some of it "escaped" from the set and eventually ended up in a few casinos in Las Vegas.
  
  
• Jackie Chan's favorite number is 32. The gangster's car has a license plate of 32 and when Lee spits the grenade onto the roulette table it lands on 32 when it explodes.
  
  
• Don Cheadle, Saul Rubinek and Jeremy Piven from Brett Ratner's previous movie The Family Man (2000) all make cameo appearances.
  
  
• During the boat party that Ricky Tan holds, the song "Tian Mi Mi" can be heard playing in the background. The same song was used in Year of the Dragon (1985), which also co-starred John Lone.
  
  
• The climax takes place in the Red Dragon Hotel. Red Dragon (2002) is Brett Ratner's next film.
  
  
• During the filming of the stunt where Lee and Carter jump from the top window of the Red Dragon hotel then slide down the wires of Chinese Lanterns, a real (i.e. not part of the movie) car chase took place on/through the set. Apparently, a carload of drunken tourists (the set was in Las Vegas) got into an altercation with a taxi driver, and the two cars began a chase that ran down the strip and onto the set, narrowly missing crew members, extras and an enormous crane which held a camera and crew. Fortunately no one was injured; the driver and passengers of the taxi were detained by police.
  
  
• The scene where Carter gets the kosher meal was originally scripted to have Carter ask if Lee "want some of my gefilte fish?" after the stewardess left. But Chris Tucker couldn't pronounce "gefilte", so the scene never made the final cut (outtakes of this scene are in the end credits).
  
  
• The scene where Carter and Lee are running down the street naked in Hong Kong was an actual take; production could not block the street off for the shoot.
  
  
• At the airport there is a guy waiting for a passenger named 'Freitag', named after the film's producer, James M. Freitag.
  
  
• The scene where Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker run around naked in the streets was inspired by a scene in Dak miu mai shing (2001) which Chan made before this movie. Brett Ratner saw the film and decided to include a similar scene in Rush Hour 2 (2001).
  
  
• Don Cheadle agreed to do this movie only if he got to fight Jackie Chan and speak Chinese.
  
  
• When Chris Tucker is saying that Asians always panic and points out Godzilla films as a reference, he shouts "Hayaku! Hayaku!" This is actually Japanese, and it means "Faster! Faster!"
  
  
• Ziyi Zhang could not speak English, so she had to take direction via the combination of an interpreter and the director essentially performing "charades". Her character only says three English words in the movie: "Some apple?" and, later, "Out!"
  
  
• In an interview, Brett Ratner admitted that the first part of the karaoke scene with Chris Tucker wasn't supposed to be filmed. Tucker refused to act like Michael Jackson with the cameras running. During takes, he went up as entertainment for everyone. Secretly, Ratner told the cameramen to film it but to not let Tucker notice them.
  
  
• On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Chris Tucker said that while he was filming this movie in Hong Kong, many locals mistook him for NBA star Kobe Bryant. In the film, while Tucker's character is running up the stairs, the old woman shouts "Move out of the way, Kobe" to him.
  
  
• In an interview, Roselyn Sanchez said that Ziyi Zhang tried learning English from her, but tried to discourage her as she would have ended up speaking it with a Hispanic accent.
  
  
• There is a guy waiting for a passenger named "Freitag" on the airport, named after the film's producer, James M. Freitag. "Freitag" means "Friday" in German.
  
  
• Ziyi Zhang couldn't speak English, so sometimes the director would tell her what to do and Jackie Chan would translate his directions for her.
  
  

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