![]() ![]() I said ‘To hell with it.’” Instead he decided to become the Ray Kroc of kung fu, franchising dojos along the West Coast. “And when it is required, it is always the typical houseboy or pigtailed coolie stuff. “How many times in a film is a Chinese required?” Lee later explained to Esquire. for college, Lee took a look at the type of roles Asians were offered and abandoned any acting aspirations. By the time he was 18, he had made nearly 20 Cantonese films - none of which were kung fu flicks. His acting career began in earnest at the age of 6 after his family returned to their native Hong Kong. His father, a famous Cantonese opera singer, and his mother, a seamstress and wardrobe woman, were touring America when Bruce was born in 1940 he faced his first movie camera before he was old enough to crawl. This story originally ran in 2018 and has been republished to coincide with Mike Moh’s portayal of Bruce Lee in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.īruce Lee came from an entertainment family.
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