[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”27482″ img_size=”618×410″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Quentin Tarantino’s last film Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is doing very well at the box office. With an ensemble cast, it’s hard to pick who exactly gave the best performance of the film.
However, Bruce Lee’s real-life daughter Shannon Lee was not a fan of how her father was chosen to be portrayed in the film. While any movie that features real-life actors are a dramatization of reality, Lee felt that the movie shed a negative light on a man [her father] who was not at all like how actor Mike Moh played him.
Spoilers for the Movie
In the movie, Brad Pitt’s character is Cliff Booth and he takes a moment to trade arrogant jabs with Moh’s Bruce Lee. The two then have a best-two-out-of-three sparring match while on the set of The Green Hornet show. Shannon Lee described watching this scene as “disheartening”:
“I can understand all the reasoning behind what is portrayed in the movie,” she said. “I understand that the two characters are antiheroes and this is sort of like a rage fantasy of what would happen… and they’re portraying a period of time that clearly had a lot of racism and exclusion.”
She added:
“I understand they want to make the Brad Pitt character this super bad-ass who could beat up Bruce Lee. But they didn’t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive. He comes across as an arrogant asshole who was full of hot air. And not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to so many others.”
For the full interview, visit The Wrap. What did you think of Moh’s portrayal of the legendary Bruce Lee?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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