Shannon Lee spoke out against the portrayal of her late father upon Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood's release, saying she was “uncomfortable” Bruce Lee was depicted as nothing more than a “caricature.”
“I understand they want to make the Brad Pitt character this super badass who could beat up Bruce Lee,” Shannon says. “But they didn’t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive.”
She also called out the scene’s factuality, noting that her father frequently avoided getting into fights with those who challenged him. Nonetheless, Shannon, who is chief executive of the Bruce Lee Family Company,“I’ve met Mike and I know that he loves my father and he’s a working actor, and I really hold no negativity toward him whatsoever,” she told the
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