![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “That experience has changed my life,” reflects the actor during an expansive chat about the film and his career ahead of the film’s 30th anniversary and the start of AAPI Heritage Month. Three decades later, Lee still feels transformed by the act of embodying Bruce Lee on the big screen. And it was in the training that I felt that… there was a definite transformation.” That’s what he said I’d want to get across, that he’s not going to give up. “Jerry used to tell me that what a lot of people didn’t know about Bruce is that he spent a lot of time in bed, because he’d push himself too hard and injure himself - he was constantly laid up. And he credits all of them with helping him through the breakdown that could have derailed his big break as an Asian American leading man in Hollywood. More importantly, Lee had the love and support of the Fist of Fury star’s surviving friends - like former Bruce Lee student turned martial arts instructor, Jerry Poteet - and family members, including wife Linda Lee Cadwell and their children Shannon and Brandon Lee. ![]()
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