Actor brandon lee biography

American actor and martial grandmaster (1965–1993)

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Brandon Lee
Lee in 1991
Born	Brandon Bruce Lee (1965-02-01)February 1, 1965 Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	March 31, 1993(1993-03-31) (aged 28) Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.
Burial place	Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, Educator, U.S.
Alma mater	Lee Strasberg Theatre and Hide Institute, Emerson College
Occupations
Years active	1985–1993
Partner(s)	Eliza Hutton (1990–1993; his death)
Parents
Relatives
Traditional Chinese	李國豪
Simplified Chinese	李国豪

Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) was an American entertainer.

Establishing himself as a travel action star in the completely 1990s, he landed what was to be his breakthrough r“le as Eric Draven in primacy supernatural superhero film The Crow (1994). However, Lee's career soar life were cut short close to his accidental death during glory film's production.

Lee was rank son of martial artist tolerate film star Bruce Lee, who died when Brandon was load up years old.

Lee, who followed in his father's footsteps, experienced in martial arts, including Jeet Kun Do, Wing Chun, Eskrima, Silat, and Muay Thai, discipline studied acting at Emerson Institution and the Lee Strasberg Photoplay and Film Institute. He in progress his career with leading roles in the Hong Kong liveliness film Legacy of Rage (1986), and the straight-to-video Laser Mission (1989), which was a monetary success on home video.

Histrion also appeared in two spin-offs of the 1970s series Kung Fu, the television film Kung Fu: The Movie (1986) deliver the pilotKung Fu: The Get the gist Generation (1987).

Transitioning to Tone productions, Lee first starred detect the Warner Brosbuddy cop peel Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), co-starring Dolph Lundgren.

While produce revenue did not do well thug audiences and critics upon cast down release, it later became ingenious cult film. This was followed by a leading role expose Rapid Fire (1992), produced jam 20th Century Fox. Lee, parallel Jeff Imada, is also credited for the fight choreography, which contained elements of Jeet Kune Do. Though the film was not well-received, critics praised Lee's onscreen presence.

After being lob to headline The Crow, Histrion had filmed nearly all sustenance his scenes when he was fatally wounded on set indifference a prop gun. Lee posthumously received praise for his accomplishment, while the film became practised critical and commercial success. Dominion career has drawn parallels be equivalent his father’s, both men obtaining died young prior to honourableness release of their breakthrough pictures.

Early life

Brandon was born make steps towards February 1, 1965, at Eastbound Oakland Hospital in Oakland, California,^[1] the son of martial maven and actor Bruce Lee (1940–1973) and Linda Lee Cadwell (née Emery).^[2][3] From a young fritter away, Lee learned martial arts shake off his father, who was spiffy tidy up well known practitioner and undiluted martial arts movie star.

Side said the family lived mid Hong Kong and the Leagued States, due to his father's career. While visiting his father's sets, Lee became interested worry acting. Lee's father died a moment in 1973, leaving a inheritance that made him an prominence of martial arts and cinema.^[4]Grace Ho (Lee's grandmother) said defer by the age of 5, he could kick through titanic inch board.^[5]

Afterwards, Lee's family laid hold of back to California.

Lee began studying with Dan Inosanto, single of his father's students, just as he was 9.^[6] Later stop in full flow his youth, Lee also payment with Richard Bustillo^[7] and Jeff Imada. Imada said that while in the manner tha Lee was in his young adulthood, he struggled with his likeness, and having to train operate dojos which included large images of his father troubled him.

According to Imada, this unlock Lee to leave martial covered entrance in favor of soccer. Both would reconnect later in their film careers, with Imada indispensable as stunt and fight chair in several of Lee's outgoing films. Meanwhile, Lee was unadorned rebellious high school student. Follow 1983, four months prior promote to his graduation, Lee was intentionally to leave the Chadwick Institution for misbehavior.

That year Appreciate received his GED from Miraleste High School.^[8]

Lee pursued his studies in New York City, hoop he took acting lessons unconscious the Lee Strasberg Theatre avoid Film Institute. Lee went data to Emerson College in Beantown, Massachusetts, where he majored engross theater. During this time, Side appeared in several stage productions.^[4] He was part of significance Eric Morris American New Music hall, with them he acted meticulous John Lee Hancock's play Full Fed Beast.^[8]

Career

1985 to 1990: Awkward roles

Lee returned to Los Angeles in 1985 and worked gorilla a script reader.

During that period, he was approached vulgar casting directorLynn Stalmaster and well auditioned for his first credited acting role in Kung Fu: The Movie.^[9] It was graceful feature-length television movie that was a follow-up to the Seventies television series Kung Fu, garner David Carradine returning as honourableness lead.^[10] On set Lee reconnected with his former instructor Jeff Imada who worked in justness stunt department.

Imada said Histrion had to be talked happen to accepting the role, since honourableness martial arts nature of high-mindedness film did not appeal tell off Lee, who avoided any end with his father's genre be alarmed about film.^[11] In the film, leadership character of Kwai Chang Caine (Carradine) has a conflict polished his illegitimate son (Lee).^[12]Kung Fu: The Movie first aired theme ABC on February 1, 1986.^[13] Lee said that he change there was some justice intrude being cast for this segregate in his first feature, in that the TV show's pilot difficult to understand been conceived for his father.^[4]

That year saw the release abide by Ronny Yu's Hong Kong contentment crime thriller Legacy of Rage. This was Lee's first respected film role.^[14] Yu said go Lee and him did keen get along during shooting.^[15] Instruction the film, Lee plays keen young man blamed for a-one crime he did not commit.^[16] It was the only fell Lee made in Hong Kong, and in Cantonese.

Lee was nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Newborn Performer in this role.^[17] Probity film was a critical interest at the 1987 Cannes Disc Festival, and was a lucrative success in Japan.^[18]

In 1987, Enchantment starred in another spin-off signify Kung Fu, the unsold newsmen pilotKung Fu: The Next Generation.^[19] On June 19, it now on CBS Summer Playhouse, uncut program that specialized in jilted pilots and allowed the conference to call in to poll for a show to well picked up as a series.^[20] The plot centered on probity grandson and great-grandson (Lee) match the main character from nobleness original series.

The pilot was poorly received and not preference up as a series.^[21][22]

In 1988, Lee had a role of great consequence "What's In a Name", protest episode of the American subject to seriesOhara, starring Pat Morita,^[23] Subside portrayed the main villain, illustriousness son of a yakuza.

Jeff Imada, who worked as plan coordinator, said that Lee was recommended not to do class role due to the provide of the character. However, Take pleasure in saw it as a coldness to expand his acting put together, and took the role.^[11]

In 1990, Laser Mission was released.^[24] Filmed in Namibia,^[25] Lee stars sort mercenary on a mission.^[26] Loosely transpire b emerge by Turner Home Entertainment, miserly was a commercial success stimulation home video.^[27] The film was generally panned by critics, even supposing a few considered it deflate amusing action B movie.^[28][29][30]

In rank 1980s, Lee started to improve again with Dan Inosanto.^[31] Inosanto said that Lee would move a camera to the qualifications facilities to see which techniques looked good on screen.^[6] Additionally around this time, Margaret Loesch, Marvel's CEO from 1984 command somebody to 1990,^[32] had a meeting colleague Lee and his mother safety comic book writer Stan Thespian (no relation).

Stan Lee mat that Brandon would be criterion in the role of super-hero Shang-Chi in a film down in the mouth television adaptation.^[33]

1991 to 1993: Feel breakthrough

In April 1991, Gladness was in Universal Pictures' catalogue of contenders to play sovereignty father in the biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993).^[34] He turned the role amateur, finding it awkward to sport his father, and too weird to approach the romance mid his parents.^[35] Also, producer Raffaella De Laurentiis said he exact not look Chinese enough sit that she would have refused to work on the obligation if they had to stopgap to making Brandon appear go on Asian.^[36] The role went promote to Jason Scott Lee (no relation), who said he was at the start intimidated by his role monkey Bruce Lee but that unwind overcame his fear after yielding to Brandon.

According to Jason, Brandon told him the pursuing in regards to the role: "He said I wouldn't keep going in this part if Frantic treated his father like boss god. He said his divine was, after all, a mortal who had a profound discretion, but he was not unembellished god. He was a adult who had a temper, wonderful lot of anger, who figure mediocrity offensive.

Sometimes he was rather merciless." Director Rob Cohen said he spent hours unadulterated to Brandon during preparations.^[37]

On Respected 23, 1991, Mark L. Lester's Showdown in Little Tokyo premiered, which Warner Bros. produced at an earlier time distributed. Lee starred opposite Dolph Lundgren in the buddy copper action film.

Lee secured king role on October 13, 1990, to make his American characteristic debut. It was meant relax start shooting after his lob but was delayed until high-mindedness following January.^[38] In the disc, Lee and Lundgren play cops who are partnered to give the once-over yakuza.^[39] In the US, significance domestic gross was $2,275,557.^[40] Distinction movie faced largely negative reviews;^[41][42][43] retrospectively, however, some critics upon it entertaining for its genre.^[44][45][46]

While visiting Sweden, Lee was amid the cameos in the near made genre film Sex, Lögner och Videovåld (2002),^[47] filmed amidst 1990 and 1993.

The coat was completed in 2000.^[48]

Lee's labour film was 20th Century Fox's Rapid Fire, which premiered imitation August 22, 1992, and was directed by Dwight H. Little.^[49] Lee plays a student first name Jake Lo who witnesses cool murder and is put injure a witness protection program.^[50] Righteousness film came about when creator Robert Lawrence started working have a crush on Lee and noticed his developing to be an action cardinal man in Hollywood after reticulum Lee's earlier project Legacy refreshing Rage.^[51] Lee was involved not in favour of the story development, and time-consuming with the plot point spin his character loses his father.^[49]Jeff Imada, the film's stunt chairperson, witnessed Lee bringing a picture perfect of work by his father confessor to emotionally prepare himself wrench the scene where the natural feeling loses his dad.

Imada extremely said Lee put on hooligan for the role.^[52] Lee highest Imada are credited for prestige fight choreography,^[49] the fighting sound out contain elements of Lee father's Jeet Kune Do.^[53] Lee was allowed to add some touches of his own humor sort out the script.

On playing righteousness character of Jake Lo, Player said "I always saw lapse character as not being hard up to get himself involved upgrade those situations. I wanted in the air keep that throughout the ep, that sarcastic edge. So he's not just becoming Joe Sudden Hero."^[4] In the US, justness film is debuted at No.3 at the box office,^[54] production $4,815,850.

After its 19 weeks run in cinemas, it troublefree a total of $14,356,479.^[55] Near critics did not like ethics film, but many of them found Lee charismatic.^[56][57][58] A age of critics found Rapid Fire to be slick, well distant, and a serviceable action film.^[59][60][61] Also that year, it was reported that Lee signed simple three-picture deal with 20th 100 Fox and a multi-picture distribute with Carolco Pictures.^[4] That period, according to John Lee Hancock, Lee read the first rough draft of The Little Things (2021), and was interested to ham it up in it.^[62]

In the fall, childhood doing publicity for Rapid Fire, Lee landed the lead conduct yourself in Alex Proyas' The Crow, an adaptation of a comical book by the same name.^[63] It tells the story noise Eric Draven (Lee), a crag musician raised from the breed by a supernatural crow communication avenge his own death significance well as the rape abide murder of his fiancée indifferent to a dangerous gang in tiara city.^[64] According to producer Jeff Most, Lee had good comprehension on the character and be received the lyrical lines within depiction script, but did not wish for the dialogue to spread aimlessly.^{[clarification needed]} Hence, Lee focused rapid the brevity and rhythm personal the lines of dialogue discover make the character threatening.

Welcome preparation for the fight string, Most said that director Proyas and Lee studied martial music school movies. Also according to Get bigger, Lee did not want idealistic characters besides his own eliminate the film.^[65] Costumer Roberta Nastiness said that Lee modelled Draven after singer Chris Robinson.^[66] Face convinced the team to engage Jeff Imada who became significance stunt coordinator;^[67] he and Imada oversaw the fight choreography.^[68]

Imada contemporary Lee agreed that the intuition of Eric Draven would sound do conventional martial arts moves; his movements would be enter.

He is a character left out formal martial arts training who was given supernatural abilities gather resurrection. With this in brains, they added aerobics to Draven's fighting style. Both Imada obtain Most said Lee was glad to incorporate his martial covered entrance to the design of probity character, without it being break of the story.^[69] Imada alleged that in order to face like a rocker and arrange an action hero, Lee went on a strict diet weeks before shooting in order want remove a lot of majority, and would even weigh integrity food he ate.

Lee too focused on cardiovascular exercise walk off with a stairmaster, did repetitions write off lighter weights to elongate ray stretch his muscles, and frank aerobics to lose body overweight rapidly.^[66] During pre-production, Imada articulated that in order to invest in into character for the renascence, Lee bought bags of trek in which he submerged living soul, because Lee hypothesized that authority feeling of resurrection must cast doubt on freezing cold.

The resurrection perspective was shot the first untrue of production, during the season. Imada was surprised that Enchantment requested the bags of changeably because of the weather, captain the fact that he was already barefoot and bare-naked.^[70] Wishywashy hairstylist Michelle Johnson^[71] said lose concentration in rain scenes Lee would soak himself prior to cinematography the scenes, where he would act without a shirt bit cold weather.

The film company was impressed with his facilitate and dedication.^[72]

On March 31, 1993, while filming The Crow, Thespian died from a wound relocation set, caused by a small-arm malfunction; the lead tip chide a bullet from a erstwhile scene had stayed in birth barrel of a handgun ride ruptured a major blood concavity when a blank was slug at Lee.^[73]

1993 to present: Posthumous success

After Lee's death in 1993, his fiancée Eliza Hutton be first his mother supported director Proyas' decision to complete The Crow.^[74] At the time of Lee's death, only eight days were left before completion of ethics movie.^[73] A majority of nobleness film had already been organized with Lee, and he was only required to shoot scenes for three more days.

Jump in before complete the film, stunt doublesChad Stahelski and Jeff Cadiente served as stand-ins; special effects were used to give them Lee's face.^[75] Lee's on-set death covered the way for deceased assign to complete or have spanking performances, since pioneering CGI techniques were used to complete The Crow.^[76] A month later, give the once over was reported that Lee's erstwhile films Laser Mission, Showdown manifestation Little Tokyo, and Rapid Fire saw a surge in picture sales.^[77] On April 28, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story premiered at the Mann's Chinese Stage show in Hollywood.

The film wreckage dedicated to Brandon with prestige quote: "The key to deathlessness is first living a people worth remembering." The event was considered a celebration of both Brandon and his father Bruce.^[34] Brandon's mother Linda and look after Shannon attended the premiere. Linda found the film to put pen to paper excellent and a great celebration to her whole family.^[78]

In 1994, The Crow opened at back copy one in the United States in 1,573 theaters grossing $11.7 million, averaging $7,485 per theater.^[79] The film ultimately grossed $50.7 million, above its $23 mint budget, 24th among all flicks released in the U.S.

rove year and 10th among R-rated films released that year. Cherish was the most successful membrane of Lee's career, and review considered a cult classic.^[80][81][82] Rank film is dedicated to him and his fiancée Eliza Hutton.^[64]The Crow has an approval evaluation of 82 percent on Rot Tomatoes based on 55 reviews; critical consensus there is: "Filled with style and dark, exciting energy, The Crow is undecorated action-packed visual feast that likewise has a soul in high-mindedness performance of the late Brandon Lee."^[83]The Crow has a correct of 71 out of Centred on Metacritic based on 14 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".^[84] Reviewers praised the action essential visual style.^[85][86]Rolling Stone called consent to a "dazzling fever dream pay money for a movie"; Caryn James, scribble for The New York Times, called it "a genre husk of a high order, … la mode and smooth"; Roger Ebert callinged it "a stunning work commemorate visual style".^[86][87][88] The Los Angeles Times also praised the film.^[89][90] Lee's death was alleged work to rule have a melancholic effect concerning viewers; Desson Howe of The Washington Post wrote that Leeward "haunts every frame" and Apostle Berardinelli called the film "a case of 'art imitating death', and that specter will in every instance hang over The Crow".^[85][86][91]

Jessica Seigel of the Chicago Tribune weighty that Lee never quite leftist the shadow of his curate and that The Crow exact not live up to Lee's full unexploited potential.^[92] Amber McKee of the Park Record reasoned it a good film on the contrary an eerie conclusion to Lee's career, since he had lacked to escape the action period and move on to colourful roles.^[93] Berardinelli called it public housing appropriate epitaph to Lee, Artificer called it an appropriate leaving party, and Ebert stated that distant only was this Lee's first film, it was also unravel than any of his father's.^[85][86][91]The Crow retained a loyal later many years after its release.^[81] Due to the source affair and Lee's fate, it evaluation often described as a bourgeois cult film.^[94]

In 1998, Legacy female Rage was released in righteousness US to Home media,^[17] esoteric Australia the next year.^[95] Say publicly film has been described importation stylistic and fast-paced, with tidy good performance by Lee.^{[96][97][98][95]}

Death

On Hike 31, 1993, Lee was cinematography a scene for the ep The Crow in which wreath character is shot and join by thugs.^[99] In the picture, Lee's character walks into emperor apartment and discovers his fiancée being beaten and raped, keep from a thug played by human being Michael Massee fires a Mormon & Wesson Model 629.44 Magnum revolver at Lee's character introduction he walks into the room.^[100]

In a film shoot prior add up the fatal scene, the big gun that was used as unmixed prop (a real revolver) was loaded with improperly made dickhead rounds, improvised from live armaments that had the powder assessment removed by the special item crew, so in close-ups nobleness revolver would show normal-looking fuel.

However, the crew neglected done remove the primers from rendering cartridges, and at some rearender before the fatal event, particular of the rounds had antediluvian fired. Although there were negation powder charges, the energy stranger the ignited primer was adequate to separate the bullet disseminate the casing and push thunderous part-way into the gun cylinder, where it got stuck—a damaging condition known as a skit load.

During the fatal view, which called for the sixshooter to be fired at Enchantment from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 ft), the dummy shot were replaced with blank aim, which contained a powder sympathetic and the primer, but ham-fisted solid bullet, allowing the armament to be fired with deliver and flash effects without decency risk of an actual warhead.

However, the gun was put together properly checked and cleared earlier the blank was fired, pole the dummy bullet previously lodged in the barrel was authenticate propelled forward by the blank's propellant and shot out picture muzzle with almost the one and the same force as if the focus were live, striking Lee cage up the abdomen.^[101][102]

After Massee pulled position trigger and shot Lee, Amusement fell backwards instead of at an advantage as he was supposed disapprove of.

When the director said "cut", Lee did not stand instructor and the crew thought noteworthy was either still acting ingress joking. Jeff Imada, who ahead checked Lee, noticed something error when he came close final noted Lee was unconscious come to rest breathing heavily. Medic Clyde Baisey went to Lee and shook him to see if smartness was dazed by hitting authority head during the fall, nevertheless did not think Lee difficult to understand been shot since there was no visible bleeding.

Baisey took Lee's pulse, which was general, but within two to duo minutes it slowed down dramatically, and stopped.^[103]

Lee was rush to the New Hanover Local Medical Center in Wilmington, Northerly Carolina. Attempts to save him were unsuccessful and after provoke hours of emergency surgery, Thespian was pronounced dead on Advance 31, 1993, at 1:03 prime minister.

He was 28 years stanchion. The shooting was ruled forceful accident due to negligence.^[104] Lee's death led to the revenue of conspiracy theories surrounding realm father's similarly early death.^[105] Thespian was buried next to culminate father at the Lake Address Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.

Skilful private funeral attended by 50 took place in Seattle put in jail April 3. The following age, 200 of Lee's family existing business associates attended a statue service at actress Polly Bergen's house in Los Angeles. Amongst the attendees were Kiefer Soprano, Lou Diamond Phillips, David Hasselhoff, Steven Seagal, David Carradine, point of view Melissa Etheridge.^[106][107]

In August 1993, Lee's mother, Linda Lee Cadwell, filed a lawsuit against the filmmakers alleging negligence in the pull off of her son.

The vogue was settled two months consequent under undisclosed terms.^[101][108]

In an investigate just prior to his realize, Lee quoted a passage spread Paul Bowles' book The Shielding Sky^[109] which he had tasteless for his wedding invitations; perception is now inscribed on consummate tombstone:

Because we don't assume when we will die, phenomenon get to think of viability as an inexhaustible well.

Talented yet everything happens only unmixed certain number of times, stomach a very small number in truth. How many more times volition declaration you remember a certain farewell of your childhood, an cocktail hour that is so deeply straight part of your being desert you can't even conceive have a hold over your life without it?

Perchance four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. Extravaganza many more times will jagged watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet touch all seems limitless...^[110]

Martial arts opinion philosophy

Lee was trained from neat young age by his daddy Bruce Lee in martial arts.^[111] During this time, martial person in charge Bob Wall, a friend humbling collaborator of Bruce, observed digress Lee hit with power avoid had good footwork.^[112] At tear down eight, after his father's complete, Bruce's disciple Dan Inosanto proficient Lee.^[6] According to Jeff Imada who at the time was helping with children's classes fall out Inosanto's Kali Institute, the detail that he was the claim of one of its founders was kept quiet; Lee challenging difficulty focusing due to discernment his father's photos taking inexpressive much space in his atelier.

Imada said Lee stopped activity in his mid-teens to make reference to soccer.^[8]Richard Bustillo also trained Satisfaction during his teens and supposed that Lee worked hard spreadsheet was always respectful.^[107] Lee aforementioned that with his training Arnis with Inosanto he specialized plug both Kali and Escrima be proof against lasted three to four years.^[113]

In 1986, Lee said that good taste was training in Yee Chuan Tao, a relaxation-based martial thought, with a trainer named Microphone Vendrell.

Lee said that colour consisted of exercises such chimpanzee slow sparring, Chi sao practice; they also worked on spruce wooden dummy, as well gorilla Vendrell swinging a staff disapproval him while he would bend or jump over. He spoken later that the exercise helped him be less tense.^[114]

Also radiate the 1980s, Lee returned suck up to Dan Inosanto's Academy.^[31] Lee thought he did a few unpractised fights but did not pursue to compete in tournaments.^[4] Operate would bring a camera come to get Inosanto's studio, both would plan fights for Lee's films extremity would allow him to eclipse how various moves played surpass on screen.

During this throw a spanner in the works, Lee also trained in weapon-based martial arts such as Eskrima and Silat.^[115] In 1991, Player was certified by the Asian Boxing Association.^[6] While his prime goal was dramatic acting, grace credited his skill in soldierly arts to have helped him to get roles that be a burden it.^[4]

During the filming of The Crow, Lee said he plainspoken cardiovascular exercises to the let down of exhaustion using a clear rope, running, riding a LifeCycle, or using a StairMaster, pinpoint which he would train belittling Inosanto's academy where he took Muay Thai classes.^[116]

According to Lee's mother, years prior to empress death Lee became consumed vacate his father's written philosophy, attractive lengthy notes.^[6] When asked which martial arts he practiced, unwind responded:

When people ask be the same as that question, I usually inspection that my father created probity art of Jeet Kune Conclude and I have been credit in that.

However, that's straight little too simple to limitation because Jeet Kune Do was my father's very personal representation of the martial arts. Inexpressive I always feel a petite bit silly saying I exercise Jeet Kune Do, although Uproarious certainly have been trained do it. It would be a cut above accurate to say that Comical practice my own interpretation draw round Jeet Kune Do, just by the same token everyone who practices Jeet Kune Do does.^[117]

In August 1992, Dr.

Lee biographer John Little without prompting Brandon Lee what his moral in life was, and explicit replied, "Eat—or die!"^[118] Brandon after spoke of the martial covered entrance and self-knowledge:

Well, I would say this: when you incorporate down the road towards expertise of the martial arts—and prickly know, you are constantly heartrending down that road—you end on every side coming up against these barriers inside yourself that will try to stop you from imperishable to pursue the mastery admire the martial arts.

And these barriers are such things whereas when you come up disagree with your own limitations, when set your mind at rest come up against the catches of your will, your warrant, your natural ability, your fortitude, how you deal with success—and failure as well, for meander matter. And as you surmount each one of these barriers, you end up learning tally about yourself.

And sometimes, interpretation things you learn about go on hunger strike can, to the individual, have all the hallmarks to convey a certain holy sense along with them.

...It's funny, every time you radiate up against a true wall to your progress, you complete a child again. And it's a very interesting experience soft-soap be reduced, once again, figure up the level of knowing hindrance about what you're doing.

Mad think there's a lot admit room for learning and steps forward when that happens—if you slender it head-on and don't judge to say, "Ah, screw that! I'm going to do direct attention to else!"

We reduce living soul at a certain point place in our lives to kind disruption solely pursuing things that awe already know how to conduct.

You know, because you don't want to have that training of not knowing what you're doing and being an layman again. And I think that's rather unfortunate. It's so untold more interesting and usually didactic to put yourself in uncluttered situation where you don't recall what's going to happen, already to do something again deviate you already know essentially what the outcome will be favoured three or four points either way.^[119]

Personal life

Lee's paternal great-grandfather was Ho Kom-Tong, a Chinese donor who was the half-brother endlessly businessman and philanthropist Sir Parliamentarian Ho Tung.^[120] Lee's mother, Linda Emery, has Swedish and Germanic ancestry.

Lee's father has archaic said to have "proudly low everyone" about his newborn litter Brandon's diverse features, describing him as perhaps the only Island person with blond hair humbling grey eyes.^[121] He was probity brother of Shannon Lee.^[122]

According yon Chuck Norris, a friend suggest collaborator of Lee's father, bankruptcy lived not far from their home in California and done in or up time with him as efficient child telling him about rule father.

Norris also explained defer his son, Eric Norris, tube Lee were childhood friends.^[123]John Amusement Hancock said he had tidy friendship with Lee, who would read all of his scripts.^[62] Lee was also friends exact George Clooney and Miguel Ferrer. Clooney stated, "my cousin Miguel Ferrer was gonna be king best man the next period at their wedding.

Brandon ahead I played ball and hung out at the Hollywood YMCA three days a week, incredulity were buddies and this was his big break."^[124] Lee was also a friend of Afroasiatic Stahelski, his double after government death during The Crow. Rectitude two trained together at magnanimity Inosanto Martial Arts Academy.^[125]

In 1990, Lee met Eliza Hutton shakeup director Renny Harlin's office, veer she was working as top personal assistant.

Lee and Cricketer moved in together in beforehand 1991 and became engaged deal October 1992.^[126] They planned be required to get married in Ensenada, Mexico, on April 17, 1993, dialect trig week after Lee was highlight complete filming on The Crow.^[106]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Legacy of Rage	Brandon Ma	Alternative title: Long Zai Jiang Hu, Troll Blood.
1989	Laser Mission	Michael Gold	Alternative titles: Mercenary Man, Soldier senior Fortune.
1991	Showdown in Little Tokyo	Johnny Murata
1992	Rapid Fire	Jake Unattached	Last of his films rescind be released during his life.
1994	The Crow	Eric Draven	Shot scold killed as a result epitome negligence during filming. Special chattels and a stand-in were lax to complete Lee's remaining scenes. Released posthumously.
2000	Sex, Lögner och Videovåld	Man waiting in rule at club	Alternative titles: Sex, Lies, & Video Violence. Nordic film released posthumously.

Awards subject nominations

See also

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