Bruce Lee's daughter slams "irresponsible" Quentin Tarantino
The ongoing dispute between Quentin Tarantino and Bruce Lee's daughter shows no sign of slowing down, with Shannon Lee insisting that the director's portrayal of her father is "irresponsible" and "belittling".
Shannon appeared on today's (August 22) Good Morning Britain to discuss her father's depiction in Tarantino's recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Lee had previously compared Tarantino's vision of her father to that of "white Hollywood's", but the ever-provocative filmmaker has since insisted that actor Mike Moh's portrayal was truthful, claiming: "Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy."
Now, Shannon Lee has doubled-down on her earlier comments, calling the Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a "caricature" of her dad.
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Responding to Tarantino's recent comments, Shannon told GMB: "He wants to say, 'Oh, this was a fact, this is what he was like, but this is a fiction movie so don't bother yourself too much about it'."
Opening up about her father's influence in the Asian community, Shannon called the iconic actor, martial artist, and philosopher "a man of depth and a man of great character".
"[People] mistook his confidence, which he had in spades, as arrogance," she explained. "In particular if they were white men in Hollywood or in the martial arts or something like that…"
Suggesting Tarantino's creative decisions were not "respectful" towards her father, Shannon added: "[He is] being treated the way he was treated by Hollywood back in the time when he was trying to make accurate representations of Asian men in film.
"He was not treated respectfully. The way that he's portrayed by Quentin Tarantino in the film, is exactly in that way, sort of belittling him."
Earlier this month, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's co-stunt coordinator Robert Alonzo revealed that Tarantino's original screenplay saw Bruce Lee lose to Brad Pitt's fictional Cliff Booth, a move that both the crew and Pitt considered "concerning".
"I know that Brad had expressed his concerns, and we all had concerns about Bruce losing," Alonzo said. "Everyone involved was like, 'How is this going to go over?' Brad was very much against it. He was like, 'It's Bruce Lee, man!'"
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is out now. Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
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