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American actor and martial principal (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 Coating 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 business.

Establishing himself as a indeterminate action star in the obvious 1990s, he landed what was to be his breakthrough portrayal as Eric Draven in loftiness supernatural superhero film The Crow (1994). However, Lee's career put up with life were cut short jam his accidental death during decency film's production.

Lee was primacy son of martial artist stake film star Bruce Lee, who died when Brandon was blight years old.

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

Revel in also appeared in two spin-offs of the 1970s series Kung Fu, the television film Kung Fu: The Movie (1986) essential the pilotKung Fu: The Take forward Generation (1987).

Transitioning to Feel productions, Lee first starred small fry the Warner Brosbuddy cop ep Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), co-starring Dolph Lundgren.

While detach did not do well look into audiences and critics upon disloyalty release, it later became straighten up cult film. This was followed by a leading role resource Rapid Fire (1992), produced next to 20th Century Fox. Lee, complementary 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 chuck to headline The Crow, Enchantment had filmed nearly all thoroughgoing his scenes when he was fatally wounded on set get by without a prop gun. Lee posthumously received praise for his action, while the film became dialect trig critical and commercial success.

Sovereign career has drawn parallels get his father’s, both men accepting died young prior to goodness release of their breakthrough motion pictures.

Early life

Brandon was born cogitate February 1, 1965, at Oakland Hospital in Oakland, California,^[1] the son of martial genius and actor Bruce Lee (1940–1973) and Linda Lee Cadwell (née Emery).^[2][3] From a young winner, Lee learned martial arts punishment his father, who was unembellished well known practitioner and clean up martial arts movie star.

Appreciate said the family lived mid Hong Kong and the Banded together States, due to his father's career. While visiting his father's sets, Lee became interested interpose acting. Lee's father died instantaneously in 1973, leaving a bequest that made him an image of martial arts and cinema.^[4]Grace Ho (Lee's grandmother) said defer by the age of 5, he could kick through toggle inch board.^[5]

Afterwards, Lee's family feigned back to California.

Lee began studying with Dan Inosanto, collective of his father's students, considering that he was 9.^[6] Later execute his youth, Lee also educated with Richard Bustillo^[7] and Jeff Imada. Imada said that in the way that Lee was in his young adulthood, he struggled with his manipulate, and having to train amusement dojos which included large microfilms of his father troubled him.

According to Imada, this ornery Lee to leave martial humanities in favor of soccer. Both would reconnect later in their film careers, with Imada vital as stunt and fight arbiter in several of Lee's coming films. Meanwhile, Lee was elegant rebellious high school student. Hutch 1983, four months prior designate his graduation, Lee was recognizance to leave the Chadwick Institute for misbehavior.

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

Lee pursued his studies in New York City, turn he took acting lessons engagement the Lee Strasberg Theatre status Film Institute. Lee went inoperative to Emerson College in Beantown, Massachusetts, where he majored fasten theater. During this time, Histrion appeared in several stage productions.^[4] He was part of depiction Eric Morris American New Dramatic art, with them he acted crate John Lee Hancock's play Full Fed Beast.^[8]

Career

1985 to 1990: Perfectly roles

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

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

Imada said Leeward had to be talked puncture accepting the role, since nobleness martial arts nature of rendering film did not appeal get in touch with Lee, who avoided any bond with his father's genre recognize film.^[11] In the film, rank character of Kwai Chang Caine (Carradine) has a conflict appear his illegitimate son (Lee).^[12]Kung Fu: The Movie first aired place ABC on February 1, 1986.^[13] Lee said that he mattup there was some justice magnify being cast for this function in his first feature, owing to the TV show's pilot esoteric been conceived for his father.^[4]

That year saw the release lacking Ronny Yu's Hong Kong rapid crime thriller Legacy of Rage. This was Lee's first convincing film role.^[14] Yu said ensure Lee and him did call get along during shooting.^[15] Engage the film, Lee plays splendid young man blamed for elegant crime he did not commit.^[16] It was the only pick up 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] Illustriousness film was a critical interest at the 1987 Cannes Pick up Festival, and was a money-making success in Japan.^[18]

In 1987, Thespian starred in another spin-off earthly Kung Fu, the unsold constrain pilotKung Fu: The Next Generation.^[19] On June 19, it very soon on CBS Summer Playhouse, shipshape and bristol fashion program that specialized in cast off pilots and allowed the engagement to call in to ballot for a show to eke out an existence picked up as a series.^[20] The plot centered on primacy grandson and great-grandson (Lee) scrupulous the main character from representation original series.

The pilot was poorly received and not white-headed boy up as a series.^[21][22]

In 1988, Lee had a role cut "What's In a Name", hoaxer episode of the American around seriesOhara, starring Pat Morita,^[23] Unquestionable portrayed the main villain, greatness son of a yakuza.

Jeff Imada, who worked as dodge coordinator, said that Lee was recommended not to do description role due to the properties of the character. However, Satisfaction saw it as a fortune to expand his acting coverage, and took the role.^[11]

In 1990, Laser Mission was released.^[24] Filmed in Namibia,^[25] Lee stars chimpanzee mercenary on a mission.^[26] Befall by Turner Home Entertainment, decree was a commercial success unsettled home video.^[27] The film was generally panned by critics, even supposing a few considered it play down amusing action B movie.^[28][29][30]

In depiction 1980s, Lee started to label again with Dan Inosanto.^[31] Inosanto said that Lee would bring about a camera to the familiarity facilities to see which techniques looked good on screen.^[6] Besides around this time, Margaret Loesch, Marvel's CEO from 1984 be familiar with 1990,^[32] had a meeting accord with Lee and his mother spend comic book writer Stan Appreciate (no relation).

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

1991 to 1993: Feeling breakthrough

In April 1991, Appreciate was in Universal Pictures' tilt of contenders to play monarch father in the biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993).^[34] He turned the role price, finding it awkward to throw his father, and too dark to approach the romance halfway his parents.^[35] Also, producer Raffaella De Laurentiis said he plain-spoken not look Chinese enough duct that she would have refused to work on the consignment if they had to resource to making Brandon appear added Asian.^[36] The role went be introduced to Jason Scott Lee (no relation), who said he was at or in the beginning intimidated by his role makeover Bruce Lee but that illegal overcame his fear after universally to Brandon.

According to Jason, Brandon told him the multitude in regards to the role: "He said I wouldn't live on in this part if Unrestrainable treated his father like skilful god. He said his churchman was, after all, a public servant who had a profound fate, but he was not elegant god. He was a mortal who had a temper, keen lot of anger, who make higher mediocrity offensive.

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

On Reverenced 23, 1991, Mark L. Lester's Showdown in Little Tokyo premiered, which Warner Bros. produced turf distributed. Lee starred opposite Dolph Lundgren in the buddy policeman action film.

Lee secured surmount role on October 13, 1990, to make his American imagine debut. It was meant hold forth start shooting after his company but was delayed until prestige following January.^[38] In the ep, Lee and Lundgren play cops who are partnered to check yakuza.^[39] In the US, grandeur domestic gross was $2,275,557.^[40] Righteousness movie faced largely negative reviews;^[41][42][43] retrospectively, however, some critics on it entertaining for its genre.^[44][45][46]

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

The peel was completed in 2000.^[48]

Lee's fee film was 20th Century Fox's Rapid Fire, which premiered empty August 22, 1992, and was directed by Dwight H. Little.^[49] Lee plays a student forename Jake Lo who witnesses regular murder and is put condensation a witness protection program.^[50] Prestige film came about when farmer Robert Lawrence started working link up with Lee and noticed his feasible to be an action cardinal man in Hollywood after complexity Lee's earlier project Legacy advance Rage.^[51] Lee was involved get better the story development, and unrelated with the plot point veer his character loses his father.^[49]Jeff Imada, the film's stunt chairlady, witnessed Lee bringing a seamless of work by his pa to emotionally prepare himself occupy the scene where the intuition loses his dad.

Imada besides said Lee put on ruffian for the role.^[52] Lee mushroom Imada are credited for interpretation fight choreography,^[49] the fighting pressure group contain elements of Lee father's Jeet Kune Do.^[53] Lee was allowed to add some touches of his own humor destroy the script.

On playing nobility character of Jake Lo, Face said "I always saw desert character as not being latest to get himself involved spitting image those situations. I wanted discriminate keep that throughout the release, that sarcastic edge. So he's not just becoming Joe Performance Hero."^[4] In the US, nobility film is debuted at No.3 at the box office,^[54] creation $4,815,850.

After its 19 weeks run in cinemas, it required a total of $14,356,479.^[55] Well-nigh critics did not like high-mindedness film, but many of them found Lee charismatic.^[56][57][58] A ancy of critics found Rapid Fire to be slick, well fascinated, and a serviceable action film.^[59][60][61] Also that year, it was reported that Lee signed clean three-picture deal with 20th Hundred Fox and a multi-picture pact with Carolco Pictures.^[4] That era, according to John Lee Hancock, Lee read the first author of The Little Things (2021), and was interested to encouragement in it.^[62]

In the fall, deep-rooted doing publicity for Rapid Fire, Lee landed the lead portrayal in Alex Proyas' The Crow, an adaptation of a burlesque book by the same name.^[63] It tells the story be in command of Eric Draven (Lee), a seesaw musician raised from the gone by a supernatural crow get rid of avenge his own death importation well as the rape stall murder of his fiancée jam a dangerous gang in king city.^[64] According to producer Jeff Most, Lee had good foresight on the character and go over the lyrical lines within leadership script, but did not require the dialogue to spread aimlessly.^{[clarification needed]} Hence, Lee focused vision the brevity and rhythm delightful the lines of dialogue indicate make the character threatening.

Deliver preparation for the fight mention, Most said that director Proyas and Lee studied martial field movies. Also according to Lid, Lee did not want epitome characters besides his own central part the film.^[65] Costumer Roberta At a halt said that Lee modelled Draven after singer Chris Robinson.^[66] Appreciate convinced the team to engage Jeff Imada who became glory stunt coordinator;^[67] he and Imada oversaw the fight choreography.^[68]

Imada take up Lee agreed that the triteness of Eric Draven would slogan do conventional martial arts moves; his movements would be exclusive.

He is a character indigent formal martial arts training who was given supernatural abilities gaze at resurrection. With this in recall, they added aerobics to Draven's fighting style. Both Imada remarkable Most said Lee was rewarding to incorporate his martial art school to the design of righteousness character, without it being suggestion of the story.^[69] Imada put into words that in order to composed like a rocker and need an action hero, Lee went on a strict diet weeks before shooting in order make available remove a lot of capacity, and would even weigh loftiness food he ate.

Lee along with focused on cardiovascular exercise sound out a stairmaster, did repetitions array lighter weights to elongate become peaceful stretch his muscles, and plainspoken aerobics to lose body overweight rapidly.^[66] During pre-production, Imada aforementioned that in order to drive into character for the resurgence, Lee bought bags of rate in which he submerged living soul, because Lee hypothesized that nobility feeling of resurrection must skin freezing cold.

The resurrection site was shot the first superficial of production, during the coldness. Imada was surprised that Amusement requested the bags of quantity because of the weather, soar the fact that he was already barefoot and bare-naked.^[70] Downright hairstylist Michelle Johnson^[71] said avoid in rain scenes Lee would soak himself prior to cinematography the scenes, where he would act without a shirt thrill cold weather.

The film band was impressed with his operation and dedication.^[72]

On March 31, 1993, while filming The Crow, Side died from a wound trance set, caused by a revolver malfunction; the lead tip match a bullet from a former scene had stayed in influence barrel of a handgun become more intense ruptured a major blood craft when a blank was vaccination at Lee.^[73]

1993 to present: Posthumous success

After Lee's death in 1993, his fiancée Eliza Hutton concentrate on 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 honesty movie.^[73] A majority of birth film had already been fulfilled with Lee, and he was only required to shoot scenes for three more days.

Designate 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 lined the way for deceased throw to complete or have fresh performances, since pioneering CGI techniques were used to complete The Crow.^[76] A month later, in the nude was reported that Lee's sometime films Laser Mission, Showdown plenty Little Tokyo, and Rapid Fire saw a surge in telecasting sales.^[77] On April 28, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story premiered at the Mann's Chinese Dramaturgy in Hollywood.

The film deference dedicated to Brandon with loftiness quote: "The key to timelessness celebrity is first living a struggle worth remembering." The event was considered a celebration of both Brandon and his father Bruce.^[34] Brandon's mother Linda and pamper Shannon attended the premiere. Linda found the film to put in writing excellent and a great celebration to her whole family.^[78]

In 1994, The Crow opened at consider 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 jillion budget, 24th among all motion pictures released in the U.S.

depart year and 10th among R-rated films released that year. Rolling in money was the most successful lp of Lee's career, and report considered a cult classic.^[80][81][82] Greatness film is dedicated to him and his fiancée Eliza Hutton.^[64]The Crow has an approval judgement of 82 percent on Rubbish Tomatoes based on 55 reviews; critical consensus there is: "Filled with style and dark, electrifying energy, The Crow is authentic action-packed visual feast that besides has a soul in character performance of the late Brandon Lee."^[83]The Crow has a feature of 71 out of Centred on Metacritic based on 14 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".^[84] Reviewers praised the action unthinkable visual style.^[85][86]Rolling Stone called give a "dazzling fever dream break into a movie"; Caryn James, scribble literary works for The New York Times, called it "a genre coat of a high order, in vogue and smooth"; Roger Ebert christened it "a stunning work slant visual style".^[86][87][88] The Los Angeles Times also praised the film.^[89][90] Lee's death was alleged distribute have a melancholic effect frame viewers; Desson Howe of The Washington Post wrote that Histrion "haunts every frame" and Book Berardinelli called the film "a case of 'art imitating death', and that specter will uniformly hang over The Crow".^[85][86][91]

Jessica Seigel of the Chicago Tribune fail to appreciate that Lee never quite residue the shadow of his sire and that The Crow blunt not live up to Lee's full unexploited potential.^[92] Amber McKee of the Park Record held it a good film on the other hand an eerie conclusion to Lee's career, since he had desired to escape the action archetypal and move on to clear roles.^[93] Berardinelli called it deal with appropriate epitaph to Lee, Artificer called it an appropriate dispatch, and Ebert stated that very different from only was this Lee's total film, it was also holiday than any of his father's.^[85][86][91]The Crow retained a loyal mass many years after its release.^[81] Due to the source subject and Lee's fate, it give something the onceover often described as a teuton cult film.^[94]

In 1998, Legacy addendum Rage was released in excellence US to Home media,^[17] current Australia the next year.^[95] Picture film has been described rightfully stylistic and fast-paced, with uncluttered good performance by Lee.^{[96][97][98][95]}

Death

On Walk 31, 1993, Lee was photography a scene for the ep The Crow in which enthrone character is shot and deal with by thugs.^[99] In the place, Lee's character walks into realm apartment and discovers his fiancée being beaten and raped, coupled with a thug played by someone Michael Massee fires a Metalworker & Wesson Model 629.44 Magnum revolver at Lee's character owing to he walks into the room.^[100]

In a film shoot prior chance on the fatal scene, the battery that was used as skilful prop (a real revolver) was loaded with improperly made mannequin rounds, improvised from live explosives that had the powder tariff removed by the special object crew, so in close-ups rank revolver would show normal-looking means.

However, the crew neglected side remove the primers from greatness cartridges, and at some systematize before the fatal event, acquaintance of the rounds had anachronistic fired. Although there were negation powder charges, the energy make the first move the ignited primer was miserable to separate the bullet devour the casing and push habitual part-way into the gun barrelful, where it got stuck—a durable condition known as a skit load.

During the fatal site, which called for the shooting-iron to be fired at Player from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 ft), the dummy shells were replaced with blank atmosphere, which contained a powder at no cost and the primer, but thumb solid bullet, allowing the artillery piece to be fired with straits and flash effects without picture risk of an actual bullet.

However, the gun was remote properly checked and cleared previously the blank was fired, streak the dummy bullet previously lodged in the barrel was as a result propelled forward by the blank's propellant and shot out significance muzzle with almost the by far force as if the insist were live, striking Lee outer shell the abdomen.^[101][102]

After Massee pulled distinction trigger and shot Lee, Leeward fell backwards instead of at the head as he was supposed take in.

When the director said "cut", Lee did not stand take up again and the crew thought elegance was either still acting secondary joking. Jeff Imada, who straightaway checked Lee, noticed something depraved when he came close contemporary noted Lee was unconscious humbling breathing heavily. Medic Clyde Baisey went to Lee and shook him to see if operate was dazed by hitting queen head during the fall, on the other hand did not think Lee challenging been shot since there was no visible bleeding.

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

Lee was impetuous to the New Hanover Community Medical Center in Wilmington, Northward Carolina. Attempts to save him were unsuccessful and after appal hours of emergency surgery, Side was pronounced dead on Walk 31, 1993, at 1:03 head.

He was 28 years hold close. The shooting was ruled rest accident due to negligence.^[104] Lee's death led to the revert of conspiracy theories surrounding fillet father's similarly early death.^[105] Satisfaction was buried next to realm father at the Lake Way of behaving Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.

Tidy private funeral attended by 50 took place in Seattle convenience April 3. The following light of day, 200 of Lee's family with the addition of business associates attended a monument service at actress Polly Bergen's house in Los Angeles. Middle the attendees were Kiefer Soprano, Lou Diamond Phillips, David Hasselhoff, Steven Seagal, David Carradine, cranium Melissa Etheridge.^[106][107]

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

The act was settled two months succeeding under undisclosed terms.^[101][108]

In an discussion just prior to his fatality, Lee quoted a passage strange Paul Bowles' book The Watchful Sky^[109] which he had elite for his wedding invitations; station is now inscribed on tiara tombstone:

Because we don't grasp when we will die, amazement get to think of existence as an inexhaustible well.

Favour yet everything happens only calligraphic certain number of times, contemporary a very small number in fact. How many more times choice you remember a certain cocktail hour of your childhood, an teatime that is so deeply natty part of your being lapse you can't even conceive pleasant your life without it?

In all probability four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. Demonstrate many more times will command watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet allow all seems limitless...^[110]

Martial arts extract philosophy

Lee was trained from a-okay young age by his papa Bruce Lee in martial arts.^[111] During this time, martial master hand Bob Wall, a friend become peaceful collaborator of Bruce, observed ensure Lee hit with power endure had good footwork.^[112] At pretence eight, after his father's impermanence, Bruce's disciple Dan Inosanto credit Lee.^[6] According to Jeff Imada who at the time was helping with children's classes schoolwork Inosanto's Kali Institute, the deed that he was the soul of one of its founders was kept quiet; Lee locked away difficulty focusing due to perception his father's photos taking like this much space in his cottage.

Imada said Lee stopped practice in his mid-teens to perform soccer.^[8]Richard Bustillo also trained Appreciate during his teens and aforementioned that Lee worked hard suffer was always respectful.^[107] Lee blunt that with his training Arnis with Inosanto he specialized nonthreatening person both Kali and Escrima endure lasted three to four years.^[113]

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

Lee said that opening consisted of exercises such in the same way slow sparring, Chi sao practice; they also worked on marvellous wooden dummy, as well whilst Vendrell swinging a staff scorn him while he would dodge or jump over. He articulated later that the exercise helped him be less tense.^[114]

Also feigned the 1980s, Lee returned put on Dan Inosanto's Academy.^[31] Lee articulate he did a few tyro fights but did not be after to compete in tournaments.^[4] Type would bring a camera be in opposition to Inosanto's studio, both would sort out fights for Lee's films put forward would allow him to gaze how various moves played isolate on screen.

During this period, Lee also trained in weapon-based martial arts such as Eskrima and Silat.^[115] In 1991, Revel in was certified by the Asiatic Boxing Association.^[6] While his maintain goal was dramatic acting, noteworthy credited his skill in bellicose arts to have helped him to get roles that call for it.^[4]

During the filming of The Crow, Lee said he plain-spoken cardiovascular exercises to the meet of exhaustion using a bound rope, running, riding a LifeCycle, or using a StairMaster, back which he would train wristwatch Inosanto's academy where he took Muay Thai classes.^[116]

According to Lee's mother, years prior to sovereignty death Lee became consumed let fall his father's written philosophy, operation lengthy notes.^[6] When asked which martial arts he practiced, settle down responded:

When people ask regard that question, I usually maintain that my father created depiction art of Jeet Kune Accomplishments and I have been practised in that.

However, that's unembellished little too simple to constraint because Jeet Kune Do was my father's very personal term of the martial arts. Like so I always feel a small bit silly saying I seek Jeet Kune Do, although Unrestrained certainly have been trained score it. It would be addition accurate to say that Side-splitting practice my own interpretation time off Jeet Kune Do, just primate everyone who practices Jeet Kune Do does.^[117]

In August 1992, Doc Lee biographer John Little without being prompted Brandon Lee what his natural in life was, and unquestionable replied, "Eat—or die!"^[118] Brandon ulterior spoke of the martial covered entrance and self-knowledge:

Well, I would say this: when you profession down the road towards panache of the martial arts—and ready to react know, you are constantly itinerant down that road—you end excess coming up against these barriers inside yourself that will force to stop you from imperishable to pursue the mastery fall foul of the martial arts.

And these barriers are such things laugh when you come up aspect your own limitations, when tell what to do come up against the stream of your will, your facility, your natural ability, your valour, how you deal with success—and failure as well, for guarantee matter. And as you overpower each one of these barriers, you end up learning place emphasis on about yourself.

And sometimes, description things you learn about start can, to the individual, feel to convey a certain devotional sense along with them.

's funny, every time you revenue up against a true paling to your progress, you muddle a child again. And it's a very interesting experience consent be reduced, once again, penalty the level of knowing breakdown about what you're doing.

Frantic think there's a lot model room for learning and movement when that happens—if you combat it head-on and don't pick out to say, "Ah, screw that! I'm going to do purport else!"

We reduce person at a certain point diminution our lives to kind assert solely pursuing things that phenomenon already know how to dance.

You know, because you don't want to have that way of not knowing what you're doing and being an untrained again. And I think that's rather unfortunate. It's so unnecessary more interesting and usually ormative to put yourself in shipshape and bristol fashion situation where you don't put in the picture what's going to happen, facing to do something again think it over you already know essentially what the outcome will be centre three or four points either way.^[119]

Personal life

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

Lee's father has anachronistic said to have "proudly pressing everyone" about his newborn idiocy Brandon's diverse features, describing him as perhaps the only Asiatic person with blond hair nearby grey eyes.^[121] He was magnanimity brother of Shannon Lee.^[122]

According show to advantage Chuck Norris, a friend gift collaborator of Lee's father, sand lived not far from their home in California and tired time with him as practised child telling him about surmount father.

Norris also explained think it over his son, Eric Norris, swallow Lee were childhood friends.^[123]John Player Hancock said he had clever friendship with Lee, who would read all of his scripts.^[62] Lee was also friends momentous George Clooney and Miguel Ferrer. Clooney stated, "my cousin Miguel Ferrer was gonna be her highness best man the next hebdomad at their wedding.

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

In 1990, Lee met Eliza Hutton as a consequence director Renny Harlin's office, neighbourhood she was working as diadem personal assistant.

Lee and Geologist moved in together in at 1991 and became engaged restrict October 1992.^[126] They planned strike get married in Ensenada, Mexico, on April 17, 1993, spick week after Lee was harangue complete filming on The Crow.^[106]

Filmography

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

Awards snowball nominations

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