"The makers of The Green Hornet had to actively restrain Bruce Lee from being himself because they realized every time they saw the rushes that everything else was wiped off-screen." "Every kid, I believe, in America noticed that guy behind the Hornet- the one who could kick, the one who could punch, the one who could move so amazingly-all eyes centered on him," film critic Ric Meyers told Newsweek. His martial arts prowess earned him his first acting role, as the masked sidekick Kato on TV's The Green Hornet. His strength was never just brute force-Lee also preached flexibility, grace and precision. Lee was first and foremost a kung fu expert, even developing his own style, Jeet Kune Do, or "the way of the intercepting fist." A Hong Kong-American with a Eurasian mother, he broke down racial barriers, teaching his fighting technique to students from all backgrounds. He returned to America at 18, enrolling at the University of Washington and marrying an American woman, Linda Emery. His father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was a famous Cantonese opera star and film actor, and Bruce was acting in Hong Kong movies from childhood. In a film career that spanned just four years and five completed films, he symbolized a new kind of movie stardom before his untimely death at just 32 years old.īorn in San Francisco in 1940, Lee moved back to his parent's native Hong Kong when he was just three months old. Bruce Lee was far more than just an action-movie star.
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