Following Quentin Tarantino’s comments regarding criticism of Bruce Lee’s depiction in Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee has spoken up and said that she is “really f****** tired of white men in Hollywood trying to tell me who Bruce Lee was.”
Tarantino was a guest of The Joe Rogan Experience as part of a media tour for his novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and said that, while he understands Shannon having a problem with her father’s portrayal in the film, everyone else can go “suck a ****.”
“I can understand his daughter having a problem with it, it’s her f****** father, I get that,” Tarantino said. “But anybody else [can] go suck a ****. If you look at it, it’s obvious Cliff tricked him, that’s how he was able to [beat him,] it’s explained a bit more in the book.”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Shannon for comment on Tarantino’s words, and she responded to the request by writing a guest column that dives deep into her thoughts on “the director’s characterization of the scene and other comments on the actual Bruce Lee.”
Read the full story here.
*Original article by Adam Bankhurst for IGN. *Cover image via Concord/Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Sh