Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, and Anna May Wong's niece, Anna Wong, had never met before doing a recent joint interview with The Associated Press
— both women reflected on how things have changed since the blatantly racist practices that permeated Wong and Lee's heydays.
“When he started telling me about the pretty lady, I was wanting to realize who she was,” Wong said. “And then I became obsessed with her films and seeing all kinds of things.” “When you look at the pay stubs and then they say what everyone’s getting paid, he’s like way down on the bottom," Lee said."Hopefully, there’s changes happening there.”
“With this one film now everybody’s like, ‘Oh, that’s what Bruce Lee was really like,'” Lee told the AP. “No, that was not what he was like at all."
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