Abdul-Jabbar says that scene would have NEVER happened – “First rule of Bruce’s fight club was don’t fight” (via toofab)
stuntman character, Cliff Booth, and Bruce Lee challenge each other to an informal fight -- best two-out-of-three -- while on the set of "The Green Hornet" TV show. Although Lee easily wins the first round, Booth throws Lee into a car in the second. The duo is interrupted before they go at a third round."I was in public with Bruce several times when some random jerk would loudly challenge Bruce to a fight. He always politely declined and moved on," he claimed.
"The only roles were for inscrutable villains or bowing servants," Abdul-Jabbar recounted. "Asian men were portrayed as sexless accessories to a scene, while the women were subservient." "That would be really nice," Shannon continued, "Or he could apologize or he could say, 'I don't really know what Bruce Lee was like. I just wrote it for my movie. But that shouldn't be taken as how he really was.'"Shannon's response came a few days after Tarantino defended Lee's depiction in his latest film during a recent press tour in Moscow, Russia. The Oscar-winning screenwriter claimed Lee was "kind of an arrogant guy.
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