Tarantino says he knows the martial arts legend was an 'arrogant guy' and insisted Brad Pitt would whoop him (via toofab)
At one point in the film Pitt's 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.
She added, "Here, he's the one with all the puffery and he's the one challenging Brad Pitt. Which is not how he was." Although Shannon said she understands Tarantino's reasoning for her father's portrayal, it didn't make it any easier for her to watch, especially due to what her father had to go through as an Asian-American actor in the 1960s.
"I understand they want to make the Brad Pitt character this super bad-ass who could beat up Bruce Lee," she continued. "But they didn’t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive."
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