Bruce Lee’s daughter: Tarantino’s comments are ‘not welcome’

Shannon Lee does not treatment if Quentin Tarantino likes Bruce Lee or not, she just thinks it would be finest if the director stopped speaking about him.

“I’m definitely f— tired of white gentlemen in Hollywood attempting to notify me who Bruce Lee was,” writes Lee, his daughter, in a visitor column for the Hollywood Reporter on Friday in reaction to Tarantino’s most up-to-date opinions defending his depiction of the late Chinese American martial artist and actor in the 2019 film “Once On a Time … in Hollywood.”

“I’ve come across adequate of them above the yrs (and not just in Hollywood) who want to mansplain Bruce Lee to me and use Bruce Lee when and how it fits them with out acknowledging his humanity, his legacy, or his family members in the approach that a bit of a pattern has emerged,” adds Lee, who is also the chief govt of the Bruce Lee Spouse and children Co. “I’m … not declaring that no a single is permitted to have a damaging opinion of Bruce Lee. I’m declaring your opinion may be coloured by particular or cultural bias, and that there is a pattern.”

On Tuesday, the “Once On a Time” director appeared on Spotify’s “The Joe Rogan Experience” to encourage the just-unveiled novelization of the film and dealt with those who had been crucial of its portrayal of Bruce Lee when the film was at first unveiled. Although Tarantino could fully grasp Shannon Lee “having a challenge with it” due to the fact it’s her father, he dismissed other critics with a bit of vulgar slang.

In “Once On a Time,” the fictional stuntman Cliff Booth (played by Brad Pitt), is challenged to a sparring match by Bruce Lee (Mike Moh). The scene has been described as “disrespectful” and “a mockery” of the authentic-daily life martial art’s icon and his legacy.

Shannon Lee was amongst those who was vocal in her disappointment. “The script treatment of my father as this arrogant, egotistical punching bag was definitely disheartening — and, I really feel, avoidable,” Lee earlier told The Periods just after seeing the film.

Others, which includes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, weighed in on the conversation that adopted. Abdul-Jabbar wrote in a 2019 column for the Hollywood Reporter that Tarantino’s depiction of Bruce Lee was “sloppy and considerably racist” and termed it “a failure both equally as an artist and as a human currently being.”

Tarantino, for his part, has ongoing to stand by his depiction, even likely so far as to claim that it is an correct representation of Bruce Lee, citing guides and biographers to bulk up his defense. Lee biographer Matthew Polly, on the other hand, has discredited Tarantino’s assertions and even told Esquire in an interview that the scene in “Once On a Time” “is not only wholly inaccurate, it turns Lee into a disrespectful blowhard and jerk.”

Shannon Lee adds that Tarantino’s ongoing opinions are unwelcome, especially in the continuing prevalence of Anti-Asian racism and violence in this final calendar year.

“At a time when Asian Us citizens are currently being physically attacked, told to ‘go home’ simply because they are seen as not American, and demonized for some thing that has nothing to do with them,” she writes, “I really feel moved to suggest that Mr. Tarantino’s ongoing assaults, mischaracterizations and misrepresentations of a trailblazing and impressive member of our Asian American group, proper now, are not welcome.”