Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee has once again spoken up against director Quentin Tarantino for making an “inaccurate” and “unnecessary” depiction of her father in the 2019 film Once Upon A Time... Tarantino, currently promoting the novelisation of his film, stated that he understood Shannon having problems with how Bruce was depicted in the film but dismissed others’ criticism of the character. Shannon also expressed frustration over being told Bruce was not American and that he only did martial arts “for the movies”. “My father lived and breathed martial arts, ” she said in the column, pointing out that Bruce had taught, wrote about and created his own martial art, among others. Citing attacks against Asian Americans in the United States, she told Tarantino to reconsider further comments about her father and that his “misrepresentation” of Bruce was “not welcome”.
