Almost every working Asian actor in Hollywood can trace their path back to Bruce Lee and Anna May Wong. Well, they may have seen each other at like a party or something,” said Anna Wong, the elder Wong’s niece and namesake. She’s thrilled for Yeoh’s recognition, especially because for so long Hollywood used Bruce Lee to justify casting Asians only as characters there just to karate chop. “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.“Anna May Wong died in 1961 at 56 and Bruce Lee died in 1973 at 32.

Source: The Star March 09, 2023 01:51 UTC