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Jul 21, 2023 · Fifty years after the untimely death of Bruce Lee, the martial arts legend's daughter, Shannon Lee, is keeping his spirit alive and reflecting on his legacy.
Oct 10, 2020 · With the start of the second season of the TV show "Warrior", Scott Simon talks to Shannon Lee about her late father, martial artist Bruce Lee, and about her new book.
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Shannon was 4 years old when her father died, but since the early 2000s she’s led the Bruce Lee Foundation, an organization honoring his life. Around 2000, she says, she stumbled upon Bruce’s original treatment for Warrior, a TV series starring himself as a Chinese martial-arts prodigy named Ah Sahm wandering the West. Studios rejected it — and the...
…And it’s a good thing they’ve been doing so. Over the years, Shannon has fielded plenty of offers, but only director Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow, the Fast & Furiousfranchise) arrived with the right pitch. “Most of the time, people just want to option something from me, and they don’t want my involvement in it,” she explains. “They treat me li...
Bruce’s notes — from his lists of potential story ideas and sketches (like the one above) to his accounts of the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown — were invaluable to the creation of the Cinemax series, but they required some tweaking to fit the mold of modern TV storytelling. “[The treatment] was written in the style of 1970s episodic televisi...
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The caretaker of Bruce Lee’s estate, the 51-year-old producer and businesswoman details her dad’s personal ethos, centered on themes of self-reliance, introspection and inner strength (among...
Jun 8, 2020 · Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon, grew up with a passion for performing. Shannon spent half her childhood in Los Angeles, and the other half in Hong Kong, but one year after her father passed away in 1974, she moved to Los Angeles with her family, according to BruceLee.com.
Linda Lee Cadwell, Bruce Lee’s wife at the time, suddenly became a 28-year-old single mom to two young kids. She was forced to made the tough decision to sell her husband’s equity stake in...
Shannon Lee, actress-turned-writer and daughter of Bruce, is calmly apologetic, warning me that her electricity might be about to go out.
