Heirs of Chinese-American screen icons found shared experiences talking about their legendary ancestors Bruce Lee, Anna May Wong
Almost every working Asian actor in Hollywood can trace their path back to Bruce Lee and Anna May Wong.
"My father was an actor when he was a child in Hong Kong. So, you know, he may have seen some of her films that came across," Shannon Lee chimed in."He loved to see Hollywood films as well when he was young." Lee has a"soft spot" for Yeoh because she came from kung fu cinema like her father. 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.
While Lee was 4 when her father died, Wong never met her aunt. She knew her as"the pretty lady" in the pictures her father -- Anna May Wong's brother -- kept around the house. The younger Wong brings this up on the lecture circuit. Millennial audiences"find it completely irrational to say, 'OK, so let's take a Caucasian person and make them up to look like an Asian person and ... no one will notice,'" Wong said.
Neither actor was ever nominated for an Oscar. But the 2020 Netflix miniseries"Hollywood" depicted an alternate universe where Anna May Wong -- played by Michelle Krusiec -- won an Oscar. It created a nuisance for her niece and a reminder of a sad time in the actor's life. Anna May Wong died in 1961 at 56 and Bruce Lee died in 1973 at 32. All these years later, the interest in them hasn't abated.
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