In the 1993 biopic Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, our titular hero and his then-girlfriend Linda catch a screening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which infamously features the non-Japanese Mickey Rooney playing a caricatured Japanese man.
The theater erupts in laughter at this depiction – one the film’s director and Rooney himself would later regret – but Bruce is visibly uncomfortable.
As depicted in the movie Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story, after Bruce Lee impresses Bill Krieger as Kato on the set of The Green Hornet, he walks and talks him through the Warner Bros.
back lot with a pitch for a TV show.
“How about the Wild West?” Bruce says.
“Okay, great,” Bill responds, rolling with the idea of a western starring a Chinese immigrant wandering the land solving problems each week “with no gun, just his hands.” He’s searching, not for his father but his brother, Bill says.
Later, a…
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