'Be Water' Explores Life And Legacy Of Martial Arts Star Bruce Lee
We speak with Bao Nguyen, the director of "Be Water," the new ESPN documentary about the life of the late film star Bruce Lee.
In 1973, Bruce Lee seemed to find stardom overnight following the premiere of the martial arts film “Enter the Dragon.”
But fame came too late for Lee, who died before the film’s opening at age 32. During his short career, Lee broke the long-held stereotypes of Asian men even when those stereotypes threatened to hold him back, as director Bao Nguyen shows in the new ESPN documentary “Be Water.”
Premiering on Sunday, the documentary goes beyond Lee’s legacy as an icon and looks at who he was as a person, Nguyen says.
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