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Originally Posted by Tant01
A lot of folks don't keep Bruce's film (movie) carreer in mind when they think of him as an "artist".
He may have been on the cutting edge of fighting but it was his ACTING and fight coreography for films that made him a star!
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Nonsense, the guy was not much of an actor. He was the best in martial arts films (still is), and an absolute master at presenting his abilities, to be sure. While, outside his film career he was a star, before, during, and after; he left a trail of martial arts competitors, instructors, legends in their own right, who were taken back by his martial skills - including the likes of Hayward Nishioka and Gene Lebelle, who supposedly bested him!
Lee was a guy who was making a name for himself in the world of martial arts and was not pursuing a film career at the time he was approached about possibly playing Kato (an after thought on the part of the Green Hornet's producers). It was during his Kato role that his bug to act resurrected itself. He'd been so committed to his training and developed so far beyond even most today that, prior to Kato, the world of martial arts was slowly growing abuzz with, "You've got to go down to Chinatown and see this young Chinese kid, he's amazing!," without the aid of any Bruce Lee movie...
Nuthugger, I mean, Liberty!