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Jalen & Jacoby

Be Water - The Life and Legacy of Bruce Lee

Jalen & Jacoby

Same Page Entertainment

Sports

4.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jalen & Jacoby dive into Be Water, a 30 for 30 documentary about the life and legacy of Bruce Lee, with director Bảo Nguyễn. They discuss Lee's involvement in fighting against social injustice and how he bridged that divide with martial arts, as well as his close relationship with NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jailene and Jacoby the After Show is presented by ADT. Real Protection.

0:05.5

And now, Jalen and Jacoby.

0:09.1

Welcome to Jailen and Jacoby, the after show.

0:11.7

Just watched B. Water, the story of Bruce Lee, and we are joined by the director, Bao Wyn.

0:17.1

Bow, what a masterpiece.

0:18.2

Thank you so much for joining us.

0:19.9

Thank you so much for having me.

0:21.9

Well, I want to start this where the film started with that test footage of a young Bruce Lee,

0:27.4

kind of getting camera tested for a Hollywood film. Why did you decide to sort of cold open with that?

0:33.5

I think this is like a version of Bruce Lee that we're not used to seeing. He's kind of like

0:38.2

antsy, anxious, not his confidence self right away. He doesn't know what's going on. This is his

0:44.4

first screen test for Hollywood that he's been a part of, even though in his past life in Hong Kong,

0:49.5

he was a child star. But at the same time, the footage shows just his charisma as as the screen

0:56.6

test continues. You can just see him about to whip this guy's ass, right, on screen. And so I think

1:04.2

it showed all the different layers that I wanted to tell in the story of Bruce from kind of

1:09.5

Bruce as an insecure, having vulnerabilities

1:13.1

to his rise into like being this badass martial artist.

1:17.7

And I think within just that screen test, there's that many layers.

1:23.0

As a huge Bruce Lee Stan myself, I applaud the work you did with this because I remember in my childhood making the ghetto noon chucks or wearing the Bruce Lee shoes, as we called them, and going to see the movies and stuff like that and really mimicking a lot of what he did.

1:46.0

What was your goal when you decided that you were going to make this documentary? Well, I, you know, for me, I, I came in a

1:54.2

later generation. I was born 10 years after Enter the Dragon came out, so I wasn't going to see

1:59.5

them in the movie theaters in

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