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Bruce Lee Imitator Says Copying Iconic Martial Artist Was Tougher Than It Looked: ‘Acting Is Not Like Kung Fu’
For 'The Game of Clones: Brucesploitation Collection Vol. 1,' Bruce Lee imitator Bruce Le discusses the heyday of the 'Brucesploitation' genre and its lessons.
As Lee’s final (complete) film “Enter the Dragon,” released just six days after his death, became a worldwide box office phenomenon, “Brucesploitation” was born, enlisting look-alike performers to replace and imitate the trailblazing martial artist on screen. Meanwhile, Le also performed in an unforgettable (and entirely unrelated) martial arts scene in Juan Piquer Simón’s cult 1982 horror film “Pieces,” where a Bruce Lee imitator attacks star Lynda Day George on the Boston college campus where she works. Le later worked with Harold Sakata, best known for playing Oddjob in “Goldfinger,” Australian martial artist Richard Norton (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), and taught kung fu to Robert Patrick.
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