When he finally got into the acting business, grand opportunities soon came in great supply.īrandon Lee Was Approached To Portray His Father In A Bruce Lee Biopic In the interview, Brandon Lee goes on to describe how, in some years that followed, how his 17-year-old self would hitchhike across the country, learning more about himself and who he wanted to be along the way. You know, stuff that seem petty now but, at the time, it seemed pretty important and I guess the higher ups didn’t like what I had to say… It was certainly nothing more than foolish pride that got me thrown out and I’m sure if I decided to back down, I probably could have had that … It doesn’t seem to have made my life a particularly darker or unhappier place not having it.

The little piece of paper they gave me when I was kicked out said that I had a bad attitude towards the educational process and was a poisonous influence upon the minds of my fellow students… I had the power as student body president to call these meetings of the entire student body and I think that, usually, these meetings were used for the student body president to have some rally about picking up trash on campus or something like that and I used to call these meetings, very frequently, and talked to the kids about what we were actually doing there in school.

In another 1992 interview to promote Rapid Fire, Lee explained to famed interviewer Bobbie Wygant how he came to be expelled from his high school:

Brandon Lee Was Kicked Out Of High School When He Was 17īefore he was stirring up trouble for his onscreen enemies, Brandon Lee was branded a troublemaker in his teens.

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