Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview ' | Pierre Berton Show 1971

Bruce Lee faces a real dilemma he's on the verge of stardom in the United States with a projected TV series on the horizon but he's just achieved superstardom as a film actor here in Hong Kong so what does he choose the east or the West it's a kind of problem most budding movie actors would

welcome it's the Pierre Burton show the program that comes to you from the major capitals of the world this Edition comes to you from Hong Kong and Pierre's guest is the man who taught karate Judo and Chinese boxing to James Garner Steve McQueen Lee Marvin and James Coburn the newest Mandarin Superstar known in the

West for his appearances in Batman The Green Hornet Ironside and Long Street his name is Bruce Lee and he doesn't even speak Mandarin and here's Pierre well how can you play in Mandarin movies if you don't even speak Mandarin how do you do that well first of all I speak only kones yeah so I mean there is quite

a different as far as pronunciation and things like that going so somebody else's voice is used right for definitely definitely you just make the words was doesn't that sound strange when you go to the movies especially in in Hong Kong in your own town and you see yourself with somebody else's voice well not really you see because most of

the maning picture done here are dubbed anyway they dubbed anyway anyway I mean disregard I mean they shoot without sound so it doesn't you know make any difference your lips never quite make the right words do they yeah well that's where the difficulty lies you see I mean in order to because the cantones have a

different way of saying things you know I mean different from the mandarine so I have to find like something similar to that and keep a kind of a feeling going behind that something that matching the Mandarin do like complicated like the old silent days but I gather in in the movies made here the dialogue is pretty