Joe Rogan says Tarantino makes Bruce Lee look like a ‘dummy’ in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
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Joe Rogan has criticised Quentin Tarantino’s depiction of Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, arguing the director makes the martial arts icon look like “an egomaniacal dummy”.
“That was f***** up,” Rogan said, discussing the scene in Tarantino’s latest opus where Brad Pitt’s character Cliff Booth gets the better of Lee (played by Mike Moh) in an impromptu best two-out-of-three rounds fight on the set of The Green Hornet.
Brendan Schaub, Rogan’s guest on the latest episode of his YouTube podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, disagreed. “I don’t know, I’m sure Bruce Lee’s daughter is gonna jump all over us. The stuff I heard, Bruce Lee was a philosopher. Was he a fighter? Was he really that much of a bad ass?
“I don’t know. I’ve heard he is, I’ve heard from some people that no, he’s never really been in a lot of fights. So what I thought was great is Quentin Tarantino put his perspective on it, and I loved it.”