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  • Spoke and wrote Cantonese and used it in Legacy of Rage and Rapid Fire

  • He was not asked to play the part of Chang Caine's son in the Kung Fu: the Next Generation TV series

  • Usually played the antihero

  • He had signed for two more Crow movies

  • For his role in Rapid Fire, he took gymnastics

  • Brandon lost weight to play a corpse

  • His movements in The Crow were patterned after singer Chris Robinson of  The Black Crowes--not the rock star Iggy Pop, as has been posted
    on some website trivia pages

  • He spent one night in a tub filled with ice to see how it felt to be in the ground for a year

  • He was a Jackie Chan Fan, and used his moves in Rapid Fire

  • Every night after filming The Crow he would go to the local gym--prop scars still attached, and brag about how many times he'd been shot that
    day

  • Brandon reportedly received some $750,000 for The Crow

  • Brandon posed his own death, some say.

  • Brandon died without leaving a will

  • Many of his fans don't believe Brandon's death was accidental  

  • Some believe he's still alive

  • Others believe the whole truth of his death was never revealed

  • Linda Lee Cadwell made a quick settlement with Carolco pictures to keep Brandon's death tape out of the media and to spare herself the
    agony of watching it during a wrongful death trial, she says

  • Brandon was buried in his wedding tuxedo, but Liza did not wear her wedding dress to the funeral==she wore it to the memorial service, the
    day after
    the funeral

  • Brandon issued a formal complaint about the deplorable working conditions on The Crow set

  • The Lee family are on the outs with Linda Lee Cadwell because she auctioned off some of Bruce's and Brandon's stuff and
    didn't share the bread



  • This ain't Elvis, babydoll.
  • The line  "Believe me, nothing is trivial" was not in The Crow script.  The conversation in Albrecht's apartment was ad
    libbed, much of it taken from Earnie Hudson and Brandon Lee's own off-camera musings

  • Brandon Lee's Chinese star sign is The Dragon, and he was born in the last day of the Year of the Dragon

  • Brandon Lee was named after Brandon de Wilde of Shane fame

  • As a boy, Brandon fractured his skull

  • His favorite all time movie was Harold and Maud

  • He used his earnings from Kung Fu: the Movie to buy a 1959 Cadillac hearse

  • He Loved Game Boy, ping pong, rock and climbing

  • Brandon loved riding his bike, and didn't like wearing a helmet

  • Brandon smoked

  • His Jeet Kune Do martial arts training came in handy when he interrupted a burglar in his apartment, said burglar had
    to go to the hospital with broken bones

  • Brandon didn't like dogs, but he and Eliza had two cats, Kato and Mushroom

  • Liza's first impression of Brandon: Arrogant

  • Was disgusted by muscle-bound hulks

  • He was a fledgling but gifted guitarist

  • He once backed his car into oncoming traffic

  • Brandon idolized his famous father, but, because Bruce was always working, he led a sad childhood
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  • When he was around 12 years old he bred mice. He would breed up to 50 of them and then sell them to nearby pets¹ shores.  
  • Brandon Lee was due to act in a play in the summer of 1993 called  In Doubt

  • Brandon was an experienced camper and rock climber. He attended an Outward Bound program as a teenager. As an
    adult he continued to
    regularly go camping in the Joshua Tree area in Southern California. He was found of the area, which is famous for it¹s
    boulders and parks
  • Rapid Fire wasn't released until 1993, after Brandon's death
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