Mike Moh will play the legendary Bruce Lee in Quentin Tarantino‘s now-filming Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, TheWrap confirms. The site notes that the casting is fitting, because Moh has honored Lee in YouTube videos (see below) and a tweet last month on the 45th anniversary of Lee’s death.
“It’s been 45 years since this man passed,” tweeted Moh, who is best known for playing Triton on Marvel’s “The Inhumans.” “#brucelee has inspired me in so many ways… Martial arts, acting, his philosophies on life. But look at the loving way he looked at his children. I know the exact feeling he felt RIP Bruce. Walk on”
The appearance is likely to be brief, explains the site. For a brief time after the murders of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), and some of their closest friends, director Roman Polanski very wrongly believed that Bruce Lee may have killed them.
The film has been referred to as a Pulp Fiction-like tapestry of stories filled with characters around LA in the summer of 1969, before the Manson murders.
The two lead characters are Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbor… Sharon Tate (Robbie).
It’ll be released July 26, 2019.