Shannon Lee is keeping her father’s legacy alive in a new action series.

Shannon was only 4 years old when her father, legendary martial artist and action star Bruce Lee, died.

In 1993, about 20 years after Bruce’s death, the Lee family suffered another tragedy when Shannon’s older brother, Brandon, died following an on-set accident during the filming of the cult action horror film The Crow.

Being the only one of Bruce’s children who is still alive, Shannon is determined to keep her father’s legacy alive for generations to come through various projects. One of them is Warrior, a new action series exclusively available on Cinemax.

Warrior is not just a regular action series. It took almost 50 years in the making because it is based on Bruce’s original script and, in addition, it almost lost its chance to make its way to the small screen due to the reluctance of the Hollywood elite back in the 1970s.

“At the time, the obstacle was that the studio just did not believe in casting a Chinese lead for American TV shows and so my father was not able to get the project off the ground at the time,” Shannon said during a recent phone interview.

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