Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee was saddened to see her father made fun of in “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.” She watched Quentin Tarantino’s latest film on Sunday and found it hard to watch the moviegoers laugh at her dad. “It was really uncomfortable to sit in the theater and listen to people laugh at my father,” she said in an interview with The Wrap.

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In the movie, Brad Pitt’s character, a stuntman named Cliff Booth, recalls fighting Bruce Lee on the set of “The Green Hornet.” Bruce Lee is portrayed as cocky and full of himself. Plus when pressed on whether he could beat up Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) he replies, “I’d make him a cripple.” Booth tells Lee that Ali would beat him up and the two start fighting in a three rounder. Bruce takes the first with a kick but Cliff Booth takes the second by slamming Lee into a car. And the fight is stopped before the third round takes place.

Shannon Lee was not happy about her father being portrayed as this “arrogant a**hole” when he was the furthest from it. To add salt to the wound, she said the movie treated her father poorly just like “white Hollywood” when he was alive.

“I can understand all the reasoning behind what is portrayed in the movie,” Shannon Lee said. “I understand that the two characters are antiheroes and this is sort of like a rage fantasy of what would happen…and they’re portraying a period of time that clearly had a lot of racism and exclusion.

“I understand they want to make the Brad Pitt character this super bad-a** who could beat up Bruce Lee. But they didn’t need to treat him in the way that white Hollywood did when he was alive.”

She added, “He comes across as an arrogant asshole who was full of hot air. And not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to many others.”

She believes all of the hard work dedicated to her father’s legacy and spreading his positive philosophy was “flushed down the toilet in this portrayal” after her father was turned “into this arrogant punching bag.”

Shannon Lee, however, doesn’t hold any grudges with Mike Moh, the actor who played Bruce Lee. She said that he did a good job acting like her father but “was directed to be a caricature.”

Shannon Lee had reservations about “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” when the trailer first came out. She was annoyed that nobody reached out to her to get her input but she hoped that she would like the movie.

Interesting note: Brad Pitt was friends with Bruce Lee’s son Brandon Lee, who told him that he would die young like his father. Brandon Lee passed away a year later at 28-years-old on the set of “The Crow” in a freak accident by an accidental gunshot wound.