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Bruce Lee did a majority of his own stunts while filming fight sequences for The Green Hornet
"There’s a lot of training involved."
As a professional martial artist and a trained actor to boot, there was little need for a stunt double when Bruce Lee was on the set of The Green Hornet.
“I do three fourths of the fights on The Green Hornet,” said Lee during an interview with The Post-Standard. “I teach black belt karate. Even my wife is pretty good at it. There’s a lot of training involved.”
Though he played Kato in ABC’s action series, Lee also dedicated much of his time to martial arts and trained fellow celebrities like Chuck Norris and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“It’s when you strive to be mental that you goof up,” said the actor. “When you consciously analyze your breathing, you are in trouble. You concentrate on the impact, more speed with power. The idea of Gung-Fu is to help your opponent destroy himself.”
Though born in America, Lee began his film career in Hong Kong, starring in movies like The Kid alongside his father, Lee Hoi-chuen. “I was born in San Francisco,” said the actor. “My father came from Hong Kong and was an actor in Chinese Opera. At three months, I returned to Hong Kong and was raised there. That’s where I learned English the British way. In 1939 came the first opportunity to come to America.”
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