A 245-Pound European Champion Called Bruce Lee "Puppet Theatre" on Live TV | No One Expect THIS

Hong Kong. December 9th, 1971. A small television studio at the top of the CTV building in Kowloon. A thirty-one-year-old actor in a black turtleneck sits down opposite the most respected broadcaster in Canada for what will become one of the most famous television interviews of the century. The reel the world has seen for over fifty years ends at twenty-two minutes. The taping did not. Three weeks earlier, a French sports weekly ran an interview with a two-hundred-and-forty-five-pound undefeated European full-contact karate champion named Marcel Vasseur, then on a five-city Asian tour. Vasseur had called Bruce Lee's work "good puppet theatre from Oran." Pierre Berton read the translation on a Monday morning. By that afternoon, he had invited Vasseur to join the Wednesday taping — as an unannounced second guest. Bruce Lee did not know he was coming. Neither did anyone else. What Berton also did not tell Bruce was that a third man had flown in from Los Angeles that morning. A four-time American karate champion and a private training partner of Bruce Lee for three years. Chuck Norris. This is a dramatized retelling of what may have happened after the cameras that made the famous Pierre Berton interview kept rolling, based on the era, the personalities and the traditions involved. It explores what happens when a lifetime of certainty meets an inch of air and a bow deeper than the one that started it. Bruce Lee | Pierre Berton | Chuck Norris | The Lost Interview | Hong Kong 1971 | One Inch Punch | Martial Arts History | Bruce Lee Real Story | Enter the Dragon | Full Contact Karate | Kung Fu | Martial Arts Legends | Bruce Lee Interview | Bruce Lee Legacy | Cross Style Martial Arts