Bruce Lee Podcast

#206 Flowing with Bao Nguyen

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Synopsis

On this week’s episode of the Bruce Lee Podcast, Shannon engages in conversation with Vietnamese American filmmaker Bao Nguyen. She first met Bao when she went to see the directorial debut of his documentary film Live From New York about Saturday Night Live in 2015. Bao was wanting to make a documentary about Bruce Lee way back then and they began talking about that possibility. One thing led to another and that project stalled out over time, as projects do, and Shannon wasn’t sure they would ever work together. But Bao’s passion for the subject matter and his tenacity to find a way to get it done, led to the creation of an ESPN 30 for 30 film called, none other than, Be Water. Bao interviewed Shannon for the project and asked her to read some of her father’s quotes throughout the film, but this film was all his vision. And the end result is beautiful. In this episode Shannon and Bao talk about how they became better friends as the film was taking shape, his be like water journey through the making of the fil