Kick me,” says Bruce Lee, dappled by the light of a tree while giving a martial arts lesson in an idyllic garden. The nervous teenager standing opposite kung fu’s greatest icon in Enter the Dragon (1973) is Stephen Tung Wai, who was brought on to the production by his former Peking Opera school classmate, the stuntman Lam Ching-Ying, who would later star in Tung’s directorial debut Magic Cop (1990).
“Lam Ching-Ying had worked with Bruce Lee on The Big Boss [1971], and after he came back he was full of high praise for Bruce,” says Tung. “Lam Ching-Ying and I shared the same master; he was my senior, and I was shocked because I’d never heard Lam Ching-Ying praise someone like that before. At the time, I didn’t know that working with Bruce Lee would turn out to be so significant, but after Bruce Lee passed away, I felt lucky to have done a scene with him. It was only one day of shooting, but because of that scene, people remember me, so I feel very lucky.”…