In the photo we see former NBA basketball player Karim Abdul-Jabbar, acting with Bruce Lee in the movie Game of Death, the last film before Bruce Lee’s untimely death filmed in 1972.
Bruce Lee personally called Jabbar who was his friend and student and convinced him to act in his film, when he was still a student in New York, Abdul-Jabbar became addicted to martial arts and, upon moving to the West Coast, the advice of friends, he asked Bruce Lee for guidance who was already famous at the time.
Bruce accepted, starting an unlikely friendship. By the way, for Jabbar, kung fu was not entertainment, he repeatedly said that the skills and techniques learned on the mat also gave him an advantage on the court.
To film “Game of Death”, the basketball player flew to Hong Kong and spent five days there, which combined both hard work on set and the rest of two very different but very close friends.
During filming the mutual understanding and mutual respect of the two stars was clearly noticeable. Lee was unable to finish the film at the end and was forced to interrupt it to shoot the movie “Enter the Dragon”, and then Bruce’s sudden death in 1973 completely turned this from the master’s last painting into an eternal, unfinished sketch.
After Bruce’s death, Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse was tasked with finishing the film using stunt doubles and a new script. Its version was released in 1978, five years after the protagonist’s death.
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