Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is filled with affection for ’60s Tinseltown, but one real-life character was handled conspicuously less reverentially than others. Critics have argued that Bruce Lee, the movie's only character of color, is depicted as an arrogant windbag, and implausibly equaled in a fight by Brad Pitt’s anonymous, aging stuntman. And in an interview, Michael Moh, who portrayed the iconic actor and martial artist, shared his thoughts on the depiction of his real-life idol.

Moh said that he’d had some initial concerns about the portrayal. "I'm not going to tell you what the original script had exactly, but when I read it, I was so conflicted because he’s my hero," he told the website Birth. Movies. Death. "Bruce in my mind was literally a God."