John Saxon almost was Kung Fu before David Carradine and Bruce Lee!
For whatever cosmic reason, Mr. Saxon - star of the Oakland-made film God's Ears (for which he was in town to talk about), and Enter The Dragon with Lee - and I just plain hit it off.
We must have talked for almost an hour, and just 21 minutes of that was on camera.
This is just a short post to get the video out there and seen. We covered a ton of ground that will be expanded on later. Some highlights of our talk, include that at 74 years young, he's still working and has starred in 200 film and television properties. Saxon's played in several iconic cult films, from Enter The Dragon to Nightmare On Elm Street.
Saxon was also in Gene Rodenberry's Planet Earth, and came close to being in what was called Star Trek Phase II. And he's got a bunch of funny stories about Bruce Lee that he tells in the video.
But worthy of note, at least to me, is that Mr. Saxon is the second person who played in Enter The Dragon who I've interviewed. The other person is the equally legendary Jim Kelly at San Francisco Wonder Con:
Ms. Saxon said he was picked to play in the TV show called Kung Fu, but could not get out of his contract with Universal to star in the TV medical drama The Bold Ones. We talked openly about his issues with what would have been a white actor playing a role designed for a chinese man.
Check out the video!
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