The actress met Lee on the set of The Wrecking Crew, when he taught karate to the cast. Tate introduced Lee and Polanski in the 1960s. In the film, Lee, who is played by 35-year-old Mike Moh, has a brush with the Manson victims-but, in this case, truth is stranger than fiction.

Lee's relationship with Tate is reexamined in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which comes out Friday. It was an off-hand comment during one of those sessions which led Polanski to incorrectly believe it could've been Lee who committed the mass murders-though it was, of course, the followers of Charles Manson who killed Tate and the others that night. After learning about the glasses at the crime scene, he bought a Vigor lens-measuring gauge, he explains in his memoir R oman by Polanski, which he hoped could help aid in the investigation.Īnd he continued to take self-defense classes with his friend, actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, who was charging nearly $1,000 an hour for lessons at that time. After he returned to the U.S., the crime remained unsolved for months-and Polanski became obsessed with it. Roman Polanski was in London when he found out about the murder of Tate, who he was married to at the time.

In 1969, after the brutal killings of five people, including actress Sharon Tate, at a Benedict Canyon home north of Beverly Hills, the police found a pair of horn-rimmed glasses they believed could belong to the killer.

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