Growing up in Bruce's shadow wasn't always easy for the younger Lee. As a child, Brandon was about to sign up with a local martial-arts studio...until he noticed a large poster of his dad on the wall. Brandon ran from the dojo in tears. Later, as a teenager, he was kicked out of two different high-schools (once after an "altercation" with the vice-principal) and dropping out of a third. After giving up on high school, Lee took some time to clear his head and spent a year hitchhiking around the United States in '82 before giving high school one last shot by writing and passing a high school equivalency test.