Dinner With Diana Lee Inosanto (Part 1): Growing Up With Martial Arts

Diana may have still been feeling the effects of jet-lag from her trip to Italy, but it didn’t keep her warm and engaging personality from shining through during dinner. In fact, Diana later told us that you could blame “not enough coffee” as the reason for calling noted screenwriter Stirling Silliphant “Sterling Silver,” but since it’s a funny fopaux her reaction was “so I injected some humor, leave it!” So we did… In Part 1, Diana talks about her background, martial arts in film, her father Dan Inosanto, her godfather Bruce Lee, John Landis, the deaths Brandon Lee and Vic Morrow, and the importance of safety on film sets.