He’s the eldest son of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, but Brandon Lee looks like he walked off a 1950s movie set in a new photo spread for Paper magazine.
The 20-year-old model and actor channels his personal style icon James Dean in the latest issue of the magazine, posing shirtless with a cocktail. Dean, who was killed in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24, quickly rose to the top of Hollywood’s A-list in his brief career, appearing in movies like “Rebel Without A Cause”; and “East Of Eden”;. For a self-proclaimed cinephile like Lee, choosing a style role model like Dean seems like a no-brainer.
Photo: Vijat Mohindra/Paper Magazine
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“I like to keep it old school, like Marlon Brando or James Dean. That’s when people stopped being cool… there’s a lot about that era that I love,”; he tells the magazine, appearing in a crisp white shirt and bolo tie, echoing Dean’s look in the Western film, “Giant”;.
Photo: Vijat Mohindra/Paper Magazine
The young star opens up about his love of film, announcing that he watches “five to 10 movies a week.”;
“I’ve always been into film, and I’ve always been into entertainment. I arrived into that world. I thought early on in my life that I would always want to stay away from it, but the older I got the more I loved it,”; he says.
Lee is looking to follow in his mom’s footsteps – literally. He’ll hit the beach in the “Baywatch”; movie alongside Anderson, who will appear in a cameo, rumoured to be a reprisal of her 1990s “Baywatch”; TV character C.J. Parker. “My mom did all that, so it was just cool to be a part of it,”; he says of his appearance in the upcoming film, which hits theatres 28 years after the series first aired on television.
