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‘My Old School’: Alan Cumming And Director Jono McLeod Revisit Hoax Involving Phony 16-Year-Old Schoolboy

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A lot of people, when asked what they would do differently if they could go back in time, insist “I wouldn’t change a thing.” Not Brandon Lee.

In 1993, a 16-year-old boy going by that name enrolled in a Scottish secondary school called Bearsden Academy, located in a tony suburb of Glasgow.

He claimed to have grown up in Canada, the son of a peripatetic opera singer who had been killed in an auto accident. His academic gifts dazzled, even if his social skills didn’t impress so much.

With his precocious intellect, Lee appeared well on his way to achieving his stated goal of getting into medical school. It took more than a year for the truth to come out: “Brandon Lee” was a fiction.

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