“My Old School” tells the bizarre tale of Brian MacKinnon, a k a Brandon Lee, who pretended to be a teen and re-enrolled at his former high school — at age 30.
One day in 1993, the juniors at Scotland’s Bearsden Academy found out they’d have a new classmate. His name was Brandon Lee, and he made quite an entrance: Despite saying he was 15, he looked, and spoke, like an adult man. this week, unravels Lee’s bizarre story with actor Alan Cumming sitting in for the man himself by lip-syncing to Lee’s narration .
Former students at the suburban Glasgow school recall their new classmate’s background, as he told it to them: He’d moved from Canada, where his mother had been an opera singer. After her death, he’d been sent to live with his grandmother in Bearsden. Initially, they say, he was mocked by other students for his strange appearance — he had a gaunt, pale face and a mop of wildly curly hair — and his propensity for answering teachers’ questions in astonishing detail.
He even played the lead role in a school production of “South Pacific,” in which everyone recalls him balking at having to kiss the girl playing his love interest. Cumming, in voiceover, gives a rendition of one telling number from the show: “Younger Than Springtime.”“Brandon Lee” in the school’s production of “South Pacific.”Lee would spend two years at Bearsden and get accepted into Scotland’s University of Dundee before it was revealed in 1995 that all was not what it seemed.
In recent years, the eccentric and reclusive MacKinnon has leaned into conspiracy theorizing. He published ain 2016, in which he claimed he’d been injected with a virus during his first stint in medical school that made him so ill he had to drop out. And he wrote that he’d “survived an assassination attempt from a hit squad” after his secret was outed.
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