How a 30-Year-Old Mastermind Fooled an Entire High School Into Thinking He Was a Teen—And What It Means for Trust in the Digital Age
McLeod’s feature-length debut My Old School, which premiered at this year’s virtual Sundance, chronicles what happened to Brandon, and although this information is easily searchable online, I’ll slap on a Spoiler Alert here just to be safe.
In 1995, it was uncovered that Brandon Lee wasn’t actually Brandon Lee: He was Brian MacKinnon, a man in his early 30s posing as a new Bearsden student. Remarkably, MacKinnon had gone to that same school when he was younger, going off to Glasgow University to become a physician, only to be bounced because of bad exam scores. Feeling that he’d been wronged, MacKinnon plotted a way to go back to college, hatching a plan to return to Bearsden Academy and get it right this time — only to screw up the whole thing yet again when he failed out of Dundee.
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