Stars 5 incredible facts about the life of Michelle Yeoh – the star of the movie “Everywhere and at once” and the winner of the “Oscar”

In 1983, when she was 21 years old, Michelle participated in the Miss Malaysia pageant and was able to win the title. Moreover, after the future actress went to represent her native country at the Miss World contest in London. By the way, it was participation in modeling competitions that brought her to the cinema. They paid attention to the magnificent girl and invited her to star in a commercial with Jackie Chan, well, everything was spinning there.

But she refused the role. The actress was invited to the continuation of the cult film for the role of Seraphim, but she could not participate, as she was already busy with other filming. That role, by the way, turned out to be patient. It was initially written for Jet Li, but he demanded too high a fee, then the character was recast as a woman under Michelle’s direction, and finally the job went to Collin Chow, also known as Sing Ngai.

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Given the hype around the movie “Everything everywhere, at once”, it may seem that Michelle was just waiting for a decent project in her life, but this is not the case at all. In 2000, she acted in many famous films. For example, she played in Ang Lee’s film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, and the role of the geisha Mameha in the film adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha by Rob Marshall. Even then she was called the “Queen of Asia”.

Graceful dancing and hard-hitting martial arts techniques – can one imagine combining these disparate talents? Yes! And this is Michelle Yeoh. In general, she wanted to connect her life with dance and even entered the Royal Academy of Dance in London, but due to an injury she was forced to quit ballet. But her skills came in handy. Although he never specifically trained in martial arts, at the beginning of his career he acted a lot in Hong Kong action films and even did stunts there himself, relying only on his dance training. And she succeeded tremendously, competing on the screen in the films “Police Story 3: Super Cop” and “Super Cop 2” with Jackie Chan himself. Michelle recalled that the actor even asked her for “grace”, because the actress always surprised with impressive ideas, and Jackie had to overcome her.

“If this continues, I will simply die,” he said.

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In 1997, Michelle played the female lead in Tomorrow Never Dies as Wei Ling, a James Bond girl and Chinese secret service agent. The actress’s partner was Pierce Brosnan.

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