The actor, who is now 59, has some light combat duties in Shang-Chi, as well as in another new film, Gunpowder Milkshake, in which she plays one of a trio of veteran assassins. Stunts are still part of her repertoire today. The one-take wonder … being readied for a stunt in Tomorrow Never Dies. Then in a softer voice: “Thank God it was only one.” One stunt finds her flinging two opponents to their doom while hanging upside down from a balcony, the glass panels of which she has head-butted to smithereens. Her work in Yes, Madam! is eye-popping even today, especially the climax in which she sends numerous adversaries (and herself) flying into the air and crashing through glass. Action is more about how you deliver that energy, pushing it forward.” “I just needed to learn to transfer the energy, because a lot of times in dance it’s very inward and contained. She became an actor before she was an action hero but it was in her first fighting role – as a cop on the trail of a microfilm in the 1985 barnstormer Yes, Madam! – that she found what she was looking for: a replacement for the career she’d had to surrender. It took her a moment to realise that they weren’t joking. Her principal explained to her that there were other ways to express physicality beyond ballet. Her doctor asked if she had considered pursuing another discipline. Photograph: Marvel Studios/APīorn Yeoh Chu-Kheng to an affluent Malaysian-Chinese family in Ipoh, Malaysia, Yeoh came to London to study at the Royal Academy of Dance, only to suffer a back injury at the age of 16 that put paid to her dreams of a ballet career. “He insisted on seeing me and sat on two pillows at my feet and recounted my movies frame by frame,” she later said.Īwesome fighter … in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Nor Quentin Tarantino, who rushed to her bedside when she was in a body cast for a dislocated neck and cracked rib sustained after falling 18ft on to her head while filming The Stunt Woman in 1996. And certainly not Oliver Stone, who called her “a woman of elegance and magnificent grace – the young grande dame of Hong Kong cinema”. Not the ones who were first introduced to her in the Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. Nor the ones who flocked to her early Hong Kong action movies with the likes of Jackie Chan and Cynthia Rothrock. Not the millions who gasped as she skipped nimbly up walls and across rooftops in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. There’s no need to point out the error, because it is perfectly true: Yeoh really is an awesome magical kung fu goddess. “Of course, I already knew Awkwafina because we were both in Crazy Rich Asians.” When I mention this, Yeoh thinks Awkwafina made the remark about her. Another character, played by Awkwafina, refers to Ying as “an awesome magical kung fu goddess”. Yeoh plays Ying Nan, a beneficent gatekeeper who lives on the far side of an enchanted bamboo forest. We are discussing her character in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, an outrageously enjoyable new Marvel adventure about a San Francisco parking valet trying to ignore his destiny as a martial arts warrior. T en minutes into my conversation with Michelle Yeoh, there is a misunderstanding.
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