Interview with Michelle Yeoh
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AICN has a cool interview with the always classy Michelle Yeoh. I’m loving her description of Jackie:
Moriarty: I think the thing that defines so many of your roles, even when you were doing the earlier action films, there was always sort of a poise about how you handled yourself in the action that was not like many of Jackie’s co-stars. You always seemed his equal in the movies.
Michelle Yeoh: Yes, I think I went out of my way to make sure that always was the case, because you know, I’m a big fan of Jackie’s work, but I said to him that the girls are not always going to be going “Jackie! Jackie! Jackie!” Come on, give me a break. [Laughs] But it is, you know, and I said this to him, that he’s a male chauvinistic pig, you know? He thinks of women that, well, they’re women, they should be protected, they should be in the kitchen, they should look after those things. And I was like, “Darling, you live in the old ages, we have to live in today.”
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10:23 am | Aug 02, 2008Chan’s mother left war-torn China and worked as a maid in Hong Kong; Yeoh’s mother didn’t have to work and had maids. Yeoh came from a rich family, started to study ballet at the age of four, and went to London Royal Academy of Dance. Chan grew up poor with no formal education, and is still semi-illiterate. They have their philosophical differences? No way!!