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Michelle Yeoh: Tomorrow Never Dies
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Best known in the West for her role as Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) before her international breakout role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Michelle Yeoh is not your ordinary Bond girl. Her elegant good looks coupled with a killer high kick have made Yeoh one of the most popular...Read More
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Asian action actress Michelle Yeoh is best known for her top sword skills in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and other strong female roles, including one of Bond's feistiest girls in Tomorrow Never Dies. Her most recent role, in Memoirs Of A Geisha - out on DVD - is a departure for her. She plays an elegant geisha in 1930s' Japan.
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Yeoh carries around the basics of martial arts, the leaps, flips, punches, and absorbs a new style with each film. She relished her high-kicking role opposite Pierce Brosnan in "Tomorrow Never Dies," and for "Crouching Tiger," she worked on tai chi.
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Yeoh, whose credits include Tomorrow Never Dies in the James Bond series, has debuted as a producer in her new release The Touch. It was shot on location in Tibet, in western China's Dunhuang and in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao.
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Following the 1994 releases Shaolin Popey 2, Wonder Seven and Wing Chun, Michelle starred in the dramas The Stunt Woman (1996) and The Soong Sisters (1997). Finally, Yeoh was introduced to Western audiences as a Bond Girl in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) opposite Pierce Brosnan and Teri Hatcher.
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Yeoh was put in traction, and it was feared that she would never walk again. Yet within a month, she was back on the set as if nothing happened. The American release of Supercop caught the eyes of Western producers, and soon she was cast opposite Pierce Brosnan in the James Bond-epic Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
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