Shang-Chi Star Michelle Yeoh Reveals The Movie That Inspired Her Career
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star, Michelle Yeoh, has revealed the movie that greatly inspired her remarkable film career. The famed Hong Kong action star has had a long memorable career that shows no signs of slowing anytime soon. She can soon be seen in the upcoming film, Everything Everywhere All At Once, a sci-fi action thriller about Evelyn Wang (Yeoh), who discovers that she has the ability to tap into the memories and skills of different versions of herself from alternate realities. The highly anticipated film recently premiered at the SXSW film festival and will be released in theaters on March 25.
Born in Malaysia in 1962, Yeoh started her career in dance and beauty pageants before switching over to film in the mid-1980s. Although Yeoh never received any formal martial arts training, she became known for her work as an action star in Hong Kong martial arts films, such as The Heroic Trio, Butterfly and Sword, and Tai Chi Master, a film in which she played opposite Kung Fu great, Jet Li. She soon gained the attention of Hollywood and was cast as a «Bond Girl» in Pierce Brosnan's second outing as the secret agent James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies. From then on, she secured roles in such hits as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, and the Marvel smash hit, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
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In a recent Deadline video series, Yeoh reveals a film that greatly influenced her to start a career in acting. She explains that she has always had a love for the movies, ever since she was a kid where she visited the cinema in Malaysia on outings with the family. She would get lost in grand sweeping
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