2’, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and the superhero film ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’.Īs the race for 95th Academy Awards draws to a close, Yeoh already boasts of a Golden Globe Award, an HCA award and an SGA award for her terrific work in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.Anything, everything and something play so many roles in the English language, I sometimes think of them as members of a small acting troupe. The actress then went on to star in many successful movies such as ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny’, which was the sequel to ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
Yeoh played the role of biologist, who is entrusted with taking care of the ship’s ‘oxygen garden’.įour years after her appearance in ‘Sunshine’, Yeoh starred in two big films in 2011 – the British biographical film ‘The Lady’, in which she essayed the role of the Burmese politician, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi – besides lending her voice to the character of Soothsayer in ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’.
‘Sunshine’ showcased a futuristic premise of the year 2057 and told the story of a group of astronauts who are on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun. The same Danny Boyle would go on to win the Oscar for Best Director for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. In 2007, she starred in the Danny Boyle directed science fiction psychological thriller film, ‘Sunshine’. However, as fate would have it, despite being the best martial arts actress, Yeoh missed out on the part, her biggest strength – a destructive infallible female actress became the unsurmountable roadblock as Tarantino wanted to cast an actress, who would take the viewers by surprise, someone who gives an impression of a reticent damsel in distress, someone like Uma Thurman, she had been in distress in the famous ‘adrenaline shot directly to the heart’ scene in the 1994 Tarantino classic ‘Pulp Fiction’ and that sealed the deal for her. In 2002, Yeoh produced her first film, ‘The Touch’, through her own production company Mythical Films.Įlsewhere, somewhere around 2003, Quentin Tarantino, who worked in a video parlour during his teens and had access to the best of films from across the world, started working on an American martial arts film which is now etched in the hearts of cinema lovers as ‘Kill Bill’. ‘Crouching Tiger…’ was the first foreign-language film to break the $100 million mark in the United States at a strong $128 million. The film was a multinational venture and Yeoh, along with her fellow cast members, moonwalked through the wide opened gates of the American film market. Three years after that came the Wu Xia film ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ directed by Ang Lee, in which she essayed the role of a female warrior and the head of a private security company. Her co-star, Pierce Brosnan, even referred to her as a ‘female James Bond’ in reference to her combat abilities. Naturally, the stakes were high but the film paid off, it grossed over $333 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1997 and even earned a Golden Globe nomination.īut the film remains a cultural turning point in Western cinema as it introduced Yeoh to a larger set of audience, who were just dumbfounded with the action that Yeoh put up on screen.
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Broccoli, who was involved with the series’ production since its inception.īroccoli was the producer who not just laid the seeds for one of the most iconic film series in the history cinema, but also transformed the franchise from its low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas. The film was the first one in the series to be made after the death of Albert R. Then came 1996 when she bagged a role in ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’, the 18th film in the ‘James Bond’ series.
Her works have even inspired the cinema great Quentin Tarantino, who is a self-admitted Michelle Yeoh ‘superfan’. By the early 1990s, Yeoh was a star of Hong Kong cinema.
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