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Michelle Yeoh is seen as an outstanding female stuntwoman in Hong Kong - 1984s~1997s

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Michelle Yeoh is seen as an outstanding female stuntwoman in Hong Kong - 1984s~1997s

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Michelle Yeoh made her debut as a leading lady in a Hong Kong police action film, playing the role of an athletic inspector. Michelle Yeoh said in an interview that the exciting fight stunts in the film earned her applause from the audience.

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“Yes, Madam" epic martial arts Cynthia Rothrock! She's a total badass #MartialArts #CynthiaRothrock

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Michelle Yeoh is back as a cop in a police action film. The film was a huge box office success and Michelle Yeoh made a comeback after her divorce with her awesome fighting stunts in the film.

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Michelle Yeoh stars in a martial arts film. Although the film received mixed reviews, Michelle Yeoh's film showed her excellent martial arts moves.

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Interview with Michelle Yeoh at Town & Country

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Interview with Michelle Yeoh at Town & Country

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Michelle Yeoh shows how hard she works through her memories of her past acting career. Michelle Yeoh's image as an independent woman is seen through her sharing of her understanding of her feelings about life now.

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MMichelle Yeoh, a skilled agent of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, has entered the Hollywood limelight.

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Michelle Yeoh Becomes a Hollywood Action Star - 1997s~2005s

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Michelle Yeoh Becomes a Hollywood Action Star - 1997s~2005s

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The film won several international awards and nominations, and Michelle Yeoh won a BAFTA 2000 nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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Michelle Yeoh shows a feminine side to her fierce, action-packed screen persona in Memoirs of a Geisha.

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Michelle Yeoh Hollywood professional actress - 2005s~2020s

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Michelle Yeoh Hollywood professional actress - 2005s~2020s

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Michelle Yeoh on representing people of colour and women

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Michelle Yeoh on representing people of colour and women

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What Michelle Yeoh Taught Me About Motherhood

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Michelle Yeoh stars as the aging mother who becomes the hero. Showcasing Chinese mothers, a group long left out of the Hollywood limelight.

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At a stage that for most actresses signals the beginning of the end, it's perhaps no accident that Michelle Yeoh is reaching even higher heights, 40 years into her career. There's something about Yeoh as Mother that transcends, in every shading and variation: cool and elegant in Crazy Rich Asians, imperious and twisted in Star Trek: Discovery, harried and bewildered in Everything Everywhere All at Once. In every version she is elementally familiar, particularly to my generation. She resembles the mother we have or the one we want, the kind we fear or crave, or both.

Four years ago, after I got engaged initially without my parents' blessing, I wrote about how Crazy Rich Asians brought painful clarity to my own standoff, caught between romance and family. Much of my epiphany was fueled by Yeoh's exquisite portrayal of Eleanor Young - her unyieldingly lofty standards for her child's welfare, and the child's realization that there could be no happy ending without her as part of it. When I interviewed Yeoh for THR's 2018 cover story on the film, she told me she only took the role once assured that it would not play into one-dimensional stereotypes. In less capable and intuitive hands, Eleanor would be the story's easy villain. Instead, when I took my parents to see the film on opening weekend, my mom left the theater raving about the character's wisdom and strength and (to my chagrin at the time) found validation in their shared perspective. EEAAO 's downtrodden laundromat owner Evelyn Wang couldn't be more different from one-percenter Eleanor, but in her tenacity and insistence on chasing her daughter to the ends of the multiverse - chasms of culture and generations and literal rocks be damned - I saw yet another dimension of my dynamic with my mother playing out onscreen.

Both my mom and Yeoh exude a formidable presence that belies their petite stature, and although I've never witnessed the former deliver a literal beatdown to anyone, she has always been fearless in a confrontation and wields words as skillfully as a swordswoman does her saber. Her fortitude, both physical and mental, is superhuman, a 90-pound septuagenarian devoting her retirement years to caregiving for my father, who has Parkinson's. Despite that work's punishing demands, she has not sacrificed her style and qi zhi - a refined, graceful temperament - a quality that Yeoh, even as frumpy Evelyn, also radiates. Neither woman has ever been caught dead in a short, curly Asian mom perm.

In Yeoh's portrayals, exacting expectations - whether a devastatingly deployed "You will never be enough" or a clumsily blurted "You are getting fat" - are contextualized as springing forth from a deep, nearly inexpressible reservoir of love and concern for one's child. She does justice to real Asian mothers, portraying characters who serve as reparations for the racist, maligning damage that Amy Chua's Tiger Mom trope has implanted in the American imagination.

Last year, I seized the opportunity to pitch a feature long on my bucket list: a cover profile of Yeoh, one that would explore the woman behind the legend. She'd long been a fixture in Asian news media, but at the time I had read little of her personal life in Western articles. In particular, I was curious about her ability to channel, with such uncanny precision and authenticity, the complex and sometimes paradoxical qualities of our own real-life mothers. A quick web search confirmed that she has no biological or adoptive children of her own, and a deeper crawl through old clips surfaced references to that being a matter of fate not choice.

Another reason for my fixation with the motherhood angle is that I'd learned last January that I was pregnant. Although the pregnancy was welcome news for my husband and me, suddenly being faced with the impending reality of a new identity ushered new anxieties to the surface. "I don't know how to be a mom! I barely know how to take care of myself," I wailed one night, huddled next to my mother in her bed during a visit home one weekend. She spooned her tiny body around mine as she reassured me that, like all women, I would rise to the occasion when the time came.

The day before my interview with Yeoh, I had my first ultrasound appointment. A technician swept me with a probe as an image of my uterus - silent and still as a tomb - popped up on the monitor. "There's a lot of blood," she said, pointing to the cloudiness onscreen. My OB said I could take a week to decide whether to go the medical or surgical route (and this was February 2022, four months before I fully realized what a blessing it is to live in California, where such potentially life-saving options remain available). On our way out, I felt like apologizing to everyone in the clinic for my perceived failure.

I never made it back there with my decision. A few days later, my brother called at 2:30 in the morning: "Mom had an accident." She had spoken of increased dizziness over the past week, which we all chalked up to the strain of solo caregiving. Apparently she had gotten up in the middle of the night, lost her balance and struck her head hard on some furniture. Her second call was to 911. The first was to my brother, to tell him to come over and stay with my dad so that he wouldn't wake up in the morning frightened and alone.

My husband, Mike, and I arrived in Orange County at 4 a.m. My mother was already at the hospital, a few drops of blood in the doorway leaving a telltale trace of where she had been wheeled out by the paramedics. For the next week, Mike lived mostly in the kitchen, prepping, serving and cleaning up after my father's meals, while I was on nurse duty, getting him out of bed, showered, dressed and shuttled around the house. At night, I lay in my mother's bed soundlessly mouthing a desperate prayer to the heavens: "Not like this, God. Don't take her like this."

During that time, I experienced occasional cramping that felt like my body attempting to turn itself inside out. One afternoon, I passed my embryo in the restroom. Mike and I stared silently into the bowl, wondering if the worst was over. I fished out the mass (we were afraid of clogging the toilet if we flushed it), wrapped it in a bag and left it on the floor of the garage, next to the recycling. When I went back later to check on laundry, Mike followed and we clung to each other and finally sobbed, our dashed hopes wadded up in bloody tissue on the concrete a few feet away. We stole fleeting seconds of private grief before domestic duties again called, and I wondered if this was what it was to be a parent: sublimating oneself in service of others, finding reserves of strength to do what needs to be done.

After my mother was discharged with six staples in her head, the challenge became restraining her from getting back to household chores right away. Mike returned to L.A. for work, and I attempted to multitask remotely, ostensibly reporting the Yeoh story from my parents' kitchen table but in reality spending my days managing health care and researching long-term caregiving options. (Daniels, EEAAO 's directors, graciously rescheduled after I ghosted them during our originally slated interview.)

Over the next couple of weeks, my feature story slowly came together, mostly at night as I typed away on the futon in my parents' study. Revisiting Yeoh's stunt-work-inflicted close call with permanent injury and death in the late '90s, I thought about my mother in the next room, determined to heal her body and live another day. But what was most revelatory for me was relating to Yeoh myself. For the first time, I saw her not just as a mother figure but as a woman who had to reconcile her own hopes with reality, who wanted to be a mother and fully pursued every means to that dream. In her I found comfort and solidarity, and alongside my friends' and other women's courageous disclosures of their fertility journeys, I could grieve my failed pregnancy without entertaining thoughts of shame.

"I love kids. I really wanted to have a family, but unfortunately that did not smile upon me," Yeoh told me during our interview. "It's tough when every month ... this is the one thing I want. We were doing all those [fertility treatments]. As women, up to a certain age, you can do it. Then, you have to at some point accept reality."

I couldn't help but feel grateful yet apologetic that this particular universe, in denying Yeoh her personal desire, transformed her into a conduit of motherhood not only to those directly touched by her maternal nature - she is "Mama Michelle" or "Popo Michelle" to her goddaughter's child, friends, family and colleagues - but also to generations of strangers who have found comfort and resonance in her portrayals of motherhood. "She has a very familial energy," EEAAO co-writer/director Daniel Kwan told me. "She's very nurturing and can transplant herself in any situation and she's suddenly the auntie or the mom taking care of everyone."

It feels unfair to ask any woman, even an internationally famous movie star who has agreed to an on-the-record interview, to share such a specific and personal pain as infertility, so I briefly told Yeoh about my own experience, just to make the exchange feel more like a conversation between fellow humans.

"But you are still ...?" asked Michelle Yeoh, ever the nurturer.

I nod. "We're still trying."

"That's good. I think you have to try until you can't."

And I did. Around Thanksgiving, both of my parents got COVID, so Mike and I again relocated to Orange County for a few weeks. It was a mirror bookend to the beginning of the year, with a few significant differences. This time, we were more practiced at working together as care providers - and I was accompanied by a new presence, one with a strong heartbeat and an equally strong kick. As Yeoh makes history with her Oscar nomination for EEAAO, I am now in my third trimester. I know firsthand that the future holds no guarantees. But if I've learned nothing else this past year from the strong women in my life - the sorority of infertility and pregnancy loss, our communal mother Michelle Yeoh, my own mom - it's that you keep trying while you can. And even if you reach the limits of time and your physical body, being a mother is so much more than a biological capacity. It's a posture - one of persevering, generous love.

This story first appeared in the March 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.

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What Michelle Yeoh Taught Me About Motherhood

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THR's senior inclusion editor reflects on how the life and roles of the 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Oscar nominee have helped guide her own personal journey, both as a daughter and as a hopeful parent: "There's something about Yeoh as Mother that transcends."

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Michelle Yeoh's entire acting career in retrospect

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Michelle Yeoh's entire acting career in retrospect

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As this article lists Michelle Yeoh has tried her hand at acting in a wide variety of genres after doing Memoirs of a Geisha. She is no longer limited to being an action star, but has moved closer to being a more well-rounded actress.

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How Michelle Yeoh conquered the universe(s) in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’— and channeled an entire career all at once.

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Michelle Yeoh Speaks at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards

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Michelle Yeoh Speaks at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards

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Michelle Yeoh responds directly and dominantly in the face of impolite rush music. This bossy image is the same as she has been portraying on screen.

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Michelle Yeoh to Golden Globes rush-off: ‘Shut up, I can beat you up’ | Page Six

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Michelle Yeoh played a Chinese mother in this film. She won several international awards for this film. Michelle Yeoh became one of the icons of people of colour and women in Hollywood.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once Video Review

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Everything Everywhere All At Once hits theaters on March 25, 2022. Review by Rafael Motamayor. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a complex film that encompasses a variety of subjects, but it does justice to each of them with a carefully written script, marvelous performances, and a healthy dose of bizarre humor to counter its bleak story.

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Michelle Yeoh won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (2023)

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Michelle Yeoh won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (2023)

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Michelle Yeoh, in her acceptance speech, said "And ladies, don't let anyone ever tell you you are past your prime." She demonstrated the confidence of a woman who has fought her way through life.

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For the first time in its 95-year history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded the Oscar for best actress in a leading role to an Asian woman. Michelle Yeoh accepted the Oscar for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, in which she plays Evelyn Wang, the Chinese first-generation immigrant owner of a laundromat around whom the film's absurdist multiverse revolves.

Yeoh received a lengthy standing ovation as she walked to the podium to accept her award.

Brandishing the Oscar statuette, she said, "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility.

"And ladies, don't let anyone ever tell you you are past your prime."

She dedicated her win to her mother, whom she called a "superhero."

The Malaysian-born Yeoh became a star of Hong Kong cinema before coming to global attention in films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Tomorrow Never Dies and Crazy Rich Asians. This was her first Oscar nomination.

Speaking to All Things Considered's Ailsa Chang last April, Yeoh said she saw a cultural moment where Asians could finally find a larger voice in Hollywood and society.

"We just have to rock the boat and say, look at us," she said. "Give us a chance - because guess what? We exist in your society. We are part of the society and very, very much an intricate part of this whole community. This is the only way we will get more opportunities - if we fight for it and no longer be able to say, OK, I'll turn the other cheek. Dang - no more turning the other cheek."

Before tonight's ceremony, Yeoh's work in Everything Everywhere All at Once garnered her many accolades, including a Golden Globe, an Independent Spirit Award, several local Film Critics Awards, a SAG Award, and nominations for a Critics' Choice Award and a BAFTA Award.

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Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian woman to win best actress Oscar

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The Malaysian-born actor made history by winning the Academy Award for best actress in a leading role for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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This article is about celebrities defending the representation of the country, race, sexual orientation, gender, etc... Michelle Yeoh defends the identity of the race and the woman she represents.

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 Star Studies : A Critical Guide(Shingler，2012)

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 Star Studies : A Critical Guide(Shingler，2012)

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Celebrities need to rely on interviews to help promote their work and get good business. As Michelle Yeoh is increasingly working on more and more films in Hollywood, she is taking part in more and more interviews.

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Michelle Yeoh becomes United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador

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Michelle Yeoh becomes United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador

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Award-winning actor Michelle Yeoh has taken on another role, in partnership with UNDP, to raise awareness and mobilize support for the Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2016 to end poverty in all its forms by the year 2030. The Malaysian-born film star was appointed UNDP Goodwill Ambassador on 15 March 2016.

After experiencing firsthand the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal in April 2015, Yeoh visited the country as UNDP Goodwill Ambassador on the first anniversary of the disaster.

Shining a spotlight not only on recovery efforts but also the critical need for disaster preparedness, she said: "My terrifying experience as the earth rattled made me realize the crucial importance of preparing for disaster long before it happens."

In May 2016 Yeoh teamed up with UNDP's first-ever Animal Ambassadors, two panda cubs, to kick off the Pandas for the Global Goals campaign.

"I have joined forces with these two adorable, fuzzy panda babies to get the public interested and engaged in supporting the Global Goals--because who doesn't love pandas?" said Yeoh during her visit at the Chengdu Panda Base. "Our aim is to show that each and every one of us can play an active part in reaching a globally shared vision of a future without poverty, inequality or climate change."

The internatially acclaimed actor has starred in 30 films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Mummy, and the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, but is best known for her role in the multiple Academy Award-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. She also stars in the highly anticipated Star Trek: Discovery television series on CBS.

Yeoh's partner, Jean Todt, president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, is a United Nations Special Envoy for Road Safety.

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In her role as Goodwill Ambassador, Michelle Yeoh focuses on empowering the most vulnerable, including women, those living in poverty and those facing disasters and crises.

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"The empowerment of people comes from knowledge. And knowledge is our key platform. It's very important that people understand the problem because then you can start creating solutions." - Michelle Yeoh"

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In the interview Michelle Yeoh shows how much she cares for the environment. For this reason she wears a bracelet in the hope of influencing people to take care of the planet.

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Star Trek: Discovery star Michelle Yeoh is setting her sights back on the blue planet, celebrating Earth Day with the launch of the #TogetherBand Life on Land bracelet.

Yeoh told The Hollywood Reporter that working with the UN Development Program, where she serves as a goodwill ambassador, has increased her awareness of how the fashion industry impacts the environment. "Eco-consciousness and fashion are subjects close to my heart, and in fact I have recently - with UNDP - explored how the marriage of sustainability and fashion can lead to better outcomes for our planet," she said, noting that the fashion industry is responsible for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, and it takes up to 2,600 gallons of water to produce just one pair of jeans.

As a result, her style has evolved to incorporate fashion-forward, eco-friendly fabrics to prove that even green fashion can be envy-inducing. "I've even had a bespoke dress made from a fashion house in Italy [Tiziano Guardini] that specializes in smart, renewable production choices, lowering water and carbon output, and the dress looked absolutely fantastic," said Yeoh, emphasizing that communities, conservation groups and the private sector have to come together.

The bracelet is the first in a series from the British sustainable accessories brand Bottletop, which has collaborated with Mulberry in the past, designed to support the UN's sustainable development goals starting with "Life on Land." Yeoh explained the meaning behind the bracelet: "It's about taking urgent action to prevent deforestation and reduce the loss of natural habitats and biodiversity, which are a part of our common heritage and are critical for our future."

There will be 17 bracelets in different colors to correspond with the goals, celebrated with an opening of a pop-up shop in London (in space donated by the royal family, no less) to promote sustainability and offer up a new color drop each month.

The actress said the bracelet goes with her simple style philosophy: to wear what makes her feel good. "This goes for both the red carpet and for film, as the clothes need to tell a story," said Yeoh.

The bracelets also tell a story for each wearer, as they are mix-and-match and correspond to the 17 goals. "It gives the wearer both the freedom to show their support for one goal close to their heart, or more than one simultaneously, particularly if they are complementary goals," explained Yeoh. "I really applaud the diversity of choice the bracelets provide in letting the user show their support, as well as the environmentally sustainable and ethically sourced methods used to create them."

And those are threefold, since the sporty bracelets are made from a combination of recovered ocean plastic and metal melted from illegal firearms and crafted by women who have been rescued from human trafficking. "Seriously, because they are made from special material, which otherwise would be really detrimental to our oceans, to our land, we are helping to make a difference," said Yeoh.

True Cost director Andrew Morgan is creating a series of short films for the launch, and all the profits will go to the World Wildlife Fund's work to protect the Amazon rainforest, which is losing three football fields of forest every minute.

As a bonus, the bracelets are also buy one, get one free, so Yeoh plans to pass hers along to other influential friends. Who's on her list? None other than her Once a Cop and Kung Fu Panda co-star Jackie Chan.

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Michelle Yeoh Celebrates Earth Day With #TogetherBand Launch

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'Star Trek: Discovery' actress Michelle Yeoh is setting her sights back on the blue planet, celebrating Earth Day with the launch of the #TOGETHERBAND Life on Land bracelet.

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Michelle Yeoh joins the fight against AIDS

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In Michelle Yeoh's interview, Michelle Yeoh demonstrates the importance she places on AIDS and science.

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Michelle Yeoh

October 2009-Michelle Yeoh is recognized internationally for her work as a film star, action heroine, and humanitarian. Acclaimed for her portrayals of strong female characters and for performing her own stunts in such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, she has long been involved with Asian and global charities, among them amfAR, for which she serves as an ambassador. Yeoh was born in Malaysia of ethnic Chinese parents and is now based in Hong Kong.

TREAT Asia Report: You've been involved in the fight against AIDS for many years as a patron of AIDS Concern Hong Kong and as an amfAR ambassador. What convinced you that this issue needed your support?

Michelle Yeoh: I strongly believe in the need to work on behalf of this cause. For women, protecting themselves from HIV/AIDS is a fundamental issue and that convinced me to speak out publicly. I remember when I was first approached to take a public stand against HIV/AIDS-some advised me not to become involved with an issue that was connected with sex and acts that some people felt were shameful. But I was convinced that ignorance and fear can sometimes be more contagious and dangerous than the disease itself.

TA Report: From your perspective, what are the most pressing issues facing Chinese communities, in China and across Asia, when it comes to confronting HIV/AIDS and supporting people living with HIV?

Yeoh: Stigma and discrimination are two of the biggest problems. Families and communities are the heart of Chinese life, but so many times I've seen the stigma of HIV/AIDS break those bonds-discrimination by relatives, neighbors rejecting long-time friends.

One of the most heartbreaking things I've seen in my work on HIV is the stigma HIV-positive children often face in their communities. When people refuse to let their children play with HIV-positive children, or prevent them from attending public school, then it's time for all of us to speak out.

Access to treatment is also critical. China is making a strong effort to provide greater access to treatment, but there are many migrant workers both from China and from other countries who have difficulty accessing free HIV care and medicines.

It is also important to provide social support for people living with HIV. HIV can take a serious toll on so many aspects of life. Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS or whose parents are ill may need help with education fees. Some people with HIV may be unable to work and must rely on others to help provide for their basic needs. Providing social services can make a significant difference in people's daily lives.

"Ignorance and fear can sometimes be more contagious and dangerous than the disease itself."

TA Report: As you mentioned, discrimination and stigma against those living with HIV are widespread, in China and around the world. In your experience, what are the most effective ways to address the lack of knowledge that underpins fear and stigma?

Yeoh: Perhaps because I have lived my life in the public eye, I believe that one of the most powerful ways to combat stigma is to speak out publicly about AIDS. A lot of people don't know the basic facts about prevention, testing, how the virus is transmitted, and why they shouldn't be afraid of someone with HIV. If we bring the subject out into the open, I hope that people will eventually realize that HIV should not be a mark of shame.

China's political and economic leaders have acknowledged the impact of HIV on Chinese society and have taken a meaningful leadership role. The government is committed to expanding treatment and some politicians have publicly embraced people with HIV/AIDS. China's leaders see the epidemic as a human and social development challenge, rather than a moral issue.

Without leadership, it is difficult for a country to make real progress against the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. We need leadership to combat the discrimination that makes it hard for people to seek treatment if they become infected, hold a job, sustain relationships, and live active lives in their own communities.

TA Report: How important is it for a public figure like yourself to speak out about AIDS?

Yeoh: The media is the quickest and most powerful way to speak out. Those of us who have the attention of the media are privileged, and we have the responsibility to put that privilege to good use! I am fortunate because I can draw public attention to HIV/AIDS and help people understand that this is a disease that can be eradicated. This work cannot stop until we have defeated the epidemic on every front around the world.

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An Interview with Michelle Yeoh-Fighting AIDS from the Heart

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Breaking away from the old Bond girl image

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Breaking away from the old Bond girl image

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This article compares the characteristics of ten different Bond girls. It can be seen that Michelle Yeoh's Bond girl breaks away from the vase image of all the previous Bond girls who have to wait for Bond to come to their rescue.Michelle Yeoh's Bond girl is dynamic and she has an even match with Bond.

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Quantum of Solace hits the silver screen on November 17th, marking the sophomore outing for the newly-overhauled James Bond franchise and of Daniel Craig as 007. So it seems apropos at this time to reflect upon all the things we love about the legacy of cinema's greatest gentleman superspy. Presented here and now is the first part of a four part series of top ten lists all devoted to Bond, James Bond. For starters, let's look at the great women behind the great man. Let's look at the ten best Bond Girls... definitely look at the ten best Bond Girls...

10) Octopussy

She's an enigmatic pseudo-villainess who also happens to have her own circus of incredibly limber female acrobats/bodyguards. Octopussy is a Bond Girl who mystifies the audience from the get-go, and Maud Adams plays her with a sort of undefinable allure. She's definitely not the damsel in distress; in fact, she is actually quite the entrepreneur, as she juggles jewel smuggling with steamy nights with 007. What makes her better than the garden variety villainess is that she is more than willing to rectify her mistakes. So when the time comes to get back at Kamal Khan she has no conflict as to who she wants on her side. Do I really have to clarify who?

9) Miss Solitaire from Live and Let Die

The minute Bond steps into Mr. Big's hideout and sees Miss Solitaire, the rhythmic pounding of many a heart could be heard in every movie theater around the world. That was the sound of the world falling in love at first sight with Jane Seymour. The character of Miss Solitaire is an intriguing one, owing to the fact that she is an innocent woman trapped in a den of thieves, bound to a life of premonition through a deck of cards and the horrible fate of never knowing the touch of another, except for the tyrant who keeps her locked away. In the grand scheme of the World of Bond, Solitaire is definitely the princess in the tower waiting for her knight in shining armor. Though calling Bond a knight may be up for debate.

8) Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova from Goldeneye

Natalya is the first great Bond girl of the 90s. Brave, resourceful, and intelligent, she is definitely never content to sit there and wait for Bond to do all the work. Many times, Bond is but a mere blunt instrument compared to Natalya's skills with a computer. She may be a level two computer programmer from an outpost in the middle of nowhere, but that doesn't stop her from being a pivotal contributor to saving the day. While Alec Trevelyan is distracted by Bond, Natalya single-handedly destroys the Goldeneye Satellite. Sorry, Boris, but Natalya is the one who is invincible.

7) Pam Bouvier from License to Kill

Though Natalya was the first great Bond Girl of the 90s, all she did was continue the trend. The last great Bond Girl of the 80s was Pam Bouvier. When we meet her she is an informant working with Felix Leiter to take down Sanchez, a major drug kingpin. When Bond discovers that she's been targeted by Sanchez, he comes to rescue her. Of course it comes as a surprise to him that she really doesn't need saving. Pam Bouvier is tough as nails, with a wicked tongue to boot. She is also an incredibly fine pilot, a skill which saves Bond's life on multiple occasions. As Bond rampages through Isthmus City seeking his vengeance, Pam sticks with him all the way and takes Bond's misogynistic tendencies in stride, knowing that he's gonna be thanking her later.

6) Melina Havelock from For Your Eyes Only

Melina is a fiery half-British/half-Greek heroine driven entirely by revenge for her parents' death, and she's got an arrow with Kristatos's name on it. Carole Bouquet plays Melina, and does so with steely conviction very rarely seen in other Bond Girls. She is eager to be a part of the fight and she proves her worth by showing her lethal skills with a crossbow. So don't be deceived by her dinky yellow car. This is a woman of exceptional skill and determination that can prove to be advantageous in life-or-death situations. Motorcycle assassins, underwater battles, even being served as shark bait - nothing deters her from her pursuit of vengeance. Not even James Bond.

5) Anya Amasova (Agent XXX) from The Spy Who Loved Me

Anya is one of the quintessential Bond Girls for a multitude of reasons. I think the most important reason is the fact that she is avidly independent when it comes to the mission. Upon meeting James Bond, she really has no desire to work with him. When they meet she is quick to distance herself from him at every opportunity. So you can imagine her dissatisfaction when she is ordered by General Gogol to work with Bond, a dissatisfaction which is exacerbated when she discovers that Bond killed the man she loved. Very few times has Bond had to jump through hoops to earn a woman's favor. Where Anya is concerned, he's gonna have to jump through flaming hoops with a skateboard to keep her from killing him when the mission is over.

4) Pussy Galore from Goldfinger

Then again, if you want to talk about a woman Bond has had to jump through hoops for, then Pussy Galore is the living embodiment of Evel Knievel's worst nightmare. When Bond meets her they are on the opposite sides of a mission. She is the personal pilot/confidante of Auric Goldfinger, and Bond is the guy sent by British Intelligence to take him down. So you can imagine Pussy's reluctance about a guy who's eager to halt her dreams of her own personal island with a sign that says "No Trespassing." Pussy is definitely a tough egg to crack, especially since she is proficient in Judo and can teach Bond a trick or two. Naturally, despite claiming to be immune from Bond's charms, she ultimately falls for him and chooses the right side.

3) Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale

She's the money, every penny of it. Vesper is definitely one of the most complicated Bond Girls of the lot. Upon meeting Bond she is naturally dismissive of his flirtatious tendencies and focuses entirely on the mission. When it comes to the bankroll, no one messes with Vesper, but there is still an innocent vulnerability to her. She gets a glimpse of Bond's world as she helps Bond in a life or death brawl with a terrorist. Afterward she is desperate to wash herself clean of what she has witnessed. After Bond wins the money and Le Chiffre is murdered by an unknown savior, Vesper and Bond's love affair is tragically cut short when Vesper is forced to betray Bond. Racked with guilt, Vesper ultimately kills herself. Vesper Lynd is clearly meant to be the first woman Bond ever opened himself to emotionally, and thanks to her, he may never feel the same way about about any one else. Then again...

2) Wai-Lin from Tomorrow Never Dies

Wai-Lin is, without a doubt, one of the most trendsetting heroines, not just in the realm of 007 but in movies in general. Sure, Bond has had encounters with other beautiful female agents, but none have them have ever reached the level of dynamism that Wai-Lin has. When moviegoing audiences watched Wai-Lin take on almost a dozen men in her hideout all by herself, they were taken aback as she heralded a new type of action heroine that had been seldomly seen on this level in American cinema. Now the concept of self sufficient, butt-kicking heroines has become a staple of action movies. Ironically Michelle Yeoh went on to play one to even higher acclaim in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Wai-Lin was the right type of Bond Girl at the right point in action cinema's evolution. All she had to do was upstage Bond in no time flat.

1) Teresa "Tracy" Di Vincenzo from On Her Majesty's Secret Service

After Vesper Lynd you would've thought that Bond would have learned his lesson about surrendering your heart to somebody. Then again, he probably didn't count on meeting Teresa "Tracy" Di Vincenzo. Tracy is an extremely complex character, played with exceptional grace by Emma Peel herself, Diana Rigg. She is reckless, headstrong, and when she meets Bond, suicidal. Bond finds himself to be mystified by her, and is eager to save her from herself. Yet when the situation is dire and Bond is up against the wall, it's Tracy who winds up saving him. After Tracy is captured by Blofeld, Bond wastes no time in returning the favor. In Tracy, Bond finds a kindred spirit which he has long since been lacking, and he has no hesitation in asking her to marry him. Unfortunately, in Bond's world, there are no boundaries, and both Bond and Tracy learn that lesson the hard way.

Honorable Mention: Jinx from Die Another Day

She's a feisty female American agent, and she is practically Bond's equal on all fronts. She's got the moves, she's got the skill, she's got the sexuality. Heck, she's even got the street smarts. The only thing she didn't get is a good Bond film to show off her goods.

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