‘He thought women should stay in the kitchen’: The day Michelle Yeoh revealed the action star

Before she rose to international fame with the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and her difficult first steps in Hollywood, actress Michelle Yeoh was a Hong Kong movie star. A period during which he had the opportunity to answer Jackie Chan in the action comedy Police Story 3: Supercop, which was released in cinemas in 1992.

Michelle Yeoh, who recently won an Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere at Once, alongside Jackie Chan, relished the experience, which exposed many of the characters. So when the martial arts legend begged him not to do his own stunts, the actor gently answered him.

“I told him, ‘You’re funny telling me to stop!’ You’re always up to your tricks, you!”she said At the Guardian microphone in 2021. “And then he said to me, ‘The thing is, when you do one thing, I have to do better’. The pressure was on him, poor thing.”

“Is it true that he thinks a woman’s place is more in the kitchen than in action movies?”, then dares to ask a Guardian journalist. And Michelle Yeo replied: “That’s what he thought, yeah, until I hit him back.”

Michelle Yeoh, who voices Ajazor Falcon in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, stars in the series American China, available on the Disney+ platform.

Trailer for Disney+ series “An American from China” by Michelle Yeoh: