MARCH 16 — While the world now owns Michelle Yeoh and what she represents, Malaysians continue to grapple with what her career constitutes for them. Both the “Yes, Oh Yes,...
MARCH 16 — While the world now owns Michelle Yeoh and what she represents, Malaysians continue to grapple with what her career constitutes for them.
Even among the men. Russell Crowe before his two Oscars, appeared among others in the famous Australian TV series Neighbours and still had time to kick Vietnamese youths as a skinhead in Romper Stomper, before being introduced to American audiences in LA Confidential. So, it was not a case of Yeoh bypassing Malaysia to fame, rather Yeoh could have only realised her dreams in the ethnic Chinese spaces of Hong Kong, Taiwan or China.
In Yeoh’s case in the 1980s, her beauty and obvious charms were inadequate for Malaysian screens but even without being able to write or read in Chinese or speak Cantonese well she was more than a potential for Hong Kong moviegoers.
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