“I always wanted to be a female James Bond!“, explains Michelle Yeoh, who has been climbing all levels of cinema since 1984. The star of kung-fu movies in Hong Kong rose to worldwide fame with her role as this Chinese spy allied with agent 007. Bond, released in 1997 in this eighteenth installment of the saga. Pierce Brosnan) discovers that news channel boss Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) wants to provoke a war between the United Kingdom and China to expand his empire in Asia. However, Miss Carver (Teri Hatcher) is a former member of Bond’s villain, Jealous, he launches murderers after him, and 007 desperately needs his sister’s fighting skills.
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“Wai Lin proudly proclaims Michelle Yeoh, the first James Bond girl to be her equal and able to compete with her mentally and physically! Doing my own stunts gives me a great sense of accomplishment. The actress did ballet at the age of 4, then squash, swimming and martial arts. However, insurance companies and director Roger Spottiswoode banned him from filming the escape scene on a motorcycle on the streets of Saigon. Replacing his substitutes Wendy Leech and Pierce Brosnan, French pilot Jean-Pierre Goy made an incredible jump between two five-story buildings atop a helicopter. Even if the helicopter is a simple cabin that is lifted by a hydraulic arm and the wings are added in 3D, it is a success. Pierce injured himself at the scene of a fight and had eight stitches on the left side of his face. When he recovered, only his right profile was taken in close-up.
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The actress really appreciated Michelle Yeoh, who humorously described the escape scene: Being handcuffed to someone on set is great when you have a gentleman like Pierce… On the other hand, he did not have much sympathy for Teri Hatcher, who played in the series. Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. One day his partner arrives three hours late. The fiery Irishman screams in anger, and Teri explains that she only discovered she was pregnant that morning. Brosnan apologizes to him. He will then say: My character was so artificial that I took no pleasure in embodying it.”, and she will claim to have accepted the role of this James Bond girl to satisfy a fantasy of her husband! If that’s how the actor handled the script, screenwriter Bruce Feirstein was right about the growing power of the news channels: Words are today’s guns and television satellites are the new cannons. With all due respect to Teri Hatcher, tomorrow never dies It became a hit thanks to the Yeoh-Brosnan duo. While it grossed $333 million, its $100 million budget has already been paid off with product placements, a first in cinematic history.
Tomorrow never dies, Sunday 16 July at 21:10 on France 2
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Source: Programme Television
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