Remember Yes, Madam Female action lead starring Michelle Yeoh and Cinthea Rothrock. Actions sequences hold up even by today’s standards. Better than SuperCOp. And SuperCop was my introduction to Michelle Yeoh.

@@beplatinum2014 Police Story 3. Let's use this correct name, not American retitle.

Same with Jackie Chan still lookin good.

scott adkins has a show where he interviews stunt people. The actors in the golden age of HK action movies were chosen because they could take punch! It's all very realistic (and painful choreography)

Unlike Chan, Yeoh won a competitive Academy Award.

Well duh not like there's any other gorgeous woman there just her n the whale

It’s amazing from the women who prompt up Women’s empowerment, don’t bring her name up often. I’ve known about this woman since I was a kid, and Them same women label me sexist.

@@BEVERLYPRINCESS90210 😂😂

Trust us, we know who you meant.

There’s no whale here, just two women.

Officially an Oscar nominee, congrats to Michelle!

Officially the first Asian Woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress! HISTORY!!!

already win.

She won Miss Malaysia when she was 20.

I Know !!

Thx.

Cheers! 👍

Yeah that got me confused. The movie came out in 1992, not 1996. What a dumb broad.

@@Religious_man She must have thought, "These American distributors sure are slow. Picking up a movie I did 4 years ago." At this time Miramax (Specifically Dimension Films), New Line Cinema & even these fly by night public domain companies were scooping up Jackie Chan & Michelle Yeoh's back catalog of movies. They were late to the game compared to other countries.

Back then foreign film distribution was slow

Hollywood thinks their movies are the best but never imagined that HK movies are better in the fighting scenes.

How lucky your mom is 🙃❤️

Why did she use the name Khan? Was she married?

@@MetalizedButt it was a stage name my guess is that Khan was more American friendly.

@@machoman1016 She was credited as Michelle Khan in her earlier films. This alias was chosen by D&B Films, who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences.

Why did Rosie call her michelle kwan?

@@leif1075 she was married then. After they divorced she went back to her pre-marrird surname.

She did return in 2011-12 with _The Rosie Show_ .

You're decades too late. We have been watching her shows for 40 years when she was in HK.

Yeoh.

that was her screen name before in some of her earlier films

Khan is not another way of pronouncing 楊, at least not in Mandarin or Cantonese. From Wikipedia: 'She was credited as Michelle Khan in these earlier films. This alias was chosen by D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences. Yeoh later preferred using her real name.'

@@ShaneH I thought he was referring to the figure skater "Michelle Kwan".

Yes she did! Michelle khan was her screen name in her earlier movies/films then changed it to Michelle Yeoh

MrCarlsson86 yes...🤒

@@lovelylady2541 Changed it back.

Because her real name was not easily pronounceable by American audience so the powers in America changed her surname.

she said it again at the end too.

That was her name.

That was her name before and then changed it to Michelle Yeoh. There's a video, she explained how her name changed

@@gandalfs-pants Michelle Khan was her screen name in the early days. She returned to her own surname when she got more clout, I believe.

@@12LittleLittleOnes nah she reverted back to her real name michelle yeoh because when she went back to malaysia, malaysians are not having it XDD it only confuses them making them wonder if she married or sth. So she just went back to using michelle yeoh

The empress was smokin hot in her youth.

Yeah the deadly role. Rosie is a smashing machine.

I bet Yeoh have learned a few tricks along the way

sweetsweatyfeet : You're joking, are you ? LOL :))This is not about fighting between Michelle Yeoh against Rosie O Donnell, you know... Oh come on...

Rosie went from being a cringey entertainer to a deranged lunatic. Being a leftist lunatic is all she does professionally now.

People are so easily triggered. I’m Asian and there’s nothing racist about that. It’s not like she studied Asian culture.

I’m Asian too and I agree with Jason. It was cringy. It’s the same shit my classmates used to do around me when I was a kid. I do think that most people are more aware now to not do stuff like that around us. The worst was when my best friend’s parents’ friends met me once and made the karate noises. Back then, when classmates did it, I just chalked it up to them being bullies. But when adults did it, it made me feel like shit. Anyway, nowadays in 2022 people are much more aware now. I walk around with my little nieces and nephews and white people do not approach us making those noises. We’ve come a long way. I’m sure Rosie meant no harm in it and she would def not do that today bc we as a society are generally more aware of how behaviors like that can come off as racist.

Good reason for that... she's from Malaysia and English is her first language.

@@socksumi No, Cantonese is her first language as she is ethnic Chinese but she was educated in an English medium school.

@@cyber1991 But she was born and raised in Malaysia, an English speaking ethically mixed country. Malaysia's education is taught in English She has said in an interview that English is her main language (normal for Malaysians). She also speaks Cantonese but doesn't read or write it and therefore wasn't able to read from Cantonese scripts during her early Hong Kong movies.

@@socksumi 1. It goes to show how much you know about Malaysians. Her ancestry is Hokkien (father) and Cantonese(mother) but since she was born in Ipoh which is the lingua franca for people in Ipoh, the language she communicated with her parents, relatives and other Chinese were Cantonese. 2. She went to study in an English medium school but that is more for formal education instead of everyday speaking with normal folks. Malaysians are multi-lingual. Not everybody in Malaysia know how to speak English well especially the Chinese hawkers in Ipoh who could only speak Cantonese and bit of Malay. 3. She can speak Cantonese well when she was in Malaysia (before going to HK) but couldn't read/write Chinese characters because it was taught in Mandarin in Malaysia.

@@cyber1991 Thanks for educating me in more detail regarding her ancestry and multilingualism in Malaysia. But I do recall in an interview that Michelle said English was her primary spoken language. Perhaps what she meant it as a matter of preference.