Datuk Michelle Yeoh.... Malaysia's 1st Oscar nominated actress??? OMG!!!

Hey, yeah... I'm back again in barely minutes after my last post. This is a totally new topic and I'm here to gush about Malaysia's hottest international actress right now: our very own Ipoh-born Datuk Michelle Yeoh!!!



The Star did a feature on her today about her tour de force performance in Steven Spielberg's Memoirs of a Geisha. For a lot of people to stand up and pay attention to her performance means that this movie has to be THE movie of the year, and Oscar talk is on everybody's lips and not just for Michelle... but literally for EVERY single Chinese actress in the movie about JAPANESE geishas! Talk about irony!!!

I'm not sure about my fellow countrymen, but I am immensely proud of Datuk Michelle. She's really good actress and I've enjoyed her movies immensely. Who could forget Police Story III: Supercop, my first ever Michelle movie? She literally held her own against master action hero Jackie Chan in that movie! She was wonderful in that. After that movie, I sampled her next movie ... a martial arts story called Wing Chun, though not as stylish as martial arts movies today, but it was highly watchable. And let's not forget how he whacked Pierce Brosnan's James Bond butt in Tomorrow Never Dies but liplocking with him by the end of the movie. She was Malaysia's 1st (and probably the last) Bond girl! Then comes what has to be her next best movie after Memoirs... Wo hu chang long or better known to the world out there as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. That Ang Lee movie was artistically made and wonderfully and beautifully made! It definitely propelled a lot of the cast members into the international spotlight, especially Datuk Michelle and Zhang Ziyi, who also put in a fantastic performance in Memoirs. Though her movies after Ang Lee's actually suck... they are still quite entertaining enough to enjoy in one sitting but doesn't merit a DVD release... But with Memoirs, Datuk Michelle is definitely going places where no Malaysians have been before!!

So what's Datuk Michelle's prospects are?? Well, it's too early to talk about it but everyone is defintely praying and hoping for a Malaysian success! Come December, when it's finally released here in Malaysia, I'll defintely be one of the first in line to catch this fantastic movie. You can never go wrong with a Spielberg movie... he's up there with the likes of Akira Kurosawa and Alfred Hitchcock.