"It's really a love story that was almost unbelievable," said Michelle Yeoh about portraying characters. "More importantly for me is that people should know the story. Because it seems people have started to forget, because so long to happen. To be continued for 20 years," said the artist born in Ipoh, Malaysia, August 6, 1962, and whose full name is Michelle Yeoh Cho-Keng as well.
Indeed, Michael Aris been banned from visiting his wife, Suu Kyi, when Aris was diagnosed with cancer in 1997. Suu Kyi was also forbidden to leave Myanmar to visit ailing Aris. Aris finally died in 1999.
Before playing the role of Aung San Suu Kyi in recent film work of French filmmaker Luc Besson, The Lady, Malaysian-born Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh was never difficulty entering the country Myanmar.
In December 2010, for example, Michelle Yeoh, who is better known as the female spy character of China, Wai Lin, in a series of James Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan actor-even chance to visit pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi in his home, on the edge lakes in Naypyidaw (Yangon), just weeks after the opposition leader was released from seven years of house arrest.
Michelle Yeoh (48) even had a full day with Suu Kyi and her son who had been living in England, Kim Aris. But, suddenly things got changed when Michelle Yeoh tries again to visit Daw (The Lady) Suu Kyi on June 22, 2011 last.
Yeoh, who recently completed the film The Lady in the neighboring country, Thailand, immediately Myanmar authorities arrested upon arrival at the airport Naypyidaw. He was immediately deported and flown in the next flight out of Burma (Myanmar) on the same day.
"He was deported on that day because he was blacklisted," said Myanmar officials told Reuters that June. Not disclosed in detail why Michelle Yeoh blacklisted. Only, all of them understand, Yeoh was banned due to play the role of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent his 15 years of his life in the last 21 years under house arrest in Naypyidaw.
Film The Lady, which was originally released just as the opening film at the Rome film festival on 27 October to 4 November, will likely suffer the same fate with a film about the struggle of opposition figures Uygur, Ten Conditions of Love.
Movie love story that political background of the characters Uygur, Kadeer, not only prohibited from playing throughout China. In fact, China requested that this film was also screened at film festivals everywhere, or would face sanctions from China.
"I was really touched by the personal story of Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle continued for democracy in his country. And I hope that through this film struggle better known and more audible voice," said the director of The Lady, Luc Besson, such as Reuters quoted on the reasons behind why he picked up the story to the big screen Suu Kyi.
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Michelle Yeoh was born Yeoh Chu-Kheng in Ipoh, Malaysia on August 6, 1962. Although she learned to speak Chinese later, her first languages were Malay and English. A tomboy and an athlete as a young girl, she became interested in ballet at the age of 4.
She was so passionate about her dancing that when her teenage years rolled around, her father realized that she had serious potential. He sent her to England to study at London's Royal Academy of Dance.
During her last days at the school, she suffered a terrible back injury and it was obvious that a dancing career was out of the question. Still, she graduated in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in dance and a minor in drama.
Anyone familiar with the Hong Kong movie scene knows Michelle from her roles in Yes, Madam (1985), Magnificent Warriors (1987) and Jackie Chan's Supercop (1992). The roles that made her famous internationally include Wai Lin in the James Bond movieTomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Yu Xiu Lien in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
She had supporting roles in Owl vs. Dumbo (1984) and The Target(1985) before she was noticed in the Cynthia Rothrock action comedy Yes, Madam (1985). Other minor Hong Kong films followed, including In the Line of Duty (1986), Magnificent Warriors (1987) and Easy Money (1987).
Her next role saw her sharing the screen once more with Jackie Chan in the enormously successful Supercop (1992). The following year, she was seen in six films: Twin Warriors, The Heroic Trio, Holy Weapon, Executioners, Comet, Butterfly and Sword, and Supercop 2.
Following the 1994 releases Shaolin Popey 2, Wonder Seven andWing Chun, Michelle starred in the dramas The Stunt Woman(1996) and The Soong Sisters (1997). Finally, Yeoh was introduced to Western audiences as a Bond Girl in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) opposite Pierce Brosnan and Teri Hatcher.
After Moonlight Express (1999), Michelle Yeoh again proved her talent with martial arts in the Academy Award-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). In 2001, Yeoh was named International Star of the Year at the ShoWest Convention. She then produced and appeared in both The Touch (2002) and Silver Hawk (2004).
She continued to be busy in 2005, with a role in Memoirs of a Geisha and the Chinese feature, Hua Mulan. In 2006, she co-starred Jet Li in Fearless.
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Film The Lady is actually a movie love story between Suu Kyi and her husband are a British national, Michael Aris, and detail the story of their long separation, though still entwined in love, especially after Suu Kyi was detained continuously since 1989.
Suu Kyi new "removable" rulers of Myanmar this year, after Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 66 years old. Suu Kyi's party National League for Democracy (NLD), actually won a landslide election in 1990 Myanmar. However, winning 59 percent nationally and 81 percent (392 seats of the 485 parliamentary seats) was not recognized by the military junta of Myanmar.
Before the election, Suu Kyi has been under house arrest, and after the election had he remained under house arrest. The next year, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
