Happy Birthday, Michelle Yeoh! Variety Ranks her Top 10 (5) Performances

[sandstorm]

Michelle Yeoh at 60: From ‘Crouching Tiger’ to ‘Everything Everywhere’, Her 10 Best Performances https://t.co/hAPNa4Dwwf
- Variety (@Variety) August 6, 2022

10. Supercop (1992)
She's beating the shit out of people in a dowdy sweater!

7. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
So, TIL Michelle Yeoh was an agent in a Bond movie, and also a Bond girl??? Ok!

5.

Comments

[blazingeternity]

Yass, selamat hari lahir to this national treasure! I can't pick a fave film or performance, tbh. I find her quite versatile, but her strong and badass female characters were a true inspiration to me growing up.

One random thing that bugs me, though, is that she has multiple honourable titles, but no outlet ever mentions it. It's always Dame this, Sir that, OBE old white person, but Michelle never gets addressed properly :(

[sandstorm]

I had to go to Wikipedia to check and wow - Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dato' Seri, Michelle Yeoh, PSM SPMP DPMP.

(I have no idea if that's in the right order :( )

[blazingeternity]

Yeah, that's the full formal title, but not how you would address her 😅
Tan Sri is actually the second-highest federal title you can get (awarded by the king), so if I'm not mistaken, it should be enough to refer her to as Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh.

Like, I'm not demanding people to care for royal titles or the monarchy at all, and I honestly don't know how she feels about her titles always being omitted internationally, but I've met actual Ambassadors and court people who only had a much lower-ranked Datuk title. imo if media uses titles, then be consistent, don't write Sir Ian McKellen and ignore Michelle's when she is literally of the same rank! Asian honours don't mean less just because they're Asian.

[psychoblood]

You know, I always forget that she's a Tan Sri.

I just call her Emperor these days, because of Trek.

[blazingeternity]

That's the spirit!! 🙌 👑