Michelle Yeoh is opening up about a particularly death-defying scene. The 59-year-old actress got candid about her career in an interview with EW. Click inside to read more… During the interview, Michelle opened up about Stanley Tong‘s 1992 Supercop, also starring Jackie Chan, as cops who attempt to take down a drug lord.
In the movie, Michelle rides a real motorbike onto a real moving train. “What was I thinking? I was swinging at the side of trucks.
I was riding a motorcycle onto a moving train. I was doing the most insane stunts,” she said. At one point, Michelle lept from the roof of a truck onto the hood of a convertible driven by Jackie Chan on the highway. “In Asia at that time, we don’t really do rehearsals, we don’t have weeks of preparation.
We learn the stunt and we do it,” she recalled. “So you park the [truck] and Jackie‘s car next to each other and you look at it and it’s about a six-foot fall, it’s not much, and you think, I could do this.
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