Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Michelle Yeoh Talks Scary Stunt Work And Reveals Why She Wasn’t In ‘Kill Bill’
etcanada.comMichelle Yeoh has had some frightening moments in her career. The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” star is on the new cover of Town & Country, and in it, she talks about the stunt that almost made her stop acting for good. READ MORE: Michelle Yeoh Receives Honorary Doctorate From The American Film Institute The incident occurred while shooting the 1996 Hong Kong action movie “The Stunt Woman” when she fractured some vertebrae while performing a stunt in which she plummeted from a bridge. “I thought I broke my back.
I thought I was paralyzed,” she said, describing being put in a brace and having difficulty breathing. Yeoh considered switching to a career with safer work, but continued on, appearing in the James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies” in 1997 and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in 2000.
Before that, Yeoh had already retired once from acting in 1987 after marrying wealthy Hong Kong businessman Dickson Poon. As it turns out, a conversation with Quentin Tarantino helped her make the decision to return to acting in “Supercop” with Jackie Chan. “I must say, Quentin, he’s persistent.
He is who he is today because he’s full of passion and love, so he wore me down,” she said, recalling their conversation in which he reminisced about her many amazing action sequences. “Suddenly we became animated.
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