Michelle Yeoh has always seen herself on the big screen, she just never thought it would actually be her. 🎬
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After she returned home, a quick succession of victories shifted her fate: Her mother entered her in the 1983 Miss Malaysia pageant. She won. That led to an audition for a commercial with After that, the offers poured in. "At that point, people in the industry couldn't really tell the difference between whether I was Chinese or Japanese or Korean or if I even spoke English," she recalls. "They would talk very loudly and very slow." Her refusal to be typecast had consequences. "I didn't work for almost two years, untilsimply because I could not agree with the stereotypical roles that were put forward to me.
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