Michelle Yeoh’s Most Outrageous Screen Stunts

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Michelle Yeoh has made the transition from action hero to Oscar winner, thanks to her acclaimed performance in “Everything Everywhere All At Once”.

However, it was back in the 1980s that Yeoh got her start in Hong Kong action movies, with her martial arts skills and gymnastic abilities catapulting her to increasingly larger roles. READ MORE: Michelle Yeoh Says She ‘Never Dreamt Of Being On The Silver Screen’ When She Started 40 Years Ago As ET Canada continues to celebrate Asian Heritage Month, we look back on some of Yeoh’s most memorable screen stunts. “Yes Madam” (1985) Yeoh’s first major stunt was for Hong Kong martial arts film “Yes Madam”, which involved flipping backward and smashing through glass — with her head! — while simultaneously hurling two thugs off a balcony.

In a 2022 interview with Town & Country, Yeoh spoke about attending the “Yes Madam” premiere and watching the audience react in surprise at the intensity of her stunt work. “They expected that I would just pull a gun and say, ‘Stop or I’ll shoot,’” Yeoh said with a chuckle, recalling that her balcony stunt cause the crowd in the theatre to burst into applause.

Police Story III: Supercop (1992) As wild as the stunts were in “Yes Madam”, they were only a warmup for her work in “Police Story III: Supercop” (retitled “Super Cop” in North American.