Michelle Yeoh 楊紫瓊 in the film 'Wing Chun (co-starring Donnie Yen) 1994
Michelle Yeoh 楊紫瓊 was the highest paid actress in Asia for a while. But it is also hard to forget what prices she has paid. Though action films strongly depend on choreography, cinematography, and editing to look good, in Hong Kong, the blows actors throw and receive in the course of filmed combat are real, involving full contact. In filming the movie 'Wing Chun,' Michelle Yeoh dislocated her elbow in a fight scene coupled with an old spinal injury that recurred as the result of falling from a horse and the pain was so bad that she could not move at all.
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