The Aung San Suu Kyi Role Costs Deportation for Bond Girl Michelle Yeoh from Burma
Everybody knows Aung San Suu Kyi and everybody knows Michelle Yeoh too.
Both are quite different, while Michelle Yeoh is famous for her acting skills that she proved in various films including the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha and the 1997 James Bond Movie Tomorrow Never Dies, Aung Suu Kyi is not an actress, yet she is a heroin, a real life star, a revolutionary and supporter of individual freedom.
We all know her as the strong Burmese woman who took opposition against the tyrannical rulers of her country for the sake of common people and demanded democracy against autocracy.
Aung San Suu Kyi is certainly a woman of respect, an idol.
That is why she is the central topic of a new movie by Luc Besson entitled as The Lady.
Michelle Yeoh has been chosen as the woman to act the lead role which is based on the real life of Aung San Suu Kyi.
While this is certainly a matter of honor for Michelle Yeoh, she has been forced to pay a dear price for attaining this role.
Yes, the military-backed government of Burma has decided to deport actress Michelle Yeoh and this action has been taken against Michelle Yeoh’s decision to star as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the upcoming movie The Lady.
The Malaysian beauty Michelle Yeoh arrived at Rangoon which is the major city of Burma on June 22 and she was deported from there on the same day as she was on a blacklist.
No information has been provided about the reasons for which Michelle Yeoh has been deported or why her name is on the blacklist.
However, it is very easy to understand that this is nothing but retaliation by the government of Burma against the movie The Lady.
Government of Burma has routinely rejected permissions and visa for journalists and assumed critics of the government of Burma for years.
Nyan Win, who is the spokesman of Aung San Suu Kyi, has confirmed this report about deportation of Michelle Yeoh. However, he said that he do not have any details about it.
Luc Besson is producing this movie which is about Suu Kyi’s real life and her struggle.
The movie, The Lady, is expected to be completed late this year.
Michelle Yeoh hopes that her portrayal of Suu Kyi will increase awareness about the Nobel Peace Prize winner and about the struggle she is facing.
Suu Kyi is 66 years old and she has spent most of her last two decades under arrest by the former military junta. However, Suu Kyi was released last year.
She was released just a few days after an election. She wasn’t allowed to contest in those elections and her party boycotted those elections in Burma.
That election was the first in Burma in last 20 years.
The military handed ruling power to a civilian government after those elections.
However, political critics confirm that those elections were just a false facet and nothing has been changed in Burma even till now.
They say that the new government is merely a tool in the hands of the army which has been in power in Burma since 1962.
The Lady was filmed in Thailand. Michelle Yeoh visited Burma in December last year and spent time with Suu Kyi to know more about her personally so that she may offer her best for the movie.
Michelle Yeoh is a former Miss Malaysia as she won Miss Malaysia beauty pageant in 1983 when she was 19 years old. She was born on August 6 1962 in Hong Kong.
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