Michelle Yeoh to play Aung San Suu Kyi in film role

Aung San Suu Kyi is currently the world's democracy icon. As leader of the National League for Demcoracy, NLD, she fought tirelessly for democracy in military ruled Burma (Myanmar). As a result of overwhelming support for her and the NLD, the Myanmar military junta put her under house arrest twice between 1989 to 1995 and between 2003 to November 13th, 2010. She won the Nobel peace prize in 1991.

Suu Kyi release came a week after Burma's first election in 20 years in which neither she nor her party could participate. The military junta has kept her locked away for 15 of the past 21 years.




Michelle Yeoh is Malaysia's own and very first James Bond girl. In 1997, she starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in the Bond film "Tomorrow never dies". In 2000, she starred in the classic Ang Lee's movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The movie won 40 awards including Best Foreign Film in the annual Academy Awards in 2001. Michelle was Miss Malaysia in 1983. She is from Ipoh, Perak - a town well known as the city of pretty girls of Malaysia.

This week, Michelle Yeoh had been spending time with Aung San Suu Kyi to research a possible film role as the Nobel Peace laureate.

Yeoh chatted with Ms Suu Kyi in an airport waiting lounge on Tuesday 7th December 2010 as the pro-democracy leader bid farewell to her youngest son, Kim Aris, 33, who lives in England.

Kim Aris was finally allowed to visit his mother in Burma for the first time in a decade after her recent release from house arrest since 2003.

Suu Kyi was first arrested in 1989 when Kim Aris was 11 and his older brother, Alexander, was 16.

Meanwhile, Michelle, the former Bond girl had spent the day with Ms Suu Kyi on Monday, 6th December 2010 as part of research for an apparent forthcoming film about the democracy icon, said Ms Suu Kyi's lawyer Nyan Win.

It was reported that the film will be directed by Frenh director Luc Besson and will be filmed around Bangkok, Thailand including areas around Muang Thong Thani and Khlong Song in Pathum Thani.

Below are scenes of Michelle Yeoh 2 great movies. As James Bond Girl in "Tomorrow Never Dies" and as Yung Shu Lien, a female warrior in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

who is the most handsome James Bond of all time?

There are 6 actors who played the role as the suave British superspy with Licence to Kill..

SEAN CONNERY (Scotish - 6 ft 3 inches) born 1930

GEORGE LAZENBY (Australian, 6 ft 2 inches) born 1939

ROGER MOORE (British, 6 ft 1 inches) born 1927

TIMOTHY DALTON (British, 6 ft 2 inches) born 1946

PIERCE BROSNAN (Irish, 6 ft 1 inches / 1.87 m) born 1953

and DANIEL CRAIG (British - 5 ft 10 inches / 1.78 m) born 1968

And who is the most handsome 007...

my pick - Roger Moore

and

Pierce Brosnan...

George Lazenby in 2008

Sorry to all Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig fans....

the 3 Bonds (Dalton, Moore & Brosnan)

For me Roger Moore is truly Bond with great sense of humour too. His phrase "how do you kill 5 hours in Rio if you don't samba" while talking to a very sexy lady in a Rio De Janeiro hotel room, which means let's make love right away before my next "at her majesty's secret service" assignment in 5 hours time!!! remains my favourite quote... It is from the 1979 Bond movie "Moonraker".the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent Bond.

the 2 Bonds (Connery & Moore)

and what do all these Bonds share in common, apart from "shaken not stirred Vodka Martini" and passion for pretty ladies and the ability to dodge bullets ??? yes, they all share the same gun - a walther PPK ... a kind of short barelled pistol, built with the precision of British engineering...!!

Walther PPK

Senator Dato Jins Shamsuddin as Malaya's own superspy "Jefri Zain"

Malaysia did have its own version of James Bond movies in the 1960s and 1970s. The movies "Jefri Zain" starred Senator Dato Jins Shamsudin as Malaya's superspy.

Norman Hakim as Malaysia's 007?

Had "Jefri Zain" movie series been reproduced till now, i suggest the best actor to fit in as Malaysia's James Bond is Norman Hakim (no hard feelings Abby Abadi...)

or even Dato Yusof Haslam!!!

But this SAD looking guy below is Malaysia's if not Asia's very own 007 who proclaimed himself as the best looking Bond ever!! In this clip, he is seen zeroing on his nemesis with a super high tech binocular, custom made specially by Q!!