LOS ANGELES () - Not many actresses receive given strong, emotional performances and kicked major tooshie in the same celluloid, but luckily for fans of the "Mummy" movies, Michelle Yeoh is unitary.
Yeoh, 45, stars in "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," which opened in U.S. theaters on Friday, the third in a series of box office hits about adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) who seems to constantly run fouled of power-hungry mummies.
In this newest interlingual rendition, Yeoh portrays a Chinese sorceress, Zi Yuan, world Health Organization puts a curse on an ancient emperor only when to see him get up from the dead afterward 2,000 years to seek vengeance.
Zi is unitary of a group of people, including O'Connell, world Health Organization must put the emperor back in his tomb, and she uses non only her fists, just her marbles and poise, as substantially.
"It's a modest, but important role," Yeoh told . "She was so much around being one with the world and Mother Nature, and thither was a certain total of understanding in her that you could meet behind her eyes."
In the world of martial arts movies, at that place are few actresses wHO let fists fly as well as Yeoh, and even fewer who have earned respect in Hollywood as a top actress.
Yeoh rose to prominence in Hong Kong action flicks, and she gained wide recognition from U.S. audiences as a Bond girl in 1997's 007 spy flick, "Tomorrow Never Dies."
She then displayed both her acting and her fighting skills in Ang Lee's Oscar winner "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." In recent long time, she has taken square acting roles in dramas "Memoirs of a Geisha" and science fiction flick "Sunshine."�
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