RE: Favorite characters, and beyond....
June 25, 2012 at 4:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2012 at 4:43 pm by Angrboda.)
Minor quibble, but Michelle Yeoh is actually Malaysian, not Chinese, though she was more or less based in China. As a result, for a number of movies, she had to learn her lines phonetically as she was not sufficiently familiar with the language. (Though I'm not altogether clear how much of this was due to there being two main Chinese languages, Mandarin and Cantonese, nor what her current linguistic competence is. I've studied some Mandarin, and I have an early Yeoh film that is dubbed in both Mandarin and Cantonese, but I can't tell which is the original language it was filmed in. I guess I should have studied harder.)