{"id":12189,"date":"2012-02-03T00:02:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T00:02:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-03T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T00:02:01","slug":"-The-Lady--makes-Hong-Kong-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12189","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Lady&#8221; makes Hong Kong debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Actress Michelle Yeoh said that playing the role of Aung San Suu Kyi in the &#8220;The Lady&#8221; was an opportunity of a lifetime, as the film about the Myanmar democracy leader made its debut in Hong Kong today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the Hong Kong-based, Malaysian-born star refused to be drawn on the film&#8217;s likely reception in Myanmar, otherwise known as Burma, where Suu Kyi&#8217;s recent release from house arrest has ignited the democracy movement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I first heard that someone wants to make a movie about Aung San Suu Kyi, instinctively I knew as an actor that this is a role of a lifetime,&#8221; the former Bond girl told reporters ahead of the film&#8217;s Hong Kong premiere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is such a revered person, she is such a good human being (who) would be very inspirational for me not just as an actor but for my audience as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old star of films including &#8220;Tomorrow Never Dies&#8221; and &#8220;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&#8221; said the pressure of playing a Nobel Peace Prize winning icon of democratic struggle was a weight on her shoulders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Lady&#8221; is a two-hour biopic that focuses on the private life of Suu Kyi<\/strong>, her late British husband, Michael Aris, and their two sons as she assumes the mantle of democracy leader in a country ruled by an iron-fisted junta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While there is no scheduled release of the film in Myanmar, pirate copies of &#8220;The Lady&#8221; have flooded the streets of Yangon, which its French director Luc Besson described as an &#8220;excellent news&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Besson filmed the movie in Thailand near its border with Myanmar, as well as secretly in Myanmar itself, and used footage shot by pro-democracy activists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lUYyX4NLaCY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Michelle Yeoh said that playing the role of Aung San Suu Kyi in the &#8220;The Lady&#8221; 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