Asia's top female action star is new in Los Angeles, but already the locals know her as the woman who matched Jackie Chan stunt for impossible stunt in Police Story III: Super Cop. And maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank you, but I'm an actress who just happens...
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