our next guest star is in the new james bond film tomorrow never dies which opens
on friday and she's one of the world's most successful action film actresses
okay
he's a genius welcome to the uh program you know i saw the uh the james bond uh movie a couple of
days ago you were terrific in the film thank you yeah where are you from i'm from malaysia
wow fellow malaysians that's unusual i don't think we get a lot of people from malaysia
i'll have to come back more often you'll get more malaysians
mention that you're from australia see what happens australia
he's normal no he's asleep um and is that where you began your film career i guess so right no
actually not i'm from malaysia my family's still there i i went on to england to study dance
and wanted to be a dancer i always wanted to be kind of dancing ballerina choreographer i
wanted to share my passion with little kids and have a school back in malaysia
ballet ballet is as i know yeah i know nothing about ballet but it's it's terribly difficult
isn't it i mean so more difficult very strenuous it's very hard on the bodies
uh constant you know on the knees on the back and i had a little accident while i was doing that so
that's excellent i had a rotated vertebrae and i continued to work on it and it got worse i was
only about 15 at that time what do you know yeah i didn't know this continued to rotate
yeah i'm kind of i don't know you know this is this is in your in your
this is in my lowest point oh yeah so what do they do for them they manipulated
it yeah and they sort of put it back but the specialist said that was uh
the end of my dancing career and i was so heartbroken as a kid than knowing so my dream
shattered right in front of my eyes it was so so i understand the the interest in in dance and uh
so then how do you decide you're going to be like an action invention hero heroine what happened was
um i was asked to do a commercial in hong kong i did and they offered me a film contract you know
i was 21 and i thought this is something i have not done before be fun i was in hong kong it was
a watch commercial with jackie chan oh jackie chan has been here many many times many times
jackie chan is just i don't know uh if you're familiar with this expression jackie chan is nuts
you're right i know him the guy's just wacky he ain't hooked up right so to me it seems like the
two of you get along that doesn't mean i'm not hooked up right no no i think you're fine believe
me i have nothing with the highest regard for you and your rotating vertebrae but um but is he the
the one that got you into this particular genre pardon me no actually he's a male chauvinistic pig
he will sell tickets for him on it no no no no no
him jackie and i are very good friends i say this to him you know to his face you know he
always believes that women should stay at home and cook and don't do anything and be the victim and
except for michelle except for michelle now he said because i would kick his butt
now he uh he does he prides himself on doing all of these uh very very
dangerous stunts and you do and i do my own stunts and i'm sure that you've probably been
injured doing this kind of thing unfortunately it is very physical and there are some risks
that you take and yes i've had dislocated my shoulder ruptured and archery you know
cracked my vertebrae cracked my ribs but fortunately no broken bones really yeah
it's really good you know what happened to me a couple of weeks ago remember this paul
getting ready for the show i burned myself on a hair dryer
oh he's still got a blister touch and go there for a while
uh well what was that what was the deal uh you know what was fun in that film is that
the motorcycle chase oh i got a kick out of that and tomorrow never if you
have to be handcuffed to someone pierce brosnan is a pretty good choice yeah yeah
now how much of that was actually you guys on a motorcycle we were on that
bike for about two and a half months from the rooftops of bangkok yeah it takes a lot
you guys are really naughty anyway
but you are you now so when we see the bike in motion it's really the two of
you in motion on the bike oh yeah we are in motion and i'm well it is double 07. come on
yes we are in motion and um i'm sorry i'm going in front of him behind him come on
clambering all over him and we're handcuffed together very entertaining and and the end of
the movie sort of cute too sort of you know the two of you two of us yeah it's kind of
cute i don't die i can always come back in the next one that's right we had a lot of
fun between you and me i mean he's good all right you know he's uh i i think the uh um
for me i think the best bond ever was uh johnny uh
that was tarzan all right i don't know forget don't listen to the thing i'm saying tonight um
but you know he's he's like he's good but he's a pretty boy i thought you were you're great i
thought it was really you're moving seriously oh thank you actually when they first approached me
to um two years ago when jeff clemens said to me uh you would be perfect in a barn film
i turned around and said i get to play james bond yeah you're watching
yeah they ought to think about that jamie jamie bond i got nothing but good ideas
the the movie does this one open up on the christmas tour or is it tomorrow
no it opens up tomorrow yeah well you must be very excited i hope it's a huge
i am very excited all right nice to see you pleasure to meet you please come back michelle
you