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General => Entertainment => Movies => Topic started by: Foxy Brown on July 11, 2011, 07:22:06 AM

Title: Actress Michelle Yeoh says she was barred from entering Myanmar
Post by: Foxy Brown on July 11, 2011, 07:22:06 AM

Actress Michelle Yeoh confirmed Thursday that she had been denied entry to Myanmar.

Yeoh plays Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie. She had flown to the country on June 22 and was deported on arrival, she said.

"The immigration authorities treated me cordially but deported me upon arrival for no reason and without providing any justification," she said in a statement. (http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-30/entertainment/michelle.yeoh.myanmar_1_aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-opposition-leader-michael-aris?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ)

Title: Re: Actress Michelle Yeoh says she was barred from entering Myanmar
Post by: JFC on July 11, 2011, 08:00:28 AM

Considering who's she's supposed to be playing and how that movie is likely going to depict the current government there, it's not surprising that they wouldn't let her (and the rest of the film crew) in.

Title: Re: Actress Michelle Yeoh says she was barred from entering Myanmar
Post by: daigong on July 19, 2011, 07:48:50 AM

here's the offending images.

(http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1782/news7.jpg)

spitting image fo sho. Source: singtao (http://singtao.com)