HONG KONG: Film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has lost his reputation, his job and his Academy membership in an extraordinary fall from grace within one and a half weeks, should still thank his lucky stars. It could have been worse: For instance, if he had tried to have one of his hotel room encounters with Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, she would have unleashed "years of martial arts training" on him. He was an executive producer of two of Yeoh's recent projects, the 2014-2016 historical series Marco Polo and the 2016 sequel to the Oscar-winning 2000 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I wasn't exposed to this side of him, otherwise he would have experienced the full effect of years of martial arts training." Zhang, who starred with Yeoh in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and broke into Hollywood, told The Associated Press she was glad not to have worked with Weinstein.

Source: The Star October 19, 2017 02:48 UTC