Michelle Yeoh recalls one of her most death-defying stunts
An impressive sequence on Supercop almost cost the actress her life
Michelle Yeoh has been performing her own stunts for most of her career, but a sequence on 1992’s Police Story 3: Supercop—released here in the States simply as Supercop in 1996—almost left the actress for dead.
“In Asia at that time, we don’t really do rehearsals, we don’t have weeks of preparation. We learn the stunt and we do it,” Yeoh tells Entertainment Weekly as part of her promo run for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The sequence in question features Yeoh jumping from a moving truck into a droptop roadster driven by co-star Jackie Chan while both vehicles speed down a Malaysian highway. As Yeoh explains, the six-foot drop from the vehicles when they were moving was far more intimidating than when they were stationary and the actors were just setting up the shot.
Yeoh goes into detail about the first time they attempted the stunt which found Yeoh hitting the hood of Chan’s car and then hitting the ground. “The windscreen was supposed to shatter, and that would have helped me have a break,” she says. “But the windscreen didn’t shatter, I had nowhere to hold onto, and I kept sliding off the car.”