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Jump to full article: Martial Arts Newsroom (Karate Kidz Online), 2004-12-23
Intro: Yuen, who appeared in the 1974 James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun," landed a role in "Kung Fu Hustle," which opens here on Thursday, because the director liked the way she smoked, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Yuen, a popular stunt woman and kung fu actress in the 70s, said she was accompanying a friend to an audition when director Stephen Chow saw her smoking, the paper said. Chow was looking for someone who smoked the way she did and urged her to join the film, the paper quoted her as saying.
Chow, who directed and starred in the 2001 hit "Shaolin Soccer," asked her to play a landlady in his new comedy about gangsters who try to take over a neighborhood full of kung fu masters disguised as ordinary residents.
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