Michelle Yeoh addressed the UN General Assembly in her capacity as road safety ambassador.
Michelle Yeoh, the global ambassador for the Make Roads Safe campaign, is to portray the Burmese political activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a new movie.
Michelle, who led the Make Road Safe campaign’s successful ‘Call for a Decade of Action’, met with the recently released Aung San Suu Kyi, known to her Burmese supporters as ‘The Lady’, at her home in Rangoon, Burma, on 7th December. As well as discussing her role in the forthcoming biopic, Michelle discussed global road safety with Aung San Suu Kyi, and presented her with a road safety Tag, the symbol of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety.
The new movie about Aung San Suu Kyi’s life, by French director Luc Besson, is filming on location in Thailand, the UK and France. Michelle Yeoh, who has starred in blockbuster movies including the James Bond film ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’; ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’; ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’; and ‘Sunshine’, also remains committed to her role as the world’s leading road safety advocate.
“Aung San Suu Kyi has experienced such great injustice and struggle in her life, so she recognises the global injustice, particularly to the young, poor and vulnerable, caused by the failure to provide safe roads”, Michelle Yeoh said. “I was so proud to present Aung San Suu Kyi with our road safety Tag, the symbol of our Decade of Action, and to welcome her to our international campaign to make roads safe.”
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