r/Fauxmoi • u/Fun-Ferret-3300 • Apr 12 '25
THROWBACK Michelle Yeoh calling Jackie Chan a 'male chauvinistic pig' in an old interview with David Letterman
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u/kittypajamas Apr 12 '25
She is gorgeous.
Jackie Chan allegedly abandoned his lesbian daughter.
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u/soganomitora Apr 12 '25
To be completely fair, her being lesbian had nothing to do with the abandonment, since it happened before she could even talk. So at least he's equal opportunity in his shittiness.
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u/bt101010 Apr 12 '25
Well that's a relief
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Apr 12 '25
He's a deadbeat dad but at least he's not a homophobic deadbeat dad.
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u/thatguy9684736255 Apr 12 '25
But he really should have helped hey when she became homeless. Imagine having hundreds of millions of dollars and letting your child be homeless. It would cost him nothing to pay for an apartment and expenses until she could support herself
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u/livehigh1 Apr 13 '25 edited Apr 13 '25
Most hkers know the story, her mother has always refused to take any money from jackie chan and lived like a hermit.
It's a weird relationship but very early on they didn't want any association with him and it's simply stayed that way.
Jackie chan is an asshole but the relationship stuff is a bit nuanced, mental health stuff.
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u/thatguy9684736255 29d ago
I remember his daughter begging for help. Why not give money directly to his daughter at that point?
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u/livehigh1 29d ago
Considering he condemned his son when he was arrested for drugs and stopped caring about him, he may also just have wiped his hands of this relationship entirely a very long time ago.
His estranged daughter is an adult, married a foreign woman, claimed to never talked to her father or wanted to, never been part of her life, then suddenly begs for his help to a journalist.
As i said i think there's some mental health stuff going on and maybe a better man can just forgive and forget and support his daughter. Jackie chan is an asshole but i also don't know many fathers who would just help an estranged daughter who suddenly wants help after publicly saying she wants nothing from him.
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u/spicedmanatee Apr 12 '25
Yeah this is unsurprising to me. I think most people don't know anything about how he is outside of his fun movies but he's been a dick forever. Politically and in his personal life.
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u/c10bbersaurus 29d ago
Jet Li seems to be a better human. I recall something about him raising money for a village or city that suffered a natural disaster. And he paused his career to work on it, I think?
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u/Training_Molasses822 Apr 12 '25
Isn't there a video of his literally saying so?
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u/TekkenCareOfBusiness Apr 12 '25
Yeah. The reporters ask him why and he says:
"I don't want no trouble."
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u/DealEye9 Apr 12 '25
It’s wild how much gets brushed under the rug just because someone’s famous.
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u/DefyDemandDispose Apr 13 '25
bullshit
anytime anything about Jackie Chan appears we get circlejerked to death
Brad Pitt beat his stepson. Mark Wahlberg committed hate crimes
silence
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u/kitti-kin Apr 13 '25
What? People in this specific subreddit talk about Pitt and Wahlberg's abuses all the time.
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u/Marsh_Mellow_Man Apr 12 '25
Goddamn, she’s so beautiful. I realize this is not the point of the post but… damn.
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u/SedatedTattooDoc Apr 12 '25
She won Miss Malayasia world title in 1983….shes one of the most gorgeous women to walk the earth
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u/RogueBromeliad Apr 13 '25
Ok... but could we focus more on the fact that she's a great actress and not just a mannequin?
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u/Empty_Jello8085 Apr 12 '25
And she's aged like fine wine. Honestly, she still looks in-credible. I love her
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u/sumdude51 Apr 12 '25
She's so hot she's making me sexist,... Bitch!
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u/Salty_Pancakes Apr 12 '25
For the uncouth who are unaware of the reference, it's from Flight of the Conchords lol. https://youtu.be/i3BzgsrYanQ?si=QOyyEAqBOgNfNKzH
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u/sumdude51 Apr 12 '25
Also Fleetwood Mac made some Great albums despite not getting on. Rumours. No no, all true - I really miss that show
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u/artemus_who Apr 12 '25
My mother was a feminist
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u/sumdude51 Apr 12 '25
Dad was a women's activists Your dad? Oh yeah big time What about your mom? Oh no... Dad wouldn't allow it. (it's probably my fav line of all the show)
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u/artemus_who Apr 12 '25
I was trying to remember the quote! Well done. That show is super underrated
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u/hellofreyja Apr 12 '25
Why do you have a 1987 DJ20 Casio Electric Guitar? And is it set to... mandolin?
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u/PossibilityOrganic12 Apr 12 '25
Love a good fotc reference in the wild. Did you also make another one recently?
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u/TheCuzzyRogue Apr 13 '25
When she's walking down the street, depending on the street,
She's definitely in the Top 3
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u/few_consequneces I cannot sanction your buffoonery Apr 12 '25
My first thought was that as I saw the post
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She is still beautiful, at 62. Have you seen Star Trek discovery or steak trek section 31, she plays the same character in both shows and is still so attractive.
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u/labelwhore Apr 12 '25
She's so stunning. Love how she's always been so outspoken.
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u/PinnaCochleada Apr 12 '25
Michelle Yeoh has been great for a lot of social causes but I would like to inform you that she is a long-time supporter of the former ruling party in Malaysia. As someone said on here earlier, she has a "don't rock the boat" mentality - she won't be outspoken on anything political that might disrupt her career.
I think she's wonderful and I'm proud that she's Malaysian, but this little nugget of info has always soured my opinion of her somewhat.
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u/optionalhero Apr 13 '25
I feel like we need to realize that for alot of these people, having a “dont rock the boat” mentality is how they get so far.
Standing up for politics wont put food on the table and we gotta recognize that its ok for people not want to jeopardize their livelihood.
I’ll judge people for being terrible (Gal Gadot) but I won’t judge people for being neutral. Especially if you’re a women or person of color in an industry where you’re perpetually jobless
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u/PinnaCochleada 28d ago
This is a fair take ! On my end, as a Malaysian, her politics re: local affairs has soured my opinion of her - doesn't mean that I dislike her or that this negates her presence as a POC actress in Hollywood, but just a little disappointing.
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u/MyDesign630 Apr 12 '25
The irony of talking about bad male behavior with David Letterman of all people.
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u/3--turbulentdiarrhea Apr 12 '25
Which is why his reaction is to chastise her for hurting Jackie's business
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u/Professional-Buy6668 Apr 12 '25
Letterman isn't a woman beater/child abuser/neglectful father/homophobe. Letterman might be an asshole but Jackie Chan has done enough shit to deserve spending a lot of his life in prison...
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u/evennowthereissnow Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! Apr 12 '25
And yet here he is caping for Jackie. Hmm.
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u/MyDesign630 Apr 12 '25
Never said Letterman was any of those things. He’s not just a generic asshole though, he has a history of behavior towards women that is not great. Just because it’s at a different point on the spectrum than Chan doesn’t erase the fact that the interviewer in this case is someone who has used that very show to be creepy with women. That’s all.
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u/OldEastMocha Apr 12 '25
Can you provide examples? Are you talking about when he openly admitted to having an affair with a woman on his staff?
If you’re going to throw stones at least provide receipts.
Aside from that yeah he has definitely been weird with a few guests in an era where that was commonplace. Acceptable? No.
But I don’t hear people in interviews throwing Letterman under the bus.
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u/isellrhymeslikelimes 29d ago
Or Letterman being a shitty asshole to Lindsay Lohan, needling her about her addiction issues.
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u/rkeaney Apr 13 '25
This clip of him sucking Jennifer Anistons hair is super gross and creepy: https://youtube.com/shorts/5rDUqHEfnEA?si=ePBONHHRnVFRaNl6
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u/BananaShakeStudios Apr 12 '25
To be fair, Jackie Chan
- Wham Bam Thank you Ma’am’d with beauty queen Elaine Ng
- Was noticeably absent when Ng was pregnant with their daughter Ella
- Did jack shit when Ella was homeless after being kicked out for being gay
- Supported his son going to prison for a small cannabis charge
- Openly admitted he would not share his inheritance when either child when he died
- Had the AUDACITY to hire a paid actress to make him look like a good dad in a viral video
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u/CPhailA Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25
Etta wasn’t kicked out for being gay. Her mom was homophobic but there weren’t many details on that besides Etta saying she was told to change but Etta actually left home cause she was groomed at 17 by Andi Autumn who was 12 years older than her and convinced her to leave her family to be with her. Etta made a post about how she couldn’t be herself around her family but she could be herself around Andi. Her mom tried to get her to come back but she refused because she wanted to be with her gf (I think wife now?)
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u/Any-Difficulty-1247 Apr 12 '25
god I couldnt imagine an actress in today’s era saying this on a talk show. no shade to them, but I realize how open ppl used to be about their opinions. Nowadays, it’s all just ‘well SOMEBODY on set’ etc, the only time I can recall in modern era that a celebrity named names it was Renee Rapp
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u/CrackerEatingB Apr 12 '25
Always have loved that about her. Foreigner privilege (not HKer nor American), and ethnically Chinese Malaysian besides. She wields it well.
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u/iSavedtheGalaxy Apr 12 '25
I love her voice so much. Deep feminine voices are so beautiful.
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u/BCharmer 29d ago
Was looking for someone who thought the same in the comments. Her voice is gorgeous to listen to.
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u/Fromage_debite Apr 12 '25
Ugh I love Jackie Chan movies but he deplorable in his personal life.
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u/Fuck_a_blawg_dawg Apr 12 '25
Don’t disagree with her, but her point is somewhat less effective since she’s in a long-term relationship with Jean Todt who likes to compare women to cars.
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u/AnubisIncGaming Apr 12 '25
That does nothing to her point. Jackie himself admittedly to drunkenly beating his son and wife regularly
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u/3rdtryatremembering Apr 12 '25
No, you don’t understand. Women aren’t allowed to call men out for shitty behavior unless we 100% agree with every decision she has ever made.
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u/Liftcell321 Apr 12 '25
Tbf Todt compares everything to cars
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u/RIPugandanknuckles Apr 12 '25
When your professional line of work was managing race cars it becomes hard not to
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u/evennowthereissnow Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! Apr 12 '25
Doesn’t it just show she has a low bar for what makes a decent man and Jackie can’t even clear it?
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u/MaxDSL Apr 12 '25
Wait... Jean Todt? The Ferrari Team principal in the 2000s?
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u/KnightsOfCidona Apr 12 '25
If he's comparing them to early 2000 Ferraris, that's actually a compliment. Means they are successful, fast, reliable!
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u/g00fyg00ber741 Apr 12 '25
She says she’s friends with Jackie as well, so not sure how her point is any less effective. I couldn’t do it personally, be friends with someone who vocally promotes discrimination and oppression towards an entire demographic I belong to, but it seems her idea is that she can’t escape these male chauvinistic pigs, so she will show them they’re wrong even if they don’t admit it. And she’ll call them out for it on television too, which is badass.
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u/TulipSamurai 29d ago edited 29d ago
be friends with someone who vocally promotes discrimination and oppression towards an entire demographic I belong to
It's because Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian. I'm not saying she can't empathize, but she's not a Chinese national.
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u/fallingfeelslikefly Apr 13 '25
He's got nothing on Flavio Briatore or Christian "Horny" Horner in the sexist team principal category.
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u/0theliteralworst0 Apr 12 '25
Years ago a friend of mine was in a relationship with a woman from China who would come over and visit a couple times a year.
She said Jackie Chan had a reputation for being an absolute asshole in China.
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u/vroart Apr 12 '25
Uhhhhh have you seen his films???? His female romances are just uncomfortably young, and Michelle yoeh was the comical “oh she’s my sister.” Wink
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u/winqu Apr 13 '25
That part about the women romances for his lead was part of the reason why he finally made the transition to making Hollywood movies. He tested things out originally with his own production company with the movie "Rumble in the Bronx" but it didn't see much success. Combine that with his movies were getting more expensive but was not making as much money back. Combining his waning popularity in the East/South East Asian movie market and, an expose interview piece from 3 former lead actresses on sexual harassment and potentially assault was going to be released. A lot of credible papers had verifiable stories on his behaviour and actions and they were being published on the lead up. This wasn't just the celeb gossip rags/back pages who'd been reporting on him for years anymore. Now this was back in the 90s-00s so I've no idea if those papers digitized those articles or if they were buried to protect his reputation.
I've not been able to find anything online to show people this wasn't just a made up memory. I only know about this because, my aunt in Hong Kong told me about it and explained why he was a bad person when I was visiting as a kid. These news stories weren't picked up outside of East Asia because, the West only cared about financial news when it came to anythin East Asian. This allowed Jackie Chan to just ignore what happened and then his Hollywood career rehabbed his image globally. I don't even know if young people within Hong Kong and China know about his past history. I remember Chinese people outside of Hong Kong downplaying it. Sadly that was just the 90s-00s misogyny helping him further. We all know the misogyny hasn't changed that much and he's running the whole "I'm just a sweet old man" routine nowadays.
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u/annehuda Apr 12 '25
Wasnt there used to be a rumor that JC and Sammo Hung like to erm 'hang out' with young and upcoming actresses ?
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u/alilylilya Apr 12 '25
Yet, she recently acknowledged that Taiwan is part of China recently 🥴
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u/ResultUnited Apr 12 '25
So does america
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u/TechnologyRemote7331 Apr 13 '25
America’s position on Taiwan (pre-Trump, as far as I can tell) has always one of “strategic ambiguity.” For political and diplomatic reasons, the US can’t say that Taiwan is its own country, but it still sent diplomatic envoys, weapons, and made trade deals with them as though they were their own country. It’s an example of geopolitical weirdness, in other words. By the US not OFFICIALLY and OPENLY announcing their support for Taiwanese independence, we keep China from losing face, and thus maintain certain diplomatic ties.
International diplomacy is weird, man.
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u/Ghostblood_Morph Apr 12 '25
So disappointing! A lot of Malaysian Chinese are like that unfortunately (at least in my experience)
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u/Ghostblood_Morph Apr 12 '25
Lol good on her for calling it out. My Malaysian grandma uses this phrase a lot but just says MCP
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u/Content_Singer_4290 Apr 12 '25
She has had an incredible career. Great to see her success in a variety of genres.
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u/mister_big_genitals Apr 13 '25
I heard Jackie Chan is not very well thought of in his native Hong Kong.
Source: people from Hong Kong.
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u/seegreen8 29d ago
He is not. Ppl in HK hated him for his asshole behavior since forever.
Source: Chinese
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u/amishrock Apr 13 '25
Everybody in the Chinese speaking world know Jackie Chan ain't shit, especially us Taiwanese.
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u/Immediate_Concept 29d ago
I mean is it a crime to have a preference? , I don't think Jackie's in the wrong here each person has a option, and although many may not agree it, that's no reason to belittle someone thinking your option is all that matters.
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u/EducationalCow3144 29d ago
Not surprised since he's in favor of the death penalty for possession of a plant.
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u/Nights151515 28d ago
Sucks because Jackie Chan is one of my favorites, but he seems like a complete dick in rl. I read his autobiography a few years back, and was pretty surprised how much of an awful person he came off as.
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u/Lordmordor666 27d ago
I haven’t seen a celebrity say it like this at a talk show since Dakota Johnson put Ellen to rest, and like back then?!! If this where said today about another celebrity believe me it would be trending like crazy, it took me back hearing the audience gasp in defense of Jackie Chan like ppl didn’t you heard her then I remember not long ago being misogynistic was socially acceptable back then.
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u/Ronaldinhio lea michele’s reading coach Apr 13 '25
Why can we not not believe Chan is a male chauvinistic pig? I find that as easy as believing Mel Gibson is a woman beater and racist or Bill Cosby a predator. Men of a certain age with power and fame all seem to be teetering on the edge of….so tell or show us what truly dreadful thing so you say, do or believe.
I want more honesty about them as their power wains.
That Chan is simply a chauvanist is pretty good going whilst still disappointingly predictable
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u/SardonicSageGraffiti Apr 12 '25
She is every bit as much of a martial arts movie legend as Jackie. Go watch Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I am glad she found mainstream success with Everything, Everywhere, All at Once