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Feminist backlash as Michelle Yeoh dismissed as a 'Bond girl' for secret agent role in 007 film Tomorrow Never Dies...during BBC Woman's Hour

Michelle Yeoh's portrayal of Wai Lin in the 1997 film could hardly be further removed from the more passive Bond heroines but she was described as a 'Bond girl' by presenter Nuala McGovern.

Critics say that the term used by presenter Nuala McGovern in the introduction to an interview with the star bears no relation to what Ms Yeoh actually did in the movie - which included performing some of her own stunts. Ms Yeoh's portrayal of the Chinese agent Wai Lin in the film –which starred Pierce Brosnan as 007 – could hardly be further removed from the more passive Bond heroines played by the likes of Britt Ekland, Jane Seymour and Jill St John in the 1960s and 1970s. The presenter was criticised for a pointed interview with nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital in County Durham who have objected to a trans colleague using a female changing room.

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