'I kicked Jackie Chan's butt', says martial arts star Michelle Yeoh

Yeoh claims Chan used to be disrespectful of women and believed a woman’s place was in the kitchen.

She claims that Chan was a real “misogynist”, which means a man who hates women. However, she beat some sense into him on the set of a movie they were both starring in and this changed Chan's attitude towards women.

Who is Michelle Yeoh?

Yeoh was born in Malaysia in 1962, she shot to fame in the 1990s after she starred in a number of highly successful Hong Kong action films.

After establishing her name as a martial arts icon, she started starring in martial art fantasy movies which leaned heavily on special effects.

Her filmography is as respectable as it is admirable, she has starred in "Yes, Madam", and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". She also starred in Tomorrow Never Dies and Memoirs of A Geisha.

Meeting Jackie Chan

Yeoh met Jackie Chan on the set of a television commercial in the mid-1980s. Yeoh previously cut her teeth as a ballet dancer. It was time for a career change, however, when she got a back injury and so could no longer dance.

She thus went into acting.

The martial arts queen then met Chan again on the set of the 1992 film Supercop, in which she plays the second lead, the director of Interpol.

In the same mould of Chan, she was known for doing her own stunts and was all ambition while shooting Supercop. Many fans will recall her daredevilry when, during one scene in that movie, she jumps off a motorbike into a moving train.

She said her experience with working with Chan on Supercop was mixed, especially since Chan owned up to mistreating his female colleagues when shooting movies with them.

However, that all changed when Yeoh, showed Chan who the "real man" was.

It all started when Chan begged her not to perform such dangerous stunts: “I told him, ‘You’re a fine one to ask me to stop! You’re always doing them.’ He said, ‘That’s because when you do one, I have to go one better.’ The pressure was on him, poor dude.”

When asked if Chan once believed that women should not be making movies, Yeoh replied: “He used to. Until I kicked his butt.”

Chan has not come out with his own version of how their “fight” went.