Hollywood star Michelle Yeoh, who plays pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming film, has been deported by army-dominated Myanmar and blacklisted, an official said last Tuesday.

“She did not have the chance to enter Myanmar again. She was deported straight away on the first flight after arriving at Yangon International Airport,” a Myanmar official, who did not want to be named, told AFP.

“She’s on the blacklist now,” a second official said, declining to say why.

The Malaysian-born former Bond girl met the Nobel Peace Prize winner at her Yangon home last December after shooting scenes with French director Luc Besson in Thailand for the production, which has been kept under close wraps.

The film is expected to be released later this year.

Suu Kyi, who turned 66 this month, has won international acclaim for her peace-ful resistance in the face of oppression.

Yeoh, 48, a former Miss Malaysia, has starred in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha based on the novel by Arthur Golden.

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