Michelle Yeoh rumoured to star in Mission: Impossible 3

Former James Bond girl Michelle Yeoh is rumoured to star in the forthcoming "Mission: Impossible 3".

According to Hong Kong's Oriental Daily and its sister newspaper The Sun, Michelle Yeoh said she had been contacted for playing roles in both Mission: Impossible 3 and The Lecter Variation, the planned The Silence of the Lamb prequel - reports MonkeyPeaches.

Yeoh (who played Wai Lin in the 1997 film "Tomorrow Never Dies") said she was getting somewhat close to seal the deal with M:I3 and was unexpectedly contacted by the production of The Lecter Variation when she was in Cannes last week.

She said it was really hard to choose between these to projects and would leave it to the producers. According to an earlier report, Gong Li was offered a role in The Lecter Variation but Yeoh said the producers would decide whom to cast after they did their test shots.

Thanks to `JP` for the alert.

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