It’s hard to believe that when Michelle Yeoh, the impossibly elegant star of this year’s blockbuster romcom Crazy Rich Asians, first entered Hong Kong society in the mid-1980s she felt like ‘a fish out of water’. Recently crowned Miss Malaysia, she had started dating billionaire Dickson Poon (the current owner of Harvey Nichols) and was invited to dinner with his family: ‘A casual dinner, I’d been told,’ she says. ‘So the door opened, and everyone was in cocktail dresses, and there I was in my tennis shoes. After that I learned, “OK, there’s no casual here!”’
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I woke on Tuesday at 4am and could hardly breathe. I was sweating (and, post-menopausal that I am, I never sweat) and racked with worry. I grabbed my hair, put my head in my hands, and said out loud, ‘What am I doing? What was I thinking?’