A political drama as well as a story of remarkable spousal support, devotion and understanding, director Luc Besson’s The Lady stars Michelle Yeoh as Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of Burma who spent years imprisoned by her native country’s military junta. While Yeoh is better known for the sort of physicality she’s put on display in more straightforward genre films, The Lady masterfully showcases her quiet and controlled side, to often heartrending effect. I recently had a chance to speak to Yeoh one-on-one in person, about her exacting research for the movie, the challenges of embodying a well known public figure, and more. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the full read, in which Yeoh passingly reveals that she used to read… Mad Magazine?