It looks so science fiction: Actress Michelle Yeoh says friends were blown away by sights of Singapore in Crazy Rich Asians film

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SINGAPORE - Some of Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh's foreign friends were so blown away by the sights of Singapore in the film Crazy Rich Asians that they thought the locales were not real.

Referring to Marina Bay Sands, the 56-year-old star said: "Someone said, 'Oh, wasn't that hotel a CG (computer-generated) hotel?'

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