Michelle Yeoh

But as popular works have taught us, discovering the multiverse can also become dangerous. Writers risk relying on plot intricacies as a crutch. Their ...

The difference in execution is where each film ends up: While “No Way Home” keeps its gaze on the grand superheroism of it all, “Everything Everywhere” uses the multiverse as a tool through which to return to examining our small, everyday lives. Aside from the immediate danger at hand, the “what ifs” she explores in the multiverse have not to do with supervillains or superpowers but with the normal decisions so many of us face: deciding whom to marry; becoming a parent; even just choosing to carry yourself a little differently, perhaps with a bit more confidence. “Everything Everywhere” starts with Evelyn preparing to meet with a tax auditor while getting ready for a Lunar New Year party she and her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), plan to host at the laundromat. In the superhero movie, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) asks Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to change part of the past to make his own life easier, but they tear a hole in the multiverse when it goes awry. But the new film “ Everything Everywhere All at Once,” released Friday in theaters nationwide, does so smoothly — albeit after a rocky journey for its protagonist, laundromat owner Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh). Directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known collectively as the Daniels, recognize that resonant depictions of the multiverse are more interested in human emotion than they are the mechanics involved. Writers may find the tool liberating; the multiverse, essentially an infinite collection of parallel universes, presents a choose-your-own-adventure exercise in which they get to choose them all.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a heartfelt story about forgiveness and family, a genre-bending, mind-bending trip through the multiverse and ...

Hence she does not become an action-movie icon during Hong Kong's wild-and-crazy gonzo-cinema Golden Age. There are no late-'90s Bond movies, no instant-classic ...

So while Yeoh was excited to get to play any number of roles in Everything Everywhere All at Once, the starlet and the Shaolin warrior and the long-fingered, futuristic lover and the piñata Evelyn (don’t ask), it was the ordinary Evelyn that drew her in. It can be a lot of duh-duh-duh.” She replicates the sound of flashbulbs going off, she pretends she’s exiting a limo and waving to an imaginary crowd. Her description of the role, however, is a lot more concise: “The damsel in distress.” There’s a slight sigh in her voice when she says the phrase. “You asked me before if I wanted to pivot to action movies out of desire or necessity and survival,” she says. This next chapter of Yeoh’s career is what she sometimes refers to as her “acting” phase, which isn’t to suggest that she wasn’t performing in that run of mid-Nineties martial-arts period pieces and kinetic, go-for-broke blockbusters. “The first thing I thought was, ‘What is my dad going to say?’” she remembers, as her eyes widen and her lip faux-trembles. And once she saw what they did with a story about two men marooned on a desert island — one of which happens to be an extremely flatulent corpse — it was like the key turned in the lock. Yeoh set up a meeting with them while she was in Los Angeles, “at this fancy restaurant in a fancy hotel,” Scheinert says. Still, while Yeoh may have been slightly confused by some of the more outré aspects of what the two Daniels had written, she was intrigued by what was underneath all of the wackiness: a sincere story about an everyday woman in a life that hadn’t turned out the way she’d planned. “Basically, from the very first draft, we knew we wanted her in the movie,” Kwan says, on a Zoom call prior to the festival premiere. Even if you’ve spent decades watching Yeoh spin tofu on her fingers, and engage in wire fu fights on the tops of trees, and jump a motorbike onto a moving train (an actual stunt that Yeoh did herself in 1992’s Supercop), it is safe to say that you have never seen her do anything like this. It’s the day after the opening-night premiere of her new film, Everything Everywhere All at Once, at the SXSW Film Festival and she’s been doing press all day; this is her last interview, Yeoh says, so she’s treating herself to a cocktail.

The Hong-Kong cinema icon Michelle Yeoh took on the characters of her lifetime in an absurdist comedy about multiverses, ended up mixing everything she has ...

According to Michelle, she is treating herself to a cocktail. No projects which would involve the star engaging in elaborate combat scenes involving googly eyes, dildos and butt plugs. In question then does not enter a beauty contest and win.

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But it gets to a point where I have to remember, “You’re not Superwoman.” They always say, “You don’t understand us.” And in a way, we don’t, because they live in a world that moves so fast. So going from one form of movement to another took a little bit of adjustment, but it was relatively easy because I’m used to remembering steps and motion, and then it was just learning how to transfer the energy differently. The second I saw that, I was like, “It looks like a butt plug. YEOH: I don’t, but I have six godchildren, so they’re pretty much like my kids. But there’s just the right amount of references to you being a martial arts star. A child that is a mystery to you. When my character is going through the multiverse and trying to learn all these skills, the one thing the Daniels told me was, “Don’t look like you know what you’re doing.” I was like, “I’ve spent years mastering that calm, serene look. They knew where they were going and each move was critical to the next step. I’m not just saying this to kiss your ass, but it was one of my favorite things that I’ve seen in a long time. I had absolutely no idea what I was about to see, which is the best way to see this movie. It must have been like that on the page.

https://youtu.be/DHOSiFzcHJ8 Hollywood has too many sins to list—not least how swiftly it discards women the minute they sprout a single grey hair.

Michelle Yeoh, whose impressive acting in Everything Everything All at Once is garnering a massive response, revealed her wish to amaze fans with something ...

I am the teacher, the mentor. I know exactly what I'm doing. “Every time I make a movie, I hope the audience discovers something new about me,” she told the magazine.

The star tells Cosmo about her own acting multiverse—from playing a hibachi chef to a dominatrix—in her latest movie. ... Let's state the facts: Michelle Yeoh is ...

And watching that talent, the range of talent that she has, and thinking, "Wow, she is going to have such an incredible career ahead of her." So we now we are coming to terms with the fact that there is a chasm because we can't communicate as fast as you can. Look at Ke. He's got the courage to come back after 20 years of having to stay away from something that he loves and is so good and so passionate about. We look at each other and go like, "Yeah, we have hot dogs, and we're having to do a love dance. She empowered me to be out there, to throw caution to the wind, and just love every minute of it. That was the first time I was a hibachi chef, learning to spin that egg with so many people watching, and it was like, "Oh, no. All these kinds of things that we cannot even [imagine]. But it's a sci-fi movie, so we have the liberty to go for the things that you can only dream of. If you looked at just the close-up of the two of them, we saw the couple in love. And that's the journey we want the audience to go on as well. And as we all know, with the diaspora, the American dream is not always a beautiful dream. We always held each other's hands and said, "We're in this together, we know what we're doing." And when it was presented to me, it was like, I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

Michelle Yeoh has been a star for decades. American audiences will know her as a warrior in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or an icy matriarch in Crazy Rich ...

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