ICONE ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ actress is ready for the Oscars
Michelle Yeoh in Westwood, California — Billy Bennight
It’s a consecration for Michelle Yeoh. The actress is on the cover of the prestigious TIME magazine which awarded her; one of his most important accolades: Icon of the Year. After 40 years of career, the 60-year-old actress caused a sensation in the film Everything Everywhere All at Once. This Russo Brothers production, in which she plays the lead role of a Chinese immigrant who discovers that other versions of her exist in parallel worlds, made competition as unexpected as unseen at the Marvel and DC stables, until now; masters of the genre.
If Michelle Yeoh is feeling a little “overwhelmed” by all the buzz she is causing, she has the Oscars in her sights. Not for an extra personal victory, but for the community. Asian, so underrepresented in screen.
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“I thought about it. And not just me, I feel like my whole community Asian thought about it. They come to me and say, “You’re doing it for us.” It’s not that I need it. It’s that feeling you don’t have to live with. explain: it’s love for others. My arms are open,” at TIME which devotes a long subject to it.
Michelle Yeoh thinks her origins shouldn’t be a topic of discussion, but she finds that her success in the industry as an Asian actress “ a fight.”.
“I look at my peers, Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Helen Mirren, and I say to myself, ‘Oh my God, I envy all the different opportunities you have to show your talent again and again,”” she added.
In fact, this role of Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once, she wears it with fervor. “When you have an opportunity; like this, you have to pour your heart and soul into it, because you don’t know when the next chance will come. I think that’s my biggest fear: please don’t let this be the last,” she said.
Michelle Yeoh is on her way to the Oscars. The nominees will be announced on January 24.