Michelle Yeoh almost quit acting before launching into iconic roles, with a possible Oscar nomination for her performance in 'Everything Everything All at Once.'
During her career, Yeoh told Time that she had to “battle” a Hollywood that offered her parts that were stereotypes of Asians or harmful tropes of Asian women.Advertisement‘We have to stand up for ourselves and be courageous enough to have a voice,’ said Michelle Yeoh, star of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’
Years before landing her first Hollywood role, Yeoh, 60, was already a movie icon in Asia. She had starred in popular Hong Kong action films throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, becoming famous for doing her own stunts. In the late 1990s, Yeoh was ready to call it quits after getting married, planning to have children and after several injuries on set. Yeoh told Time that she reversed course after a conversation with director, who visited her while promoting “Pulp Fiction.” He geeked out in front of Yeoh, reciting all her action sequences, she recalled.
Yeoh then crossed over to American cinema with the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” in which she plays Bond’s equal. She continued to win over American audiences with her supporting roles in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” several Marvel films and “Crazy Rich Asians.
It wasn’t until this last year that Hollywood began to recognize her as a top-billed actor, seen for her acting abilities beyond what white audiences expect of Asian performers. In “Everything Everywhere All at Once” she starred as Evelyn Quan Wang, the universe-jumping owner of a struggling laundromat.that went viral on social media, a tearful Yeoh said her role as Evelyn “was something I had been waiting for for a long time,” to show audiences “what I am capable of.
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