Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh has found her next starring role in Blade Runner 2099, a limited series for Prime Video. According to Variety, the 61-year-old Oscar winner will play the lead in the sci-fi show, a sequel to both the original Blade Runner film in...
Michelle Yeoh will play a character named Olwen in Blade Runner 2099. The show is a sequel to both the original Blade Runner film in 1982 and its 2017 follow-up Blade Runner 2049.Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh has found her next starring role in Blade Runner 2099, a limited series for Prime Video.
The American entertainment publication reported that the Everything Everywhere All At Once star will play a character named Olwen, described as “a replicant near the end of her life”. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where Earth’s life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, that film follows former “blade runner” Rick Deckard , a police officer who specialises in tracking down synthetic humanoids called “replicants” and executing them.
Yeoh, who recently turned heads at the Met Gala in New York wearing an aluminium foil-inspired Balenciaga gown, will reprise her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Section 31. The TV movie is set for a 2025 release on the streaming platform Paramount+.
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