“Doors have opened much wider,” Michelle Yeoh, who was born in Malaysia, said about “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” “This is the first time in many years, apart from the movies that I made in Asia, that I had the lead role.” - NBCAsianAmerica
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The idea is almost confounding to many Asian Americans, who have considered Yeoh and Hong two of the most significant actors in the industry. Yeoh cemented herself as an icon in the golden age of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s before she appeared in Hollywood hits such as “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Crazy Rich Asians.” Hong, who has almost 700 film and television credits, has appeared in classic movies like “Blade Runner” and Disney’s original “Mulan.
It turns out that the frazzled Evelyn is the only one who can stop the mysterious, powerful “agent of chaos” who threatens to destroy the multiverse — one that’s filled with lives she could have led had she not run off to America with Waymond, against the wishes of her father, Gong Gong, played by Hong.
“It’s like I have been training for the last 30-odd years to be able to pull off this role that’s given me an incredible opportunity to showcase all the different dimensions that I believe all of our Asian actors, actresses, our talents, are so capable of, but very rarely do they find a vehicle, a script, a character that’s presented to them,” Yeoh said.
Hong, 93, who is scheduled to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said he can attest to the decadeslong effort for a movie like this to be made. Hong, who has been in the industry for more than 70 years, established the East West Players with a few other Asian American artists in hope of advancing representation in theater.
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