“This is proof that dreams do come true,” Michelle Yeoh said in her speech, receiving cheers in response. “And ladies, don’t let anyone tell you that you are past your prime.”
to play the lead, a put-upon laundromat owner—with Yeoh playing Chan’s wife—but Yeoh said she scoffed at that idea. “I’m like, no way,” the actor recalled toSo the filmmakers switched up the roles, making Yeoh the immigrant laundromat owner who deals with a failing business and a fractured relationship with her daughter. In a supernatural twist, she transverses universes as a superhero version of herself.
“Think about it,” Yeoh said in the same interview with Swisher. “This is the first time you’re seeing an older Asian immigrant woman being the superhero, having the opportunity to demonstrate these kind of martial arts skills. It’s normally, yes, for a younger version. It could have been a girl. But in general, it’s always an older man.”
Both Yeoh and the film have been 2023’s awards darlings—with Yeoh nabbing a Golden Globe and beating out her primary competitor, Blanchett, to win the Independent Spirit Award and the National Board of Review trophy.earned 11 Oscar nominations, more than any other film this year, with other acting nominations going to Yeoh’s costarsYeoh had another historically significant win in late February, when she became the first Asian actor to win the best-actress category at the SAG Awards.
Shortly after receiving her Oscar nod, Yeoh referred to the Asian community’s long history of exclusion from Hollywood’s glitziest awards show. “Ninety-five years of Oscars…Of course, I’m over the moon, but I feel a little sad because I know we know there have been amazing actresses from Asia that came before me, and I stand on their shoulders,” the actor told“I hope this will shatter that frigging glass ceiling to no end, that this will continue, and we will see more of our faces up there.”
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