Michelle Yeoh Has Always Been A Legend. Still, Her Oscar Win Means Everything.
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Michelle Yeoh has long been an icon and a legend, with or without an Oscar. She remembered joking with them: “‘Yeah, the flight here was 13 hours long, so I learned.’” Actress Michelle Yeoh in mid-air over the famous Hollywood sign in November 1998 in Los Angeles, California. And in recent years, she’s starred in multiple movies that have been landmarks for Asian representation in Hollywood: “Crazy Rich Asians,” the first studio movie with a majority Asian cast in 25 years, which went on to shatter box office records; and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings,” the first Asian-led Marvel movie. “I was so intrigued, and I was so overwhelmed by the fact that these two young men had written a story for an older woman — an older, immigrant Asian mother — and basically, at the end of the day, in fact, gave her superpowers,” Yeoh told me last year, describing the first time she read writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan’s script. The cast of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" — Harry Shum Jr., Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Michelle Yeoh, and Jamie Lee Curtis — at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Feb. 26.
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