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Michelle Yeoh can finally be herself: ‘Thank you for seeing me’

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh discusses tokenism, aging, her dangerous early-career stunts, and “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? It's Mustafa Oriano. If you're paying attention to last night's Academy Award

0:08.8

ceremony, then you probably know by now that Michelle Yo won best actress for her performance in

0:13.9

everything, everywhere, all at once. The win makes her the first ever Asian woman to win an

0:19.8

Oscar in that category.

0:22.7

About damn time.

0:27.9

To mark the occasion, we're sharing her recent interview from our sister podcast, The Envelope.

0:30.4

I'll let my colleague Mark Olson take it from here.

0:31.7

Go, Michelle.

0:38.8

I'm here today with someone who genuinely needs no introduction.

0:40.0

Michelle, yeah.

0:41.1

Hello, Mark.

0:50.3

And Michelle, I just want to say congratulations to you on all the awards and the tremendous, you know, reception that everything, everywhere all at once, has gotten this year.

0:51.6

Yes, thank you.

0:54.7

And now fans and critics have just absolutely loved the movie.

0:59.5

It's been the highest grossing film for the distributor, 824. It's gotten all this attention during award season. Through all this, what has been most surprising to you? Like, has there

1:04.1

been something in the response to the movie that you didn't expect? Whoa, wow, that's a loaded

1:09.0

question. I think, you know, when you get a story like this and immediately you feel in your guts,

1:14.8

whoa, it is chaotic.

1:17.7

I mean, you have hot dog fingers thrown at you.

1:20.6

Then you read, oh, my God, what?

1:22.1

They're using dildos and what?

1:24.3

Bud plugs?

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