Michelle Yeoh is a subversive superhero in 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Michelle Yeoh talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about her journey through the multiverse, with all its wackiness, wonder and wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Michelle Yo has been a star for decades. She was a warrior in crouching tiger hidden dragon |
| 0:10.1 | A mentor in memoirs of a gaysha you cannot call yourself a true gaysha |
| 0:15.1 | Until you can stop a man and his tracks with a single look and of course |
| 0:19.7 | She was the icy matriarch of a family of crazy rejections pursuing one's passion how American now |
| 0:27.2 | Yo is finally getting her turn at the leading role in a Hollywood film in the new movie |
| 0:33.3 | Everything everywhere all at once written and directed by the duo known as the Daniels |
| 0:38.5 | I am paying attention in it yo plays Evelyn Wong a laundromat |
| 0:45.1 | When you meet Evelyn at the beginning of the movie she is totally stressed out and distracted |
| 0:51.1 | I have to finish all this before I fast you know |
| 0:53.4 | You think she'll go into steam the tablecloth for tonight |
| 0:56.8 | Her marriage to her husband Waymond has stagnated her |
| 1:01.3 | Relationship with her queer daughter Joy is fraught with tension and frustration |
| 1:05.9 | Mom just wait wait wait no time to wait just then and on top of all that her laundromat is about to go under |
| 1:12.5 | Oh, wait, there's more her judgmental fathers in town and she's being audited too |
| 1:18.0 | You need to remind you that there's already a lean on your property |
| 1:20.9 | Free possession is well within our rights. I know |
| 1:24.8 | It's probably easier to say what is going right in her life the minute you meet Evelyn Wong |
| 1:32.1 | That's Michelle yo to her |
| 1:34.8 | Evelyn represents a kind of every woman for me |
| 1:38.1 | She's the woman the mother the auntie the grandmother that you passed by |
| 1:42.6 | You know when you go to the supermarket the almost unseen woman who is like got the weight of the world on her shoulders |
| 1:52.2 | Consider this everything everywhere all at once is a zany |
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