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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Michelle Yeoh (March 2023)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Yeoh has swept through awards season, winning the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award and just about every other trophy they give out for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once, the one-of-a-kind movie that is nominated for 11 Academy Awards. The 60-year-old actress now getting her due, after a long career that has included memorable roles in movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha and Crazy Rich Asians. In this week's Sunday Sitdown, Michelle and Willie got together in New York. (Original broadcast date March 5, 2023.)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sitdown Podcast.

0:09.5

My thanks is always for clicking and listing along.

0:12.3

We thought we'd pause for a minute this summer and bring you some of our favorite conversations

0:16.8

of the year with people who've been nominated or who have won Academy Awards.

0:22.1

And we begin with the woman who won the trophy for Best Actress.

0:26.7

She is Michelle Yo.

0:29.4

The Oscar for her performance and everything everywhere all at once.

0:33.6

That bizarre, cool, fascinating movie that swept through with 11 nominations and one

0:40.4

seven Academy Awards. Michelle and I got together at this really cool moment on the

0:45.2

eve of the Oscars, living in this moment so long coming for her, so well-deserved for a woman

0:51.8

who's been around Hollywood a while and has starred in a whole bunch of really good movies.

0:56.0

Finally, getting her moment and becoming the first Asian woman ever to win the Academy Award

1:02.5

for Best Actress. So sit back, relax, and enjoy my conversation with Michelle Yo on the Sunday Sitdown

1:09.6

Podcast. Michelle, it's great to see you. It's really good to see you again. It's been a couple of

1:15.7

months. We saw each other at the National Board of Review. Has she been a couple of months already?

1:19.9

Yeah, it was January. I think early January and mid-January.

1:23.3

March only, right? Yeah, it's already March. It's already March.

1:28.5

That was a beautiful night. And a beautiful night for you and you've had so many beautiful nights

1:34.0

since then in terms of recognition for this performance. How are you feeling as you sit

1:38.9

in the middle of all this right now? And you can see the big dinner on my face. It's been

1:43.7

and a real roller coaster ride because you know the NBR is it was easy because you know you're

1:51.1

getting in awards. So you have none of that terrifying oh god what am I going to do if I don't?

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