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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Michelle Yeoh

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 52 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.9

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:14.6

My guest today is the Oscar nominated actress, Michelle Yo, nominated for the extraordinary

0:21.4

movie Everything Everywhere All At Once.

0:24.8

If you haven't seen it, I won't attempt to begin to explain it to you.

0:29.0

It is a completely original piece of work.

0:32.1

I'll just tell you this.

0:34.2

She plays a character named Evelyn, who owns a laundromat, a Chinese immigrant in the

0:38.8

United States, and has drawn into the multiverse, a series of parallel universes where she gets

0:45.8

to see different versions of her own life.

0:48.0

It's sort of a thing where if you'd taken this turn, you would have been this.

0:51.0

If you'd done this or not met that person or left that person, here's what your life

0:55.3

would have looked like.

0:56.3

She gets a look at it with very high stakes.

0:58.9

It's about as well as I can explain it.

1:01.2

She'll try too.

1:02.2

It is such a cool and completely different movie than anything I think you've probably

1:07.9

ever seen.

1:08.9

Certainly, then I have.

1:10.6

And she is just great in it.

1:13.0

Just won the SAG Award, already won the Golden Globe Award.

1:17.1

If I started to list all of them, we'd be here all day.

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