This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.

Our guest, Michelle Yo, has been a movie star for decades.

She's appeared in Hong Kong action film since the 1980s.

She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress

for her work in the 2000 film, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Her other movies include the Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies,

Crazy Rich Asians, and her new film, The Science Fiction Comedy,

Everything Everywhere, All At Once.

Michelle Yo spoke to Fresh Air guest interviewer, Tanya Mosley.

When Michelle Yo read the script for Everything Everywhere, All At Once,

she gave a big sigh of relief and said finally,

a project that would allow her to be the lead and show everyone

what she was capable of, playing a multi-dimensional character

who could be sad, real, and funny.

Everything Everywhere, All At Once, follows Evelyn Wong,

a Chinese-American immigrant mother who made a decision decades ago

to leave her parents behind and follow her boyfriend to America.

Years later, Evelyn is living out the underwhelming consequences

of that decision until she is presented with alternate versions

of her life, from the glamorous life of an actress

to a martial arts expert and an even wackier alternate path

where people have hot dogs for fingers.

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