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Oscar nominee Michelle Yeoh

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Yeoh is no fan of glass ceilings. Neither her age, nor her nationality, nor her gender can stop her from taking Hollywood by storm. Fresh off a Golden Globe award for her virtuoso performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Yeoh leads the list of contenders for this year’s Best Actress Oscar. Her star vehicle is an idiosyncratic movie about a Chinese laundromat owner thrust into a mission to save all possible universes. Yeoh joins Christiane in London to discuss the film and her action-packed career.  Also on today's show: authors Jihyun Park & Seh-Lynn Chai; Emmy-award winner Eddie Izzard  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ammonpour. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

This is Wang.

0:10.0

This is Wang. Mrs. Wang, are you with us?

0:15.0

Michelle Yo is suddenly everything everywhere all at once,

0:20.0

from winning a golden globe to an Oscar nomination.

0:22.8

And now she's here talking about her extraordinary career

0:26.2

Renaissance.

0:27.4

Then, we never really talk about old universities,

0:30.1

we only talk about the regime and the leaders. An insider's view of life in North Korea.

0:35.0

Sarah Sidner speaks with the author

0:37.8

Jehoun Park and her translator,

0:40.2

Ceilin Chai, about her hard road out of the Hermit Kingdom.

0:45.0

And boy, talk about great expectations how Eddie Isar distills Dickens' massive masterpiece into a one- woman show. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London.

1:13.2

Actress Michelle Yeo is no fan of glass ceilings.

1:16.7

Neither her age nor her nationality nor her gender can stop her from taking Hollywood by storm.

1:23.2

Fresh off a Golden Globe Award

1:25.1

for her virtuoso performance in everything, everywhere, all at once.

1:29.4

Yow leads the list of contenders

1:31.5

for this year's best actress Oscar.

1:34.0

Her Star Vehicle is an idiosyncratic movie about a Chinese laundromat owner

1:39.0

thrust into a mission to save all possible universes.

1:43.0

So no pressure there.

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