Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. We thought we'd pause for a minute this summer and bring you some of our favorite conversations of the year with people who've been nominated or who have won Academy Awards.

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

She is Michelle Yo.

She won the Oscar for her performance in everything everywhere all at once.

That bizarre, cool, fascinating movie that swept through with 11 nominations and won seven Academy Awards.

Michelle and I got together at this really cool moment on the eve of the Oscars, living in this moment.

So long coming for her, so well deserved for a woman who's been around Hollywood a while and has starred in a whole bunch of really good movies, finally, getting her moment and becoming the first Asian woman ever to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy my conversation with Michelle Yo on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

Michelle, it's great to see you. It's really good to see you again. It's been a couple of months. We saw each other at the National Border Review. Has it been a couple of months already? Yeah, it was January, I think, early January, mid-January, something like that. Oh, we'll march only, right? Okay. Yes, it's already March. It's already March. That was a beautiful night.

It was.

And a beautiful night for you, and you've had so many beautiful nights since then.

In terms of recognition for this performance, how are you feeling as you sit in the middle

of all this right now?

You can see the big grin on my face.

It's been a real roller coaster ride because,

you know, the NBR is, it was easy because you know you're getting an award. So you have

none of that terrifying. Oh, God, what am I going to do if I don't? Right. And it's been fabulous

to see this little film that has such a giant heart be embraced in all these ways.

When the movie came out last March, we had our world premiere in South by Southwest.

We knew we had something magical.

When it went flying up to, you know, when you put it out there, it goes up to the skies,

and please God, don't let it fall flat on its face, and it didn't, and it sawed higher and higher.

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