“Everything Everywhere All At Once”: Michelle Yeoh doesn’t want a sequel

“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Michelle Yeoh doesn’t want a sequel

Michelle Yeoh (60) rejects hopes for a second part of “Everything Everywhere All At Once”. “There is no sequel,” she said in a talk at the Cannes Film Festival. “We would only repeat ourselves”. The multiverse spectacle surprisingly won seven Oscars this year. Among them were awards for best picture and for leading actress Yeoh.

A lot has changed for Michelle Yeoh after her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and winning the Oscar. She is now also being offered scripts in which her character is not explicitly identified as Asian.

Oscar opened the door for Asian actresses

In the Cannes talk, she said that winning an Oscar, as the first Asian woman, opened the door for other actresses from the continent. “The day I won I really heard the cheers coming from this corner of the world,” said the Malaysian. “It was slowly moving in this direction, and that pushed the door open, and it won’t close behind me.”

For Michelle Yeoh, this calls for a rethinking of Asians in the film business. “In the past, when there were so few roles, there was a lot of competition. If you get the job, I don’t get it,” says the actress. Now it must be: “If I’m successful, you can be successful too.”

Winning an Oscar for an Asian actress was unthinkable just a few years ago?

An Oscar success for a film like Everything Everywhere All At Once, which relies on a mainly Asian cast, would have been unthinkable five to 10 years ago, according to Yeoh. When her 2000 film “Tiger and Dragon” became a global hit, none of the actors had been nominated for an Oscar. And this despite the fact that the film was nominated for a total of ten Academy Awards.

A turning point came with “Crazy Rich”. Set primarily in Singapore, the romantic comedy became a surprise hit in 2018. The mainly Asian cast also included Michelle Yeoh.

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