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Don Lemon Roasted at Oscars by Michelle Yeoh
"Let me see. Somebody was telling me about this clip earlier is clipped to about an actress who literally taking shots at Don lemon. I wrote a clip. Thank you. Thank you. For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight. This is the Beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that dreams dream big and dreams do come true. And ladies don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime. Do we have to go through this again? So she pretty much criticized Don Lehman for saying that women were past that prop.
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Progressivism Is Regressive
"The words and phrases that no Republicans should use, one of them is progressive. And, you know, people, we like to fight or argue with the left, we argue with them on their territory. They use terms like progressive to mean that we're progressing. Progressivism is regressive. In all actuality, it's actually regressive. There's nothing progressive about defining genders. Saying, we don't know what a gender is. I think we figured that out. A billion years ago. That's not progressive. Saying that, oh, women shouldn't have traditional roles in the household and now you shouldn't get married and the family structure should be broken down. Listen, we went centuries to create the reasonable idea that, hey, maybe two people are better together and it could be more profitable for raising children. So progressivism is actually regressive ism. If that's even a word, gender affirming care, there's no such thing as gender affirming care. It's called, I would argue, is grooming and genital mutilation is what I would call it. Gender affirming care just gives them this overarching idea that this sounds like something that's positive for young people and I really believe that it's not.
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How Adversity Makes You Stronger
"You know, I get frustrated when I see people making excuses for black people. I get frustrated. It's like, how dare you think? That I'm too stupid to navigate this world. What makes you think that I'm too stupid and unaware to not realize that adversity is to my benefit, name somebody that's done some great that haven't had adversity. Name somebody, Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world. Now obviously, obviously he's not the richest man in the world anymore. But he was worth 200 and some $1 billion, and he only owned like 20% of Tesla. 200 some $1 billion. Go look at his story. He was sleeping on the floor and his headquarters. So everybody could see. So they didn't know that he worked just as hard as anybody else. He said, 5 years, he didn't know what was going to happen. You go down a list of all these prominent companies, these businesses, they started from somewhere they had it versus they wanted to give up, but they never did. And that's not a detriment. That's not a oh, I'm a punk out and go cry in the corner and act like this country's been so bad to me because I had a little bit of adversity. It should make you stronger. I would argue that people that face adversity that you should be the strongest people in the United States of America. My father is a perfect example. I remember when he first got on a fire department here, this is the story he told us. He said that he had some discrimination. So I'm going to white guys didn't like the black guys on the police on the fire department. What if my daddy do? He didn't act like the social justice warriors of the day. Man, let me tell you, they treat me wrong because I'm black. My day said, listen, for those who want to act this way, you better watch the way you treat me because you'll be working for me one day. And they were working for him.
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Breaking Down the Victim Mentality
"One thing I want to talk about and I wasn't even going to start the show like this, but I just thought about it right before the break ended was that there's a young lady out here that says she wanted to debate me. Now she, I don't know if she claimed to be a conservative or not, I made a video about her on my YouTube channel because she swore that this country has systems in place that deliberately disenfranchised black people. And she's obviously not black. And it's funny how people who are not black fall in this mysterious category of trying to defend a point to find favor amongst black people because they believe we believe what she's saying. There's no systems necessarily in place to try to thwart or disenfranchise black people. It just doesn't exist. Now, could there be things that disproportionately affect X? Disproportionately affect why, yes. You don't have to be black for these things to affect you. If you are in a community where crime is rampant, it don't matter what color you are, you're going to have more police response. Just two plus two is four. It's not like, I'm going to get crazy on the radio, and I just started. It's not like there's a white area in town that's riddled with violence. And then there's a black area in town that's riddled with violence. And police officers, all the way down from the police chief says, about the white community. It's violence. We'll let it slide. We want to go over here with a black people ahead. And make sure all of our resources are projected in one area.
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"michelle yeoh" Discussed on WTOP
"Everywhere all at once, dominated with 7 Oscars, including best picture and best director for the Daniels while Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win best actress. This is history in the making, thank you. It also won supporting prizes for Jamie Lee Curtis and khui Kwan, who completed his storybook comeback after The Goonies and temple of doom. Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. Thank you so much for welcoming me back. And Brendan Fraser upset Austin butler's Elvis to win best actor for the whale. So this is what the multiverse looks like. See all the winners on WTO be dot com, Jason fraley W two V news. It is one 46 WTO. Four time Grammy winner Drake is hitting the road with rapper 21 savage, the two are kicking off their North American tour in June. It's called it's all a blur tour and it'll stop at the Capital One arena on July the 28 presale beginning today it already has begun today on the cash app. General sales start on Friday, the Canadian rapper singer was Spotify's most streamed artist in the U.S. last year. Got a rep. At least for this day, our brackets look good. The field for the early matchups is set and it's March Madness. So let's check out some regional teams here on Thursday, the 8th seed Maryland Turks will kick off the opening round in a matchup against West Virginia and the University of Virginia, which is a fourth seed faces Furman. On Friday, it's VCU against saint Mary's and for the first time in more than three decades, the Howard bison are in the tournament, facing the Kansas Jayhawks, Howard's head coach, Kenny blakeney, has nothing but respect for the defending champs when speaking with NBC sports. Kansas
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"The top story we're following a huge night at the 95th Academy Awards for a film that snagged 11 nominations. It took home some of the biggest trophies of the night. And the Oscar goes to everything everywhere. Everything everywhere all at once, dominated with 7 Oscars, including best picture and best director for the Daniels while Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win best actress. This is history in the making, thank you. It also won supporting prizes for Jamie Lee Curtis and khui Kwan, who completed his storybook comeback after The Goonies and temple of doom. Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on mine. Thank you so much for welcoming me back. And Brendan Fraser upset Austin butler's Elvis to win best actor for the whale. So this is what the multiverse looks like. See all the winners on WTO be dot com, Jason fraley W two news. The federal government took extraordinary steps this weekend to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley bank assuring all depositors at the failed institution, they could access all of their money quickly on the heels of that regulators announced that New York based signature bank had also failed and was being seized. The two financial institutions have become the second and their largest bank failures in U.S. history. President Biden expects to speak out about the collapse of Nile two banks, California, Silicon Valley bank and signature bank of New York. Mister Biden was in on weekend consultations among his top financial aids treasury secretary Yellen telling face the nation what the administration will not do. During the financial crisis, there were investors and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out and we're not going to do that again. In short, no bailouts. Tom, CBS News, Washington. And we're expecting remarks from President Biden at The White House sometime after 8 this morning. House speaker Kevin McCarthy is now pledging to release surveillance video from the January 6th attack on the capitol to other news organizations after providing it to Fox host Tucker Carlson exclusively. The latest now from WTO's Mitchell Miller. Tucker Carlson has used the video to portray January 6th as a day when people were largely wandering around the capitol. Instead of a day, when people were trying to interfere with certification of the presidential election and attacking law enforcement officers. Speaker McCarthy says he has no regrets about releasing the video. We will slowly roll out to every individual news agency. They can come see the tapes as well. McCarthy speaking on Fox. But even the Senate's top Republican Mitch McConnell has said it was a mistake for Fox to let Carlson downplay what happened. Several other GOP senators have also criticized what Carlson has done. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTO. At least for on this day, our brackets look good. The field for the early matchups is set for March Madness among schools in our region. Thursday, this Thursday, the 8th seed Maryland terfs will kick off the opening round in a matchup against West Virginia, the winner will play number one overall seed Alabama. Also Thursday, the University of Virginia, which is a fourth seed faces Furman on Friday, it's VCU versus saint Mary's. And for the first time in more than three decades, the Howard bison are in the tournament. All right. Facing defending champs, Kansas, wow. In the women's bracket, the second seed Maryland terps will go against holy cross, and number one seed Virginia tech faces Chattanooga. Stick with WTO P sports at 25 and 55 for updates on the tournament. Yes, indeed. For the first time ever, middle schoolers in fairfax county will likely be
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'Everything' wins best picture, is everywhere at Oscars
"Everything everywhere all at once won 7 Academy Awards last night, including best picture. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. Daniel Kwan of the directing team the Daniels says everything everywhere all at once is what the world needs at this moment. It's a shotgun blast of joy and absurdity and creativity. Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and kehoe Kwan won acting awards for their roles in that film. Kwan says he went for years with his agent telling him there was no work for him. Hopefully when I called my agent tomorrow, he would give me a different answer. Brendan Fraser won the best actor award for his role in the whale
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Screen Actors Guild Awards 2023 winners: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' takes best cast
"At once was the big winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday on marches are a letter with the latest. Hollywood likes to look for clues at the award shows leading up to the Oscars for who might win Oscars. If the sag awards are an indicator, everything everywhere all at once will do well in one best ensemble and Michelle Yeoh kehoe kwon and Jamie Lee Curtis won for their roles in it. Yo says it's a triumph for Asian women. This is not just for me. This is for every little girl that looks like me. Brendan Fraser won for his role in the whale in
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"You by long fans, say 15% on Dex pavers and fences. Go to long fence dot com today and schedule your free and home estimate. It's three ten. The Oscars are stacked with newcomers this year. Everything everywhere all at once is up for 11 awards, Elvis got 8 nominations. WTO film critic Jason Frehley shared his thoughts on this year's nominees with Sean and Hillary. I think best actor is stacked this year. It's gonna be so cool to watch. They're all first time nominees, all 5 this year, but I really think it comes down to like three actual contenders. We got Austin butler who became Elvis. I think he still is Elvis in his interviews. Now he never stopped. Brendan Fraser was so good in the whale that sort of his comeback role there. And then of course Colin Farrell for banshees of inus here and a lot of people room for him. I guess I'll go with butler because maybe Lisa Marie Presley dying might tip the scales. As far as best actress, I was really sad to see no Viola Davis for the woman king. She was awesome, or Danielle dead wilder for till, you know, two of the years most powerful performances by strong black women in both guys snubbed, but I think it's gonna come down to Cate Blanchett, who was an amazing and tar as the conductor and or Michelle Yeoh for everything everywhere all at once. If she wins there, that's the clue that of how the night's gonna go. Well, you mentioned a couple of snubs, any other ones that bother you. What bothered me the most was, you know, we had two years in a row of women winning best director. And there were no nominee, no women nominated for director this year, which is crazy in the year of the woman king. She said women talking and after son is an indie movie, but I thought Charlotte wells was one of the best directed movies of the year. So that bug made us see, but you know, the nominees are all great, but I would like to see at least one woman in there. So Jay Frey, do we have a robust best picture race going on? Ever since the years back they expanded it to ten. We're able to fit a few of the mainstream blockbusters in. We have sequels like Avatar the way of water, which is making so many billions around the world in Top Gun: Maverick, which is the big favorite from over the spring summertime. Askers don't tend to reward sequels unless it's like godfather to our Lord of the Rings three. I think it's the only time it happened. So I think that it's really gonna be a battle between what you mentioned. Everything everywhere all at once. She was an indie movie that a lot of people did go to see, and then the fable man's, which is the Steven Spielberg sort of, you know, his most personal movie about his upbringing and falling in love with movies and his family's divorce and all of that. I think it's gonna be interesting to see whether the academy decides to go in like a bonkers direction like everything everywhere. And I don't know if a co director, it's directed by two people, the Daniels, they call themselves. I don't know if a co director's ever done it before, so that's a hurdle to overcome. Or whether they'll go their traditional route, which is sort of the Spielberg route, which it's funny. He's become art house cinema, even though he's the one that invented the blockbuster with jaws. So he's sort of become everything that, you know, he despised or whatever that analogy is. But we'll see how it goes. It's gonna be everything everywhere on the fable ones. I think it's gonna be one of those two. WTO film critic, Jason Frehley, the Oscars would be awarded March 12th. Kansas City state company, another American Eagle dot com success story, started in 1932 as a family owned butcher shop today, they're a leading distributor of superior all American stakes delivered right to your door ready for the grill
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"Everything Everywhere All at Once" tops Oscar nominations with 11
"The sci-fi film everything everywhere all at once leads the Oscar nominations with 11. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. What's happening? Everything everywhere all at once is up for best picture and ten other awards, including Michelle Yeoh for best actress. The other best picture nominees are all quiet on the western front, avatar the way of water, the banshees of inas Sharon, Elvis, the fable men's tar, Top Gun: Maverick, triangle of sadness, and women talking. The Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on March 12th, Jimmy Kimmel will host.
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No, that Golden Globes pianist was not playing over the speeches
"Men's and the Abbott elementary were among the winners at last night's Golden Globe Awards. With the latest, given the controversy the Hollywood foreign press association has dealt with in terms of racism and ethical lapses, Golden Globe host jerod Carmichael did not waste time addressing it. I'll tell you why I'm here. I'm here because I'm black. Audio courtesy of the HFPA and DCP. Acting awards went to Austin butler, Michelle Yeoh, Quinta Brunson, Evan Peters, and Angela Bassett, who acknowledged continuing the Black Panther franchise was tough after the death of Chadwick Boseman. Weeping may come in the evening,
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"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"But I will promise myself and all the people who love me that I will take it and I will learn to protect myself in a much better way and say, oh, guess what? Not doing that. Yeah, right. Well, yeah. And so what could have been a second retirement? I guess that gave you buoyed you a little bit. Just quickly, you know, the obvious question is, why Quentin did you then not cast Michelle in kill Bill? And I've heard him say, because nobody would believe that Uma Thurman could kick Michelle's ass. So that was the absolute truth because the next time I saw him it was like Quentin. You tell me you are my biggest fan. So why was I not casting? Nobody's going to believe. Kick your ass. But it also is probably, I don't know if the chronology exactly would have conflicted, but what then did happen very soon after your accident and then re energizing about being in the movies is that you get a call, I believe, from Barbara broccoli, and Michael Wilson, who oversee the Bond films. And are also, I guess, big admirers of Hong Kong cinema and thought, you know what? It's about time we feature this in some way in the Bond movies, which brings us to the part of weyland in Rogers flattest Woods. Tomorrow never dies, which I will also note was written by Bruce feirstein, who we have here. Who is the husband of Chapman's own Madeleine Juarez.
Fresh Air
"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"With who's just a boy at the time, witnesses the murder and barely escapes with his life. Vowing to return later and kill his uncle. Decades pass, an amleth is now played by the Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård. Who tears into the role with a raw feral hunger. For which his part in the vampire series true blood. Now feels like a warmup act. Years after fleeing home, amleth has become a cold blooded killer. A berserker in old Norse terms. Raiding and plundering villages and Slavic territory. When he learns that his uncle fuel Nur has been dethroned and fled to Iceland, he decides it's payback time. And so he heads to Iceland and passes himself off as a slave, working on fuel nurse farm. But there are complications. In keeping with Hamlet, felner is now married to gudrun, his brother's wife, and amleth's mother. Though she seems submissive at first, good run turns out to be one of the movie's more fascinating creations. Played by Nicole Kidman in her best performance in years. Meanwhile, amleth finds a love interest and an ally in Olga, a fellow slave played by Anya Taylor-Joy, who starred in acres first feature the witch. If you've seen that movie, or its follow-up, the lighthouse. The director's flair for period filmmaking will come as no surprise. Here he brings an ancient civilization to life with obsessive historical research and a staggering attention to detail. The filmmaking is as muscular as skarsgard's frequently blood caked torso. The combat scenes are intensely visceral, but they also play like ancient rituals. Full of intricate choreography and filmed in long, unbroken takes by the cinematographer Jaron blaschke. But the movie, for all its concern for accuracy, is also wildly imaginative. Eggers fully embraces the mysticism of old Norse legends and makes no effort to distinguish between fantasy There are witches and valkyries and undead warriors. Plus an oracle with a wacky headdress, played by none other than Iceland's biggest superstar Björk. And if that isn't proof enough of agers rye sense of humor, he's assembled a supporting cast of actors who aren't afraid to go enjoyably over the top. And whose accents only sometimes land within spitting distance of Scandinavia. That's not a knock. Eggers movies. For all their craft and art film Cred, have always had an irreverent streak. He's a great builder of worlds, but he also likes to dismantle those worlds from within. I loved his attack on puritan repression in the witch. And his critique of blustery male ego in the lighthouse. In the northmen, he both fulfills and questions the conventions of the revenge drama. Amoth may look like a righteous avenger, on par with the warriors of Conan the barbarian, braveheart and Gladiator. But he also turns out to be a more misguided, more deluded hero than he appears. He's just one link in an endless chain of violence. Though it satisfying all the same, to watch him lay claim to his destiny. Justin Chang is film critic for the LA times. He reviewed the northmen. Tomorrow on fresh air, our guests will be CNN anchor Zane Asher. Her new memoir is about her mother, a Nigerian immigrant who survived poverty, famine, and Civil War before coming to England to raise four children in a crime ridden London neighborhood. She was tough at times, but the children did well, Asher's brother, as after chuy tell ejiofor, I hope you'll join us. Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Amy salit, Phyllis Myers, Sam briger, Lauren krenzel, Heidi Simon, Theresa Madden, and we Bo Donato, the Seth Kelly and Joel Wolfram. I'm Terry gross..
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"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"It's such a human depiction, but also a relatable experience. Looking into other paths, your life could have taken. I think all of us at some point or another have daydreamed about the other versions of our lives. Do you ever think about the other paths your life could have been? No. I don't. Because I believe you have to invest in being present because this is the life and you have to make the best of it. And if I think it's okay to, you know, sometimes think, I should have done it differently, but you have to move on, move forwards. And accept that if I am given another opportunity, I will do it better. But I'm not going to dwell on something that I have to like, oh God, I regret doing this because it's already in the past. So it's about moving forwards that's the most important. And if you are not present because I believe in being now that is important and now will dictate how what you're doing moving forwards as well. So I think in this at the end of everything everywhere all at once, what it does remind you is you can't give in. You have to live Michelle Yeoh, thank you so much. Thank you, Tanya. I really enjoy speaking to you and listening to you actually. Michelle Yeoh stars in the new film, everything everywhere all at once. She spoke with fresh air guest interviewer Tanya Mosley, Tonya hosts the podcast, truth be told. Coming up, Justin Chang reviews the new film the northman starring Alexander Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman. This is fresh air. This is fresh air. The new film the northman is a Viking revenge saga starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, an Anya Taylor-Joy. It's the latest movie from the director Robert eggers, who previously made the period dramas the witch and the lighthouse. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review. Back in 1958, the Vikings, a lavish Hollywood production starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Sold itself in its trailer this way. Nothing ever matched its violence. It's vengeance. It's vastness. 64 years and countless Viking movies and TV series later. The mesmerizing new film the northman takes up the challenge. And it has violence, vengeance, and vastness to burn. Mostly set in tenth century Iceland. It tells the brutal story of amleth. A young Viking prince who sets out to avenge his father's death at the hands of his uncle. If that sounds familiar, it's because this legend was the direct inspiration for Shakespeare's Hamlet. And so you know amleth's journey is destined to end in bloodshed and tragedy. But the director Robert eggers, who wrote the script with the Icelandic poet and novelist shone, has a few surprises up his sleeve. The story begins on an island somewhere in the North Atlantic, where the king, played by a scraggly bearded Ethan Hawke. Has returned home from conquests overseas. Not long after, the king is slain by his brother, fieler. Played by the terrific Danish actor cly spang. Before the fatal blow is delivered, the brothers exchange words. And their amusingly ornate dialog gives you some sense of the heightened, poetic.
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"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Ouch, Michelle. Has anyone ever had a conversation with you like this? Not necessarily that you aren't good enough sentiment, but the part about how one needs to kind of put one's own desires on the back burner for the interest of the family. But it is so it's so much part of our culture that that's what she was trying, even from the very first time she met when they were in the kitchen. It's the understanding is like, you know, even though we look alike, but we are not, because you have been brought up in America where you are taught to think for yourself, put yourself first. But she's not saying that it's wrong. It's just that when you are back in Singapore, Malaysia or Hong Kong, the culture that you always put your parents, your grandparents, your family first, before yourself. And that is really what she was trying to explain because this is something that she didn't believe. She would be able to do, she would be able to put her own dreams on the back burner and come to Singapore to if she was to marry the son and help him be successful in his job. If first of all, for his family, you have said that you try not to see yourself in the characters you play. And I'm curious to know what you mean by that because there is such a cultural underpinning to so many of the characters that you choose. I think we often think of actors as using the ways that they are similar to their characters in their acting. Well, I think it's like, for example, with everything everywhere all at once, when I received a script, the character Evelyn Wong was called Michelle Wong. And when I met with the directors, I wanted to see if they were certifiably insane, or they really was going to be my dream, you know, help me fulfill my dream..
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"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Tanya Moseley, and we're talking with award winning actor Michelle Yeoh, about her new film, everything everywhere all at once, where she plays the lead character that moves through several worlds and versions of what her life could be. You mentioned Crazy Rich Asians. That was another very successful film. And you play this matriarch of this rich family in Singapore and you have this son who's studying in the United States, and he brings home an American girlfriend, and you don't think she can measure up. Here is one of your first conversations alone with the girlfriend. Played by Constance Wu. I'm glad I found you. I'm afraid that I've been unfair. Oh, no. You know what? I'm sorry I made an assumption. I didn't mean to offend you. That's not all. You asked about my ring. The truth is, Nick's father had it made when he wanted to propose to me. Because a mom wouldn't give him the family ring. I wasn't her first choice. Honestly, I wasn't her second. Gosh, I'm so sorry. I had no idea. I didn't come from the right family. Have the right connections. And I'm a thought I would not make an adequate wife to her son. But she came around, obviously. It took many years. And she had good reason to be concerned, because I had no idea the work. And the sacrifice it would take. There were many days when I wondered if I would ever measure up. But having been through it all..
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"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"The danger the repercussion if things did not go right. Because I only knew how to focus on how to get the stunt done properly. I was probably too fearless for my own good. Plus the fact that physically and mentally I was so fit, so that egged me on because I did feel that I had a lot of things to prove, to stay in this, what was the boy's club? And to constantly demonstrate that I deserve to be there. Right, you're actually quoted as saying in my younger days, I took more risks than necessary because I thought I had something to prove. I had to convince people I was capable of being up there with actors like Jet Li and Jackie Chan. I mean, you're certainly up there, Michelle. I think a better question may be to ask you is that is that something that's still drives you? I think what does is like must be able to do the best of my ability. That is what drives me. It's like if I agree to do something, it must be to the best of my ability. But I do assess whether it's a script, whether it's a character, and especially if it's a son, the reason for it, and should I be doing that? In the old days, there was not so much the thought for safety as much as there is now. It was much more, how do we make a much more dynamic, a bigger stunt that the audience will be satisfied with? That was much more the intention of the stunt coordinators, the actors that and constantly, all of us would be injured in some way or another. But today, with the help of CG, with the help of rehearsal time and things being done in a safer environment, we are much better protected..
Fresh Air
"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"This is fresh air. I'm Terry gross. Let's get back to our interview with Michelle Yeoh. She stars in the new sci-fi action comedy everything everywhere all at once. She plays a put upon Chinese American mom whose business and marriage are failing when she discovers that she can travel between dimensions of the multiverse and experience different versions of her life. Use other films include Hong Kong action movies like super cop, the James Bond film tomorrow never dies, crouching Tiger, hidden dragon, and Crazy Rich Asians. She spoke with our guest interviewer, Tanya Moseley. You know, one question I didn't even ask you, we jumped from you studying dance to you being in these big films, but what was the event that turned you into an action star? My first movie, I played a social worker. And we were bullied by the juvenile delinquents who took great pleasure in teasing us and giving us a hard time. And then the guys who were the martial arts experts were the ones who would rescue us constantly. So when I watched them, I went to my producers and I say, you know what? I would love to be able to try to do martial arts. They looked at me and thought I was insane. Then they thought, well, you know, she's a foreign girl. She must be insane. But then they thought, well, what do we have to lose? But they did a very good. They packaged me with the top comedians so that at least if I had failed badly, the movie would still have a chance to be successful because the comedians were very well known in Hong Kong. So I think the only thing I said was if I fight, I have to fight. You can not differentiate. It's a girl fighting or a boy fighting. She's fighting for the reason of and so they made me a cop, a detective. So when she would be faced with dangerous situations, there was a good reason for her to be showing these kinds of skills. So I went into training with the stunt boys and all that. And I think they were very curious to see this young girl who wanted to play in their sandbox..
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"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Do you ever think about an alternative universe where you became a dancer? Do I think? You know what? I don't, because, you know, I found another door and I'm in this universe where I am enjoying so much new things that I never actually I never when I was a child. We used to go to the cinemas all the time. And if you had asked that kid, would you want to be up there on the big screen and be an actress? I would have told you no. I never dreamt of myself up there. But when I was given the opportunity, I just embraced it. And when, you know, why not? I think this could be something fun to try. And with not with a lot of training as an actor, I was thrown literally I was thrown in the deep end. And I learned to swim. I'm thinking about your physicality and I actually read somewhere that your early films didn't even have scripts. So no dialog at all. Yes, this was the old days in Hong Kong and the 80s. They made movies so quickly. They had a very simple formula if it was an action movie, a comedy and they churned them out in like weeks. I mean, we would be filming on Monday, the movie would be out by Friday. Midnight. And that was how they worked. They worked fast. And the other good thing was nobody really knew my voice. At the beginning of my career, because they had someone dub it. Because you know, we didn't record, we didn't have single sound at that time. So to make it to be able to be so quick, it's like sometimes we would go on the scene and go one, two, three, four, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, ten. You know, and look in different directions. This is terrible. I shouldn't be telling telling all these stories. But at that time, that was that was the craziness of the glory days in the old style of Hong Kong filmmaking. But there were the exceptions. I mean, there were amazing scripts that were still being shot. Then we had some of ours where we had no scripts. You know, it was just the writer or director writing it as we were filming. Well, it sounds like things were moving so fast. But it was the same for the action sequences. We don't have rehearsal time. So we would get all dressed up, we would go to the set. And our son coordinators and stunt guys would be choreographing it because they arrived that day and they choreograph what they are given with, they look at the set and they will decide what will happen on the spot. And then we will learn it and shoot it. So, you know, that was never any rehearsals. And I remember the first time when I was doing tomorrow never dies in 1997, I love her to death, Barbara broccoli, and Michael Wilson, my producers. Said, well, you know, we would love to see how you know the Hong Kong style of martial arts in the bomb movie..
Fresh Air
"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"The good news was they turn around and they say, let's start again. Let's do this. And because the Daniels are surrounded by very, very strong women. So I think they took great pleasure and I think it's an homage to all the strong women who are around them. And they made themselves as the villains antagonists in this story. Which I thought was really, really delightful. And in the film, your daughter who is played by Stephanie Hughes looking as we said for mother that she can connect with in every universe and your character Evelyn doesn't really want to repeat the alienation she felt from her parents growing up, but even still she's doing that. There's this scene where your daughter is leaving the laundromat. And you want to give her one piece of parting advice. Can you describe to us what you were saying to her? And ultimately how she interpreted it. You know, this was the, I think a lot of immigrant parents, the first generation. One, they come here. They have to make a conscious choice for the next generation. It's like, do we hold on very firmly to all our cultural language and everything, and we stick to a group of immigrants as well. Or do we make them or help them blend in? So that they will be able to fit in better. So I think it's a very, very hard choice. And I think it's not just the first generation immigrants. I think parents even today from different cultures face the same thing. If we want them to fit in better, maybe they should just speak English. But then it's a shame if they don't speak their own language, which is what you find with joy in everything everywhere all at once. It's like she has she has morphed into a true American ABC American born Chinese in that sense. So she doesn't really speak the language. And the worst thing is we find that a lot of Asian parents, especially the older generation, they don't really give they are more critical in the sense that the feeling is, if I tell you you are great in everything, then you will walk away and you don't need to learn anymore. Because I'm already so great. So they always say like in this scene that you're describing. She wants to talk to her daughter. She wants her to understand that, you know, she accepts the fact that she is gay..
Fresh Air
"michelle yeoh" Discussed on Fresh Air
"This is fresh air. I'm Terry gross. Our guest Michelle Yeoh has been a movie star for decades. She's appeared in Hong Kong action films 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 Yeoh spoke to fresh air guest interviewer, Tanya Mosley. When Michelle Yeoh 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. Michelle Yeoh embodies Evelyn through this multiverse, while telling the story of a woman contending with her own life choices. Michelle Yeoh, welcome back to fresh air. Hello, Tanya. Thank you for having me today. You know, Michelle, people love this film, but it's also kind of difficult to describe what it's about. How do you do it? You are right. It is very difficult. It's like 5 genres of in one movie is a science fiction. It's comedy is drama is action. It's a little horror. But I think the core of the story is about a mother and daughter through all the multi universes..
They Call Us Bruce
"michelle yeoh" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"Her family, and it all comes back together. All right, we are being told that we are running out of time. So we're gonna do a quick round of the good, the bad and the WTF. So Jeff, would you lead us through that? So this is our lightning round at this point. It's our roundtable format and we take a single topic and serve it up three ways. And we're just gonna ask you Michelle for the good and the bad and the WTF of making everything everywhere all at once. So just give us the positive thing that you remember, the negative thing. And the thing you're still kind of reflecting on and puzzling over. And then we'll wrap things up. Well, what? The good, the good was like all came together. We all connected. We all did this out of love, you know, from every morning it was with the cast and crew. We all had a warm up exercise and everybody. You know, when you are sometimes the crew that you are behind the scenes, you never get, you're not seeing. But that was that good thing of where the Daniels and Jonathan Wong, you know, brought everybody together and say, we are the everything bagel and we all match. And that was the good. The bad. The bad. Who was the best? Who was the bad? You know, what is bad? What is bad in this movie? That was no bad. I mean, a bad experience or I got a meltdown. Bad for the dead news because they think, oh no, she's not getting up the floor. Why is she down there? It's like, oh, this is bad for us. Jonathan Wong. He's having a little crisis. I was doing that butt plug fight. Oh, God. Come on. Guys. Can you imagine me? Like, I'm fighting with Andy Lee. He's trying to take his pants off. I am a serious martial artist. What the hell am I doing? And then the next minute, I have bloody Brian with the. And you think like, oh, this is bad. This is bad. That's also a WTF. What is my mom going to say? Like, oh my God. And what the F, what the F I guess every day we look at each other, the Daniels, the orbits are like, what the F, let's just go for it, man. Also, that's perfect. That is so perfect. Michelle Yeoh, it has been an honor and a pleasure. You are brilliant in this movie. Everything everywhere all at once. And we can't wait to see where this movie takes everybody. It's so wonderful. And I got to say, watch it second and third time. We're constantly watching it. And I got to say, just on a personal basis, you are a special person to me because we actually have the same last name in Chinese. So you've always been my big sister. So thank you so much for making this happen. Thank you..
They Call Us Bruce
"michelle yeoh" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"Actually is the interesting part. Thank you. Thank you. That's a really, really good insightful comment on it because remember, when the Daniel set out to write this drop, this everything everywhere, all at once, they wrote, they wrote it for me. It was me and my. Like, this is, you know, we love science fiction. We love martial arts. We love comedy. We love physical comedy. We want bromance. We want drama. And so they said, well, we believe Michelle Yeoh who else. Thank you. That's what baseball. That's what they truly believe that, you know, and hopefully Michelle was crazy enough to think that I wanted to challenge on all these different levels because you know I have not done or seen this before. And you're right, it's a very unique, original kind of storytelling, but they can do it because it's set in a science fiction world. Once it's in that world, you will accept you understand what is a multiverse. Okay, I give in the older generation has a little bit of like, okay, I'm trying to figure it out. You know, like doing weird things like, what is weird? But the young, this generation, they get it right away. You don't even have to explain it. While the older generation is like being an intellectual, I am trying to explain. I'm like, no, no, no, no. Just be Evelyn Wong, because she has no, and you're right. But our failures also make us who we are. And it is her failures of Evelyn Wong that makes her receptive to all the different things she could have made to have done better. So every choice that we make does come out in play out in a different way. So when the Daniels wrote this, they did have me in mind. So that's why there's so much reflection of Michelle Yeoh, the actress. But I drew the line when I said, this character is not called Michelle won. You can not remind the audience constantly that this is Michelle Yeoh, because Michelle Wong, Evelyn Wong deserves the voice. She deserves the right to have this platform to show a very ordinary woman can have and find yourself worth to have the superpower to reunite and save the people that she loved, which is her daughter joy. The core of the story, the mother and daughter relationship. Then, you know, to understand and respect the husband that she gave up everything because she loved him, but along the way you know how it is with relationship is constant work. It's constant communication and understanding. And you know when she looks at him and he's like, stop being a silly fool, you know? Entertaining. We have a business to run. Don't sing sing with them. You know, it's like stop putting Googly eyes. What is so funny about Googly eyes? It's not funny. When you have the weight of the world on your shoulders. But if you can step back and say, actually, these kind of funny. And it's okay to have fun. And that was what she discovered, not just her own self worth, and it's okay to fail at things because we are human beings. Are we expected to be the perfect version? There is no perfection. And that maybe is reflected in your party. When she thought she was perfection, then nothing matches anymore because nothing is interesting. There is no one to talk to. Everybody are just like cheap following behind him. What was she looking for? Her mother. The one connect. We are always looking for the one we love. Whether we know it or not, or whether we want to admit it or not. And I think that's just what it is. It's like sometimes throw your pride out the window, the window, you know, put the ego and dig a hole and bury it and step back and have the superpower of kindness. Well, the extraordinary thing about this role to sort of layer onto what Phil said is, I don't think that in your career, it really ever played a character with this kind of an aspect of not being successful, not being control settings, not being somebody who sort of stands above. In fact, a lot of the roles you've done have been incredible and iconic mother figures, right? Going back to even like crouching Tiger hidden dragon or obviously craters Asians and even Shang-Chi, people who are sort of mentors to other people. But in some ways, there is that sense in which this role does represent like you mentioned, the first time you've been at the very center of the universe in this particular way. And it feels almost like all those multiversal Michelle yos, right? Without all of those manifestations, could we have gotten to this Evelyn Wong? That's very, that's a really sneaky question. Well, I mean, I think as an actor, you draw on your experiences and for me, not just my personal experiences, but the people that I see around me, they inspire me. They give me, you know, the concept of what, because I am not an Evelyn walk. I did not have, you know, I did not burden the hardship of being here and having a failing business in that way. I've been very, very blessed. But does that mean that I can not play a role like that? I think that is the beauty of the challenge of being an artist. It's like being able to step into shoes, hey, if you ask to play a psychotic killer, it doesn't mean that you are one. Right? So that is your challenge. If you want to be an actor, you act for a song. You have to be multifaceted. You have to be able to, I think the biggest challenge is whether you are bold enough or courageous enough to take that dive into a place that you don't know about. But you are willing to learn and you're willing to do it with, you know, I have to the Jamie Lee Curtis. The freaking Jamie Lee coaches with me. I mean, and then we are in a hot dog universe. You're like, what the hell? It's like, come on, no, Darnell, Daniel, know what hot dog fingers. You're blowing. But that was exactly what it was. It's like, every time you make a decision, it splints us off into another universe, and how do you know how that universe evolves? But that is what the Daniels blowing your minds up is like we evolved into God knows what. We are a rock in a rock universe. We could be a spaghetti or a pasta in another universe. And in this universe, we have digits that are like floppy and useless and they're hot dogs. But Jamie and I looked at that that particular universe, it was a love story. It was a hot, breaking love story. Where these two people felt all Evelyn and that universe felt that this love wasn't working out. And it was breakup time. And then we have that meeting that she's like. You know, when you read it, it's like ketchup and mustard and then you're like it was beautiful. But you're right. Because emotionally, you engaged with us. Every universe had their real emotions. Every Evelyn in all the different universes was true to who she was. And that is the threat that, you know, whenever we, however crazy it got, but that emotional thread of love and belief and trust pulls you back into her universe of who she is and how she found herself and her self worth and.
They Call Us Bruce
"michelle yeoh" Discussed on They Call Us Bruce
"Hello and welcome to another edition of they call us Bruce, not filtered conversation about what's happening in Asian America. I'm Phil you. And I'm Jeff Yang and I'm catching my breath. I always say we have a special guest and our guests are wonderful, but we honestly are blown away by the fact that on this episode of this podcast, we have none other than the amazing Michelle Yeoh with us. You boys are so sweet. Hi. My heart is racing so fascinating. But the introduction is she is obviously a superstar actress and icon and of course the star of everything everywhere all at once. The movie that we've been talking about for a little while now, but we'll be talking with even more just starry eyed goodness today because we're talking with you, Michelle. Thank you so much for joining us. Absolutely. I mean, you're talking about a movie that I adore everything all at once. It's like one of, oh my God, like the wackiest craziest movie that I've ever done and done with such amazing talents like the Daniels and Stephanie and Jamie Lee Curtis. Amazing James hall. You know? We had the most brilliant crew as well. Yes, absolutely. But obviously the center of it all literally the center of that universe is you and we wanted to just remind people that you have been around for a while and the things you've done have already been I know, right? But you know, you've done incredible things. You've been a part of so many just amazing, amazing movies. And we just wanted to maybe begin by taking a look back at that storied career, did you ever think that you would be doing a movie like this when you first started acting? And that started of acting also was a bit of a jump, right? Because, you know, you began as a winner of beauty pageants and a dancer and there are a lot of things that went into the start of this career. Right. Oh my God, are we going there? Yes, you are right. I started my career in Hong Kong in 1980 three, I would say. So yes, it is a long time. It's almost 40 years when you guys were not even able to so I have been around for a long time. I have seen amazing things. I have experienced amazing wonderful opportunities. But I think the first thing I will say is Evelyn Wong is Evelyn Wong. She is not Michelle Yeoh. Evelyn Wong was written with such love and respect. She's your most unlikely hero. When the Daniels set off to write this script. It was about a aging Asian woman, immigrant woman, who left her country with a man she loved. Much to the dismay and disappointment of her parents, especially her father, who literally just disowned her for having the audacity to disobey him, right? In that generation, you do not disobey your parents. You literally just do what they tell you to do simply because they can and not just because they feel that it is right, but because if you are this, you should be that. Without question or anything. But she came out with women, her husband, Raymond Wong, with for the American Dream, thinking we are going to have, we are going to make a better life. We are going to start a family and with that we are going to give our child the best future possible. That's what all the immigrants do. That is the American Dream. But how many actually realize that dream? And how many actually have failed, but some continue to strive to succeed because not just for themselves, but for their children. So this story about Evelyn Wong is definitely not a Michelle Yeoh. It is the voice that deserves to be heard. She is a very, very ordinary woman. And who we walk by when we go to the supermarket or when we are in the, you know, when we're in Chinatown, the mother, the aunties, the grandmother, who is determined to go about her day to make sure that her family is going to be fed well, you know, looked after well and that's what she does. She's way down. If you look at Evelyn Wong, she doesn't walk upright. Held high. She's bend over with the responsibility of the work. She is her body her spine is almost slightly askew because she carrying all those heavy long tree that she's doing and she's struggling with all her might to understand or even try and talk to her daughter, which is just the core of this movie, the daughter and mother relationship. And the inability of these two generations to even have a simple conversation. I went and hugged my mom as soon as I saw this. We have achieved something because that's what it is. It's like, how do we start a conversation? We know you love each other. But every time the worlds come out, it's like when she says to her daughter, you need your fat. It's because she's like, if you slim down, you will look better, and you will have a better way, okay? My mom, when I go back, she's like home her head is like, hello, mom. That one you want to say to me, or why are you so dark? Why did you and you're going like, oh, I love you, too. Can I just have a hug? You know, it's the way of expressing care, concern. Because if I tell you I'm the one, the mother feels that I'm the one who can criticize you because it comes from honesty and love. And that's the only way you can improve. And if you improve yourself, you will have better opportunities. You will be able to face the world as a stronger person. So when I asked the actress Michelle received a script like this, I was overwhelmed. In the last while God, too long, I have not done a script where I was offered to in America where I was the number one, the lead in that way, right? And not just that. I mean, yes, I do very important supporting roles or whatever. But as a aging Asian woman, it's like, why are the wrongs not out there? Why is it relegated that only the older guys can be the superhero? Why can't all the women be superheroes as well? So it was very important to be seen and recognized and loved in that way. So I adore my Daniels, the font, having the courage to write it, and then a 24 having the courage and the trust in us that we can pull it off. And that's what people can find relatable and want to see. So here we are. I think that, you know, this role is unlike anything anyone has ever seen you really do before. In that Evelyn Wong is in her utter mediocrity, actually, you know, is so not good at anything. Right. And yet, I feel like there is a self reflexive nature because you are starring as Evelyn. So when people watch this, they bring to it all this other stuff that they've seen you in. And that's actually reflected in the multiverse, right? So we know you as all these other things that we get to see you in a little bit shades here and there in the movie. But at the center, you know, mediocre Evelyn..