Michelle Yeoh has been a movie star for decades, appearing in roles ranging from a sword-wielding warrior in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” to an icy matriarch in “Crazy Rich Asians.”
However, the new film “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once,” written and directed by the duo known as the Daniels, marks her first time in the lead role of a Hollywood film.
Yeoh now portrays Evelyn Wang, a stressed-out Chinese laundromat owner. ASK MICHELLE YEOH: Perhaps a more straightforward question would be.
“What is going good in her life?” She’s dealing with a coming-out daughter, a failing business, denial about her father’s harassment, and his trip to China to continue harassing her
All while trying to keep the family together and pretend the business is succeeding (laughter).
CHANG: And the Internal Revenue Service is auditing Evelyn. Waymond, her spouse, then surprises her with yet more information.
Beauty in the Ordinary
Not too far into the genre-bending Michelle Yeoh vehicle Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (A24, 2017), it hits you: this movie is meta.
Evelyn Wang (Yeoh), a Chinese-American businesswoman who is being audited by the IRS, whose relationship with her second-generation daughter is strained.
And whose affable-to-a-fault husband wants a divorce, is suddenly transported to an alternate reality.
This is just one of many that show how her life might have turned out differently had she made different decisions at various points.
From a California tax office, Evelyn suddenly finds herself stepping out of a limousine onto the red carpet of yet another major premiere, dressed as a movie star version of herself.
Yeoh is well aware of how viewers would react to the sequence, which features footage of Yeoh in the flesh at a number of star-studded premieres.
This Evelyn may look like Michelle Yeoh, but she insists on making it obvious that she is not actually Yeoh.
Conclusion
At an early point in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh, it becomes clear how sarcastic the picture is.
Chinese-American entrepreneur Evelyn Wang (Yeoh) is whisked away to an other universe where she finds herself in the midst of an IRS audit.
A tense relationship with her second-generation daughter, and a husband who is friendly to a fault but who wants a divorce.
