Do not tell Michelle Yeoh what to do, says Michelle Yeoh
The Oscar-nominee said some fools told her to retire before Everything Everywhere All At Once
People love to boss others around. But why they think they can tell Michaelle Yeoh what to do is beyond us. The Oscar-nominee is currently riding high on the road to the Academy Awards, where her high-energy postmodern kung fu epic, Everything Everywhere All At Once, is nominated for 11 little gold men. It’s the perfect capper to a career that continues to defy the generally sexist expectations about female actors and what roles they can or cannot do. And yet, despite starring in blockbuster superhero movies, animated family films, and romantic comedies, she still hears the same garbage as other actors going through the very natural experience of getting older.
“You know, as you get older, the roles get smaller,” Yeoh said on the L.A. Times awards podcast The Envelope [via Variety]. “It seems like the numbers go up, and these things go narrow, and then you start getting relegated to the side more and more. So when Everything Everywhere came—it was very emotional because this means that you are the one who’s leading this whole process, who’s telling the story.”