Michelle Yeoh in ‘Section 31’] I don’t let people tell me what I can and can’t do,” says Michelle Yeoh, in a voice like polished steel.
And it was true two years ago, when Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win a Best Actress Oscar, having fronted a thoroughly unconventional awards-sweeper – Everything Everywhere All at Once, in which she played a laundromat owner with the ability to travel across the multiverse.
The Oscar-winning star of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, ‘Wicked’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ speaks to Louis Chilton about her new Star Trek spin-off ‘Section 31’ and the shocking risks of her early days as a Hong Kong action legend.
It was true when Yeoh broke into Hollywood, redefining the term “Bond girl” as the all-action Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
You need the right people to come together; you need a visionary.” The film’s director, Jon M Chu, was exactly that visionary, Yeoh says.
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