![]() ![]() ![]() And here may lie the key to why it took so long for Yeoh to become a star in the United States. But those who have loved her for years (including, clearly, Everything’s directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) aren’t surprised that Hollywood is finally recognizing her as a star-even as we’re rolling our googly eyes over why it took so long.Ĭrouching Tiger, in addition to featuring a number of astonishing martial arts sequences-many of them enhanced by traditional wuxia wirework, which creates the illusion that characters are floating through air-is built around two love stories: That of Jen and sexy bad-boy desert warrior Lo (Chang Chen), and the more muted current of desire connecting Shu Lien and Li Mu Bai. As far as the Academy is concerned, Yeoh is a sixtyish newcomer. The performance has earned Yeoh an Academy Award nomination, most likely not because her martial arts moves are magnificent (she has always done most of her own stunts), but because she brings such a complex swirl of anxious gravity to her character. In the Daniels’ existential action fantasy Everything Everywhere All at Once, Yeoh plays Evelyn, the stressed-out owner of a laundry facility who’s transported into a complex multiverse where she becomes an action hero. To movie lovers who are also fans of the Hong Kong films of the 1990s, commonly recognized as that industry’s golden age, Michelle Yeoh’s recent Hollywood rise isn’t particularly surprising some of us have grown long white Pai Mei-style beards waiting for it. ![]()
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