Michelle Yeoh Said People Told Her She Should Retire Before Starring in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Michelle Yeoh is known for her films Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Crazy Rich Asians, but this past year, she starred in the massive hit Everything Everywhere All At Once, and her performance has won her the Golden Globe for best actress, and an Oscar nomination as well. We will have to wait a few weeks to see if she takes home that award as well. But as it turns out, this role couldn’t have come at a better time.

In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times' The Envelope podcast (via GamesRadar), Yeoh said:

"As you get older, the roles get smaller. 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."

In the movie, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (AKA the Daniels), Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, a woman who is drawn from her ordinary life as a laundromat owner into an adventure through the multiverse, when she discovers that she is the only one who can save every world in existence from an ominous threat.

She continued:

"You know, as you get older, people start saying, 'Oh yeah, you should retire. You should do this. You should…' No, guys. Do not tell me what to do. I should be in control of what I am capable of, right?"

I’m so glad she didn’t listen! Michelle Yeoh is an incredible actress, and she gave a wonderful performance in this movie. I hope she gets the Oscar for it. Find out when the awards air on March 12th.