Michelle Yeoh

GP is joined today by actress Michelle Yeoh. They talked about Yeoh's beginnings as a ballet dancer in England, which unexpectedly led to her career in acting, and how she landed her first commercial with Jackie Chan. They talked about responsibility in family and why Yeoh decided early on in her career to step away from acting to prioritize her first marriage and how she feels about that decision now. Other highlights: how the pair felt winning their respective Oscar awards at very different stages in their lives, maintaining friendships with exes, what it was like for Yeoh to work with GP’s husband on The Brothers Sun, and what they order at dim sum. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Star Trek fans are in for a treat as Paramount+ announces the development of a new Star Trek film that will kick off "Phase 2" of its modern Star Trek television franchise. This new film is set to be based on the long-gestating Section 31 spinoff series that was originally intended to be a streaming show. According to sources, the idea for the movie was conceived by Alex Kurtzman, the franchise's boss, who wanted to shift the focus to tentpole films. The new movie will be led by Michelle Yeoh, who made her Star Trek debut as Captain Philippa Georgiou in the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Yeoh's character was killed off early on in the series, but she returned to play her Mirror-Universe counterpart, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, in subsequent seasons. Plans were announced in 2019 for Yeoh to reprise her role as Mirror Georgiou and lead a Discovery spinoff series focused on Section 31, Starfleet's black-ops division. Kurtzman would return as an executive producer, with Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt as showrunners. However, due to concerns about oversaturation of Star Trek streaming shows, the plans for the Section 31 spinoff series were reworked into a tentpole film. Kurtzman and his team plan to release a new Paramount+-exclusive Star Trek film every two years as part of their vision for the franchise post-Discovery and post-Picard. This new film will be the first Star Trek feature to hit screens since 2016's Star Trek Beyond, and the first to spin directly out of a TV show since 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis. Yeoh's Section 31 streaming film will serve as the maiden voyage for the second phase of Star Trek on Paramount+. This announcement comes at a time when the Star Trek TV franchise is in a transitional period, with Star Trek: Picard ending after three seasons and Discovery ending after its fifth season. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a Discovery spinoff, is set to debut its second season on Paramount+ this summer, with a third season already in the works. Additionally, the animated shows Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy are gearing up for new seasons on Paramount+ as well. A Star Trek series focusing on Starfleet Academy was also recently given a series order. The Star Trek franchise has been a mainstay in science fiction for over 50 years, and this new development shows that it is still going strong. With a new movie based on the Section 31 spinoff and a clear vision for the future of the franchise, fans can look forward to many more years of exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, and boldly going where no one has gone before.

Michelle Yeoh's entire 40-year career— yes, even the failures— were a "long rehearsal" for the ambitious sci-fi epic. Rebecca Ford talks to the Hollywood and Hong Kong icon about how she pushed herself making Everything Everywhere All at Once, and where she wants to go next. Find Little Gold Men on Twitter: @HWD Follow our hosts: @kateyrich , @rilaws , @beccamford , @davidcanfield97 Our editor and producer is Brett Fuchs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In this episode, Latinx Lens shares Catherine's SXSW red carpet interview with the directors and select cast from "Everywhere Everything All At Once." You'll listen to interviews from: The Daniels Michelle Yeoh Ke Huy Quan Stephanie Hsu Support us on Patreon! Please Rate, Review & Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! And make sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @latinxlens Follow Catherine on Twitter and Instagram: @thingscatloves Follow Rosa on Twitter and Instagram: @rosasreviews Theme Music by David Rosen

Ira and Louis discuss their favorite films, Ira's Coachella itinerary, Spirit Halloween, and David Mamet's turn as a Fox News commentator. Plus, icon Michelle Yeoh to discuss Everything Everywhere All At Once, her roots in Hong Kong action films, and more!

Career retrospective with Michelle Yeoh. Moderated by Jenelle Riley. Michelle Yeoh is recognized as one of the greatest and most successful actresses from the East, who has shattered stereotypes on screens both big and small for more than 30 years. She can most recently be seen starring in Jon M. Chu's romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians and in CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery. In this program, she will discuss her illustrious career from her beginnings as one of Hong Kong cinema’s most impressive female action stars, to the Oscar-nominated international hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2001, to her latest role as the overbearing matriarch of a wealthy family in Crazy Rich Asians. Among other things, Yeoh will address the historical significance of Crazy Rich Asians being the first Hollywood production of a contemporary story in over 25 years to feature an all Asian cast.

Welcome Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu to discuss Everything Everywhere All at Once, emotionally challenging scenes, expectations growing up, and AAPI representation on film. More about Everything Everywhere All at Once Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes. Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr, and Jamie Lee Curtis. More about Michelle Yeoh Michelle Yeoh is recognized as one of the greatest and the most successful actresses from the East. Michelle can recently be seen as 'Emperor Philippa Georgiou' in CBS's Star Trek: Discovery , in Destin Daniel Cretton's Shang-Chi for Marvel and in Navot Papushado's action-thriller Gunpowder Milkshake . The former Bond girl is best known for her roles in John M. Chu's romantic comedy, Crazy Rich Asians , Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1 & 2 , Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha , Roger Spottiswoode's Tomorrow Never Dies and Danny Boyle's Sunshine . Other notable performances include starring in Luc Besson's critically acclaimed biographical lm The Lady and voicing a role in the Dreamworks animated hit, Kung Fu Panda 2 . More about Ke Huy Quan Born in Saigon to Chinese immigrants, Ke is the seventh of nine children. He has starred in classics like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. He has worked as an action choreographer. Ke's love for acting did not wane; however, jobs for Asian Actors in Hollywood remained few and far between. This all changed in 2018 when Crazy Rich Asians , featuring an all-Asian cast took the box of ce by storm, opening new doors for Asian actors. Ke, recognizing Hollywood's acknowledgement of the importance of Asian representation took this as his cue to return to his roots. He decided to step back in front of the camera for Everything Everywhere All at Once. More about Stephanie Hsu Stephanie recently wrapped on season four of Amazon's hit show, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” as Mei, the provocative love-interest to Joel Maisel. The cast won a SAG Award in 2020 for best ensemble in a comedy series. Her past television and lm credits include a recurring role on “The Path,” “Awkwa na is Nora from Queens,” “Femme,” “Set It Up,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Girl Code." Everything Everywhere All at Once comes out wide April 8, 2022 Find us at www.werewatchingwhat.com THEDHK can be found at instagram.com/thedhk , twitter.com/thedhk , and facebook.com/thedhkmovies

Das war 2000 in Cannes der große Überraschungs-Hit des Festivals. «Sense and Sensibility with martial arts» hatte Ang Lee versprochen und dies auch eingehalten. In Cannes fanden Gruppengespräche mit Ang Lee und den Darstellerinnen Michelle Yeoh und Zhang Ziyi statt; in Zürich gab es beim Kinostart dann noch Gelegenheit zu einem Einzelgespräch mit Ang Lee. Zusammen genommen vermitteln diese Gespräche nicht nur viel Hintergrund zu diesem großartigen Film; Ang Lee stellt «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» auch in Beziehung zu seinem übrigen Werk, Michelle Yeoh zieht Vergleiche zu anderen wuxia-Filmen und zu James Bond, während Zhang Ziyi erklärt, wie sich die Regisseure Ang Lee und Zhang Yimou – dessen Filme «The Road Home» (1999) und «House of Flying Daggers» (2004) mit Zhang Ziyi wir noch in diesem Jahr zu zeigen hoffen – unterscheiden. This was the big surprise hit of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Ang Lee had promised "Sense and Sensibility with martial arts" and came through with flying colours (and fighters). In Cannes, there were round tables with Ang Lee and the actresses Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi; in Zurich, I was subsequently granted a one-to-one conversation with Ang Lee before the film's theatrical release. Taken together, these conversations not only provide a lot of background to this great film; in addition, Ang Lee relates «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» to his previous work, Michelle Yeoh draws comparisons to other wuxia films and to James Bond, while Zhang Ziyi explains the differences between the directors Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou, whose films «The Road Home» (1999) and «House of Flying Daggers» (2004) starring Zhang Ziyi we hope to screen later this year.