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Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh

Malaysian actress

Jul 2, 2026

10:02
Cherish it."
10:03
Wow.
10:04
I think honestly, now looking back, uh, I, I remember when Jon first came to me and asked me to do this, and then I got the imperative order from you two gorgeous ladies here.
10:16
The one thing that happened to me when the movie c- first came out was, uh, I had a lot of fans come up to me and say, "Are you really Wicked?" [laughs]
10:33
[laughs]
10:33
But then that's the, the beauty about this character, which we see in quite a lot of people, is that we get blind, so blinded by our own ambition, we forget that other people too have their own dreams and, you know, and needs to be realized.
10:48
So as I was going into Wicked 2, and then of course the realization, Jon actually called me Madame Horrible.
10:55
Then I knew right away, okay.
36:43
Mm-hmm.
36:43
... uh, a Asian family, that triggered even...
36:46
It took it to another level of things.
36:48
And then when Everything Everywhere brought it to a place where an ordinary A- Asian fam- immigrant family, which is all the immigrant families around-... could relate to this because this is their...
37:01
when they came here for the American dream, this is what they are doing.
37:04
And so, over the years, this is s- something that I have been pushing forwards in my own way, small way, but push, keep pushing it forwards.
37:13
Because it's not just a...
39:56
This is, you know, it's an ensemble, but you are the name at the top of the poster.

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