Michelle
Yeoh
Legendary performer
BY KEVIN KWAN
She achieves the impos-
sible again and again.
Simply put, that is what
Michelle Yeoh has been
doing for decades. An
aristocratic Malaysian
beauty becoming the
queen of Hong Kong’s
male- dominated action
cinema? Michelle Yeoh
did it. Subverting stereo-
types in a Bond movie
and breaking into the
global consciousness
with an Oscar-winning
kung fu epic? Michelle
Yeoh did it. Leading the
first Holly wood film
with an all-Asian cast in
25 years to become the
highest-grossing roman-
tic comedy in over a de-
cade? Yes, Michelle Yeoh
did it. We all delighted
in watching her turn
a would-be villain into
a sympathetic portrait
of maternal strength
and sacrifice in Crazy
Rich Asians. And now,
with Everything Every-
where All at Once, she
truly blows our minds.
Without vanity, with-
out fuss, Michelle Yeoh
astonishes us with her
honesty, humor, and
grace, and we realize
we will never get enough
of her achieving the
impossible.
Kwan is an author,
most recently of Sex
and Vanity
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PHOTOGRAPH BY JINGNA ZHANG
