Yeo was awarded for her role as Chinese-American Evelyn Wang in the film “Everything Everything”, which won a total of seven Oscars
Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh spoke today about multiculturalism and female empowerment in the entertainment industry, telling reporters in Kuala Lumpur that “we should never allow anyone to put us in boxes”.
This was the first press conference given by the Malaysian actress in her homeland after her historic award with the Oscar for Best Actress.
“I have been very blessed to always be able to work with very interesting, very diverse and very progressive filmmakers and directors. This has allowed me to fight for what I believe in: representation, multiculturalism and above all women’s empowerment,” she said.
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“I don’t believe that just because we are women, we are the weaker sex… We should never allow anyone to put us in boxes,” she added.
Her Academy Award for Best Actress – the first Asian woman to be honored with the award – “represents so many things to so many of us,” she continued, adding that after her win she “heard the sound of joy and happiness in around the world to Los Angeles.”
Yeo was awarded for her role as Chinese-American Evelyn Wang in the film “Everything Everything”, which won a total of seven Oscars.
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She plays a jaded dry cleaners owner who struggles to balance her well-intentioned husband, her wayward father and her suspicious daughter when she is called upon to clear up her shop’s bureaucratic affairs with a hostile tax department official. .
The lack of Asian representation at the highest levels of Hollywood has been a recurring theme in her interviews leading up to the award. Yoo also met with fans after the interview at a luxury mall in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.
Asked what advice she would give to young people around the world, she replied: “Don’t be me, be you… I believe you will be better.”
The 60-year-old veteran Hollywood actress was born in the northern Malaysian city of Ipoh to Chinese-Malaysian parents.
In her childhood she was engaged in dancing and specialized in ballet, which she studied in England.
She began her film career in the 1980s, but rose to prominence in Hollywood when she became the first Chinese Bond girl in the 1997 film Tomorrow Never Dies alongside Pierce Brosnan.
Other films in which she starred are “Tiger and Dragon” (Oscar-winning 2000) and “Memories of a Geisha” (2005).
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