China News Service, Beijing, March 13th (Reporter Wang Shiyao) On March 12th local time, the 95th Academy Awards were held in the United States.
The award ceremony was full of stars, and the high-profile Best Actress was won by the 60-year-old Michelle Yeoh. She also became the first Chinese actor to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
On the same day, Michelle Yeoh appeared on the Oscars red carpet in a white fringed dress, becoming the focus of media attention as a strong contender for the queen.
After the awards ceremony began, the movie "The Universe in a Moment" starring Michelle Yeoh won the Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Director, Best Film and many other important awards in one fell swoop. jackpot.
The competition for Best Actress was extremely fierce. In the end, Michelle Yeoh defeated Cate Blanchett, known as the "Big Devil", making history and becoming the first Chinese actor to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
When the award presenter pronounced the name of "Michelle Yeoh", Michelle Yeoh excitedly stood up and embraced the surrounding actors.
When she gave her acceptance speech, she was so nervous that she took a few seconds to take a deep breath. This was the moment when her dream came true.
When she turned to step off the stage, she excitedly hugged the two award presenters and exclaimed "amazing" in a low voice!
Indeed, it was an amazing moment, and one that made history.
Data map: In 2001, Michelle Yeoh recalled the past in front of the photos she took at the age of fourteen.
Photo by Deng Qingle
From dancing to martial arts
Wu out of my life
Michelle Yeoh was born in a Chinese family in Malaysia in 1962, and grew up in a wealthy family.
She has been learning ballet since she was 4 years old, and her dream was to become a ballet dancer.
At the age of 15, she went to England with her parents, and was admitted to the famous Royal Academy of Dance in London, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in drama and dance.
At the age of 17, she had to give up becoming a professional ballet dancer because of a serious spinal injury caused by hard dancing.
In 1983, Michelle Yeoh returned from her studies and participated in the beauty pageant under her mother's persuasion. She was finally elected as Miss Malaysia and represented Malaysia in the Miss World competition.
This experience allowed her to be favored by the Hong Kong Debao Film Company founded by Sammo Hung, and she signed a contract as an artist under it, and began to develop her career in Hong Kong, China.
Data map: The 7th Asian Film Awards held an awards ceremony in 2013, and Michelle Yeoh won the Outstanding Asian Filmmaker Award.
In the beginning, the company positioned Michelle Yeoh no differently from other actresses, that is, to play the roles of "Jade Girl" and "Vase".
In 1984, the first film she participated in was "Owl and Dumbo", directed and acted by Sammo Hung.
Other people in the movie have wonderful fighting scenes, and she plays the "vase" who needs help and is protected.
Michelle Yeoh, who had a "heroine's dream" since she was a child, often went to Sammo Hung's "Hong's Class" to practice martial arts during filming. She told Sammo Hung that filming martial arts scenes is not much different from dancing, and she also wanted to try making action movies. Specially ask a coach to teach yourself martial arts.
Michelle Yeoh, who refuses to admit defeat, knows exactly what type of role she is suitable for, so she completed the transformation in the second film "Royal Senior Sister" and became a real "hit girl".
This time she no longer needs other people's protection, and Michelle Yeoh does not need a stand-in to perform dangerous actions such as wearing glass in the film.
In the end, this film made Michelle Yeoh an instant hit and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1992, Michelle Yeoh took a four-year hiatus from acting and her first movie after her divorce was "Police Story 3" with Jackie Chan.
Michelle Yeoh's hard work made Jackie Chan "roll" up. Jackie Chan once said jokingly: "If you do more, then what will I live on?" The wonderful action scenes of the two made the film widely praised after it was released. She became the most famous and highest-paid actress in Asia at that time.
In 1997, Michelle Yeoh got a chance to enter Hollywood and became the first Asian "Bond Girl" in the history of the movie "007: Tomorrow Empire".
It is worth mentioning that the "Bond girl" she played got rid of the vase positioning and is an independent woman who can fight side by side with Bond.
Three years later, the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, directed by Ang Lee and starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi, was a huge success and won four awards including Best Foreign Language Film at the 73rd Academy Awards.
The heroine Michelle Yeoh has therefore become the "Goddess of Kung Fu" in the minds of Western audiences.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" stills
Break the ceiling of the industry
60 years old ushered in the heyday
In 2022, the movie "The Universal Universe" will be released, and Michelle Yeoh will celebrate her 60th birthday this year.
The plight of middle-aged actresses has always been a hot topic in the entertainment industry, and Hollywood is no exception, not to mention that Michelle Yeoh is still a minority actor.
In recent years, most of Michelle Yeoh's roles have been supporting roles. In "Crazy Rich Asians", she played the hero's mother. In "Guardians of the Galaxy 2", she is one of the few predators.
Even for this "The Universe", the original film directors Kwan Ka-yung and Daniel Schneider wanted to invite Jackie Chan to play the leading role, but Jackie Chan had no schedule at that time.
Later, they began to change their thinking and recreate the script from the perspective of the heroine, allowing a frustrated middle-aged woman to experience a bizarre life.
Stills of "The Instant Universe"
In this way, Michelle Yeoh, who was also in the plight of a middle-aged woman, met Evelyn Wang, the proprietress of the laundry shop.
Later, Michelle Yeoh confided in the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, "Last year I was 60 years old. The older a woman is, the less chance she has. I said to myself, 'Girl, run'. Good people, received the best gift——"The Universe in a Moment."
The heroine in the movie, Evelyn Wang, is middle-aged and runs a laundry with her husband. Her elderly and frail father has just come to the United States from China to receive care. The cowardly husband fantasizes about using "divorce" to rekindle love , the rebellious daughter competes for her mother's attention with complaints of discontent.
And she has no time to take care of these, because countless tax returns are waiting for her to solve one by one.
One day, Evelyn and her husband took their father to the tax bureau to file tax returns. When they were taking the elevator, the obedient husband suddenly had a shock and transformed into a man like a "secret agent" and told Evelyn the secret about the "multiverse" .
According to the man, there are countless branch universes in the entire universe, and he came from another universe in order to find a "savior" who can fight against evil forces, and the person he was looking for was Evelyn.
Do you believe that an ordinary middle-aged woman can save the universe?
Believe it or not, nothing is impossible!
Evelyn relies on connecting various versions of "self" to obtain their skills, and finally succeeds in saving her family and alleviating the crisis of the universe.
Michelle Yeoh has emphasized more than once that "I have been waiting for this role for 40 years".
Indeed, this role seems to be tailor-made for her. Asian, middle-aged women, and kung fu skills all point to Michelle Yeoh.
When the film was released, she said in an interview with foreign media: "This is a script I have been looking forward to for a long time. I finally have the opportunity to show my abilities to my fans, family and audience. I have waited for this moment for too long. I To be able to prove to them that I can be funny, I can be sincere, I can be sad, and finally someone understands that I can do it all."
On January 10, 2023 local time, in California, USA, Michelle Yeoh appeared holding the 80th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards.
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Michelle Yeoh, who was once limited by the image of a "beating girl", announced with a "Momentary Universe" that she can also be delicate, emotional, and even funny.
After waiting for 40 years, Michelle Yeoh finally waited for Evelyn Wang and started her heyday.
Even though she hasn't won many awards for so many years, now she seems to be compensated for winning it all over again.
Michelle Yeoh won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy category, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the National Board of Review Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture Universe for her outstanding performance and other awards.
Michelle Yeoh was also selected as Time Magazine's 2022 Idol of the Year, the first Asian actress in history to receive this honor.
Just today, Michelle Yeoh became the first Chinese actor to win the Oscar for Best Actress, breaking the ceiling of the industry and making history again.
There is a line in the movie "The Universal Universe": "You worry all the time, whether you have missed the opportunity to control your life and achieve yourself." But please don't worry, don't regret your past choices, just start from Don't give up easily now, seize the opportunity, the life you want will definitely be waiting for you in the future.
Michelle Yeoh used her story to tell us, so what if you are 60 years old, there are so many wonderful things waiting for you in life!
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