Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu Interview: Everything Everywhere All at Once
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.
You can find our interview with directing duo DANIELS here.
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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