: Michelle Yeohs journey is anything but Everything Everywhere All At Once #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment <br>The actress, who plays laundromat owner Evelyn Quan Wang in the film, has been a hot favourite

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Michelle Yeohs journey is anything but Everything Everywhere All At Once #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment
<br>The actress, who plays laundromat owner Evelyn Quan Wang in the film, has been a hot favourite of cinema lovers for the past few years, but her journey on the big screen has been far from everything, everywhere all at once. The actress has worked tirelessly for close to 40 years now.
Yeohs journey is a classical model graduating to becoming an actor story, except for one thing, she was not just a pretty face as a model, but also an actress with expertise in martial arts.
She won the Miss Malaysia World contest at the age of 21 in 1983 and went on to represent Malaysia at the Miss World 1983 pageant in London where she finished 18th among 72 contestants.
After this, the actress started working in television commercials after getting her break in a television ad alongside the legend, Jackie Chan. Yeoh, who has stated that she had limited proficiency in Cantonese, was informed during her initial Cantonese phone conversation with the production company that she will be working alongside Sing Lung.
It was only after she entered the studio that she realised that she will share the frame with Jackie Chan in the commercial, and that Sing Lung was the Cantonese name of Jackie Chan.
A year after that in 1984, Yeoh landed her first job in films, that too in a film which was made far away from her home, the Hong Kong action comedy The Owl vs Bombo directed by Sammo Hung, who is known for reinventing the genre of martial arts films and is also credited for starting the vampire-like Jiangshi genre, which is the far-eastern counterpart of the vampires and zombies of the West.
Yeoh, who was credited in the film as Michelle Khan as it was more marketable to the international audience, did her own stunts in The Owl vs Bombo and the films that followed.
The actress steadily gained recognition in Hong Kong films. She rose through the ranks and also properly learnt Cantonese as an occupational demand of working in Hong Kong cinema.
By the early 1990s, Yeoh was a star of Hong Kong cinema. Her works have even inspired the cinema great Quentin Tarantino, who is a self-admitted Michelle Yeoh superfan.
Then came 1996 when she bagged a role in Tomorrow Never Dies, the 18th film in the James Bond series. The film was the first one in the series to be made after the death of Albert R. Broccoli, who was involved with the series production since its inception.
Broccoli was the producer who not just laid the seeds for one of the most iconic film series in the history cinema, but also transformed the franchise from its low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas.
Naturally, the stakes were high but the film paid off, it grossed over 3 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1997 and even earned a Golden Globe nomination.

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