Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh, the primary Malaysian to win the awards ceremony, made history when she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
The Ipoh-born actress took home the award for her outstanding performance as a disgruntled laundromat owner battling tax issues within the highly acclaimed film ‘Everything, Everywhere, Everything at Once’.
“I’ll just stand here and take it all in. Forty years… I won’t let it go,” Yeoh said.
“It’s been an incredible journey and an incredible struggle to be here today, but I feel it was price it,” she said while accepting the award in Los Angeles.
Beating the Competition: Yeoh delivers a winning performance as a frustrated laundromat owner battling tax problems in “Everything, All at Once.”
Yeoh, who turned 60 last 12 months, also discussed aging in Hollywood and the way actresses of a certain age have fewer and fewer opportunities.
“I feel all of you girls understand this – as the times, years and numbers get larger, it looks like the opportunities also begin to get smaller.
“That was probably the moment I believed, ‘Come on, girl, you probably did rather well. You worked with the most effective people – Steven Spielberg, Danny Boyle – so it’s good, all the pieces’s fantastic.
“Then the best gift came. Everything everywhere and at once,” said the Time 2022 Icon of the Year.
Yeoh won the acting award, beating out Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande), Margot Robbie (Babylon), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Menu) and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris).
Her Crazy Rich Asians co-star Awkwafina won the award for her role in The Farewell in 2020, making her the second Asian actress to take home the award on this category.
In addition to Yeoh, the solid of “Everywhere All At Once” had other winners. Her co-star Ke Huy Quan won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
Yeoh made history by becoming the primary Asian woman to win the Best Actress award on the National Board of Review Awards in New York.
In her victory speech, Yeoh discussed the challenges she faced early on in navigating her profession in Hollywood.
“My real name is Yeoh Choo Kheng. I was told I had to take a Western surname. And so Yeoh Choo Kheng became Michelle Yeoh. We were told this would make it easier to sell our films and tell our stories to the rest of the world.”
“One day Hollywood called, an absolute dream come true. We all desired to go to Hollywood – until I got there.
“Suddenly I became a minority. How did this occur? There’s more of me than you,” said Yeoh, who moved her profession from Hong Kong to Hollywood in 1997 after starring within the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. “I’m incredibly proud to be the primary Asian actress in 45 years to receive this honor.
She continued, “I hope that Hollywood and the film community see what a groundbreaking film that is and appreciate all of the things I even have stood for and tried to attain in my forty-year profession.”
Yeoh is taken into account a transparent front-runner for an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. The Oscar nominations shall be announced on January 24.
Source: TheStar.com, MalayMail.com, TheVibes.com
