Movie fans everywhere are celebrating Michelle Yeoh after she became the first Asian woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Wang, a laundromat owner who must connect with a number of versions of herself from parallel dimensions in order to save the multiverse itself. But the road to the Oscars wasn't easy.

"You know, as you get older, the roles get smaller... you start getting relegated to the side more and more," the 60-year-old Malaysian actress told the Los Angeles Times during the 2023 awards season. "So when Everything Everywhere came, all at once it was very emotional because this means that you are the one who's leading this whole process, who's telling the story. It's about this ordinary woman who becomes a superhero. It's about you being able to be funny, dramatic, martial arts, like, almost like a horror film. It was like five genres made into one."