Who is Michelle Yeoh?What you need to know about Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Updated: May 3, 2024 7:15am CDT
*** I play a middle-aged Chinese immigrant woman who travels across multiple worlds while trying to pay off her taxes. Actress Michelle Yeoh's talent in this film attracts attention everywhere at once. I'm paying attention. This shocked me. I have never seen a movie like this in my life. I couldn't believe I had done it. When Evelyn Wong won a Golden Globe***, a SAG Award***, and won the Oscar for Best Actress***, which had never been won by an actress of Asian descent, I was impressed during Yeoh's lead performance. I was crying and laughing hysterically the whole time. It has been a long time since Yeoh and other Asian actresses have appeared in Hollywood. So why are there so few candidates? Let's rewind and take a look at the actresses who paved the way. Actress Merle Oberon became the first Asian to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1935 film Dark Angel. But Oberon, who was born in Mumbai in 1911, hid her mixed South Asian heritage to avoid laws banning interracial relationships in the 1930s, so no one noticed her accomplishments. The movie industry adopted the Hays Code, which prohibits actors of different races from kissing on screen. Because in those days, leading women always needed leading men, and leading men were always white men. So Meryl Oberon, if she wants to have her *** career, she has to hide her own identity and the fact that she is of mixed South Asian heritage. did. Hidden Oberon rose to stardom with over 50 screen credits to her name. Around the same time, actress Anna May Wong also addressed issues of discrimination. Directly Born in Los Angeles in May 2019, *** rose to fame during the silent film era and became Hollywood's first Chinese-American film star. So when news came out that MGM would be making a movie about the story of a Chinese farmer family in China, “The Good Earth,” Wong was the first to be cast. You would have thought he would have gotten the role. It has been announced that Paul Muni, who has yellow face, will play the Chinese man. Since it would be about an interracial couple, there was no way Anna May Wong could play his wife. Even though he was supposed to be Chinese, she auditioned for it and she was really open to people about what she wanted to play, the woman at the center of this movie. , that was terrible. Her role was instead given to white actress Louise Reiner, who later won an Oscar for the role. At the time, white actors were often cast in satirical Asian roles. *** The tradition known as yellow face is now largely condemned. Why do actors like Reiner use make-up to darken their faces and use prosthetics and costumes to look Asian? The make-up man transforms Mr. Astor into Mandarin. And under Hayes' influence, Cord was relegated to her supporting roles, pigeonholed into stereotypes like Madame Butterfly and the Dragon Lady, and she starred in the silent film The Price of the Sea. And if you watch this movie, you will be shocked to find out that it is a retelling of the story of Madame Butterfly. So it's already kind of racist, the story of an Asian woman who sacrifices herself to have her child raised by her illegitimate white lover. And at the other end of the spectrum is the Dragon Lady trope, which depicts Asian women as strong, deceitful, violent, and sexually attractive. *** In a 1933 interview, Wong said he was tired of the roles he had to play. The Chinese on screen are almost always the villains of the piece, so why are they so cruel, villainous, murderous, traitorous, snakes in the grass? We are not. By 1920, *** left Hollywood for better opportunities in Europe. She played lead roles in several films in Berlin and London. She financed films, co-starring Japanese American male stars of the time, and created stories set in Chinatown and around the world. In 1951, she played her starring role as a *** detective in the prime time television series Madame Liu Song's Gallery, which was written for her. Director Wang's fight for more dignified and authentic depictions of Asian women in film continues to inspire a new generation of storytellers. For creative writing. The 2022 film Professor Mei Lee Chai presents an authentic story that uplifts Asian female characters, rather than stereotyping them, all at once. Michelle Yeoh and everything. Suddenly, she is the center of all universes, she has authority, and she must find a way to save the universe and her family. And Stephanie Xu's character is also really revolutionary. Because Stephanie Hsu becomes the biggest villain in the universe, not because she's evil, but because she's been hurt, right? Although she is rejected, she is not overly sexualized. She's a queer woman with ***a lot of agencies** and I'm also really great with costumes and everything all at once. Because the characters are allowed to be human first, rather than this kind of hyper-sexualization. Om Vixen's Chai also mentions “Munari,” a film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung based on the story of a Korean-American family growing up in Arkansas. That's not the story we get to see, and what we see is a wonderful grandmother who isn't a stereotype, who isn't weak, who isn't a victim. And the Korean actress who played her won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for her role. But that doesn't come from Hollywood, where Asian Americans have written the scripts and pushed these stories forward. We are far removed from the treatment and grime of Hollywood's golden age. But Yoh's victory won't be the last for the Asian community, because we don't want to break through that ceiling and come together again. But we hope that with Asian Americans producing and writing behind the camera and in front of it, we can tell more stories of our own community. Well, that's the only way real change happens.This award proved that we can tell our stories in our own words and embrace something as simple but as important as our own name
Who is Michelle Yeoh?What you need to know about Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Updated: May 3, 2024 7:15 AM CDT
Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian actress to win the Best Actress Oscar at the 2023 Academy Awards. Now, she has been announced as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden. She plays a middle-aged Chinese immigrant woman. Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh's talent in the A24 movie Everything Everywhere All at Once went unnoticed, as she hopped across the multiverse while trying to fix her taxes. For her leading role performance of Yeo, who played Evelyn Wang, she won an Oscar Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a SAG-AFTRA Award, among others, in 2023. So why did Yeo's Oscar win mean so much to the Asian American community? Before Yeo, actress Merle Oberon became the first actress of Asian descent to win a leading role at the Academy Awards in 1935. Although she was nominated for Best Actress, she hid the fact that she was of mixed South Asian descent to avoid laws criminalizing interracial relationships. In the 1930s, Hollywood adopted a film production code commonly referred to as the “Hays Code” that prohibited depictions of “sexual relations between white and black races.” Anna May Wong, considered the first Chinese-American movie star, directly addressed discrimination and spoke out about Hollywood's treatment of actresses of Asian descent. She won more than 60 films and also had roles in silent films, television, and stage. When she was 17, she also starred in 'The Toll of the Sea', one of her first films made in Technicolor. In this episode of Clarified, we rewind Hollywood history and spotlight iconic actresses like Anna May Wong. Watch the video above.
Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian actress to win the Best Actress Oscar at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Now, Yeo has been announced as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.
A24 In the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh's talents were brought to the spotlight as she plays a middle-aged Chinese immigrant woman who travels across the multiverse while trying to pay off her taxes. Ta.
Yeoh's lead performance as Evelyn Wang won her an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a SAG-AFTRA Award, among others, in 2023.
So why did Yeoh's Oscar win mean so much to the Asian American community?
Before Yeo, actress Merle Oberon became the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1935, but she chose a South Asian actress to avoid laws criminalizing interracial relationships. He hid the fact that he was of mixed race.
In the 1930s, Hollywood adopted a film production code commonly referred to as the “Hays Code” that prohibited depictions of “sexual relations between white and black races.”
Anna May Wong, considered the first Chinese-American movie star, directly addressed discrimination and spoke out about Hollywood's treatment of actresses of Asian descent.
Wong appeared in more than 60 films and also had roles in silent films, television, and stage. At the age of 17, she also starred in 'The Toll of the Sea', one of her first films made in Technicolor.
In this episode of Clarified, we rewind Hollywood history and spotlight iconic actresses like Anna May Wong. Watch the video above.
