The director and Michelle Yeoh superfan had a valid reason for not casting her in the action film.
In another multiverse, action star and martial arts stunt queenMichelle Yeohcould have starred in aQuentin Tarantinomovie.
No longer comatose, she sets out on a path of revenge.
Michelle Yeoh.Mike Marsland/WireImage
Yeoh “asked Quentin the same question,” she said in herTown & Countrycover interview published Wednesday.
“He’s very smart,” Yeoh said of the filmmaker.
“He said, ‘Who would believe that Uma Thurman could kick your ass?'”
Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.Allyson Riggs/A24
Tarantino’s admiration for Yeoh is well-documented.
“I thought I broke my back.
I thought I was paralyzed,” Yeoh recalled once more to T&C.
“I must say, Quentin, he’s persistent,” Yeoh said.
“So then I thought, ‘Maybe I’m not ready to give up on this.’
“I was just a huge, huge fan of hers,” Tarantino told T&C.
“There was always a twinkle in her eye.”
I laughed at it so much.
I didn’t see me anymore.
I saw this Chinese immigrant woman who was dragged into all these different things.
So I had a good laugh.
And then I had a good cry.”
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