Michelle Yeoh says her role in 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' gave her the 'opportunity' to show what she's capable of: 'To be funny. To be real. To be sad.'

• Michelle Yeoh opened up about her role in the mind-bending film "Everything Everywhere All At Once."

• In an interview with GQ, Yeoh said the film gave her the "opportunity" to show what she's capable of.

• "To be funny. To be real. To be sad," she said. "Finally, somebody understood that I can do all these things."

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" star Michelle Yeoh said her role in the highly acclaimed film gave her the "opportunity" to show people what she's "capable of."

The Malaysian actress, whose decades-long acting career consisted of roles in "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000), and "Crazy Rich Asians" (2018), discussed the trippy action movie in an interview with GQ earlier this month.

Yeoh stars as Evelyn Wang, an exhausted Chinese immigrant who owns a struggling laundromat with her husband, whose unassuming trip to her business' IRS audit turns into a bizarre, whirlwind adventure spanning the multiverse.

"When I read the script, I thought, 'This is something,'" Yeoh said in the GQ interview, before pausing as she began to tear up. "This is something I've been waiting for for a long time that's going to give me the opportunity to show my fans, my family, my audience what I'm capable of."

"To be funny. To be real. To be sad," she continued. "Finally, somebody understood that I can do all these things."

The movie, written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known collectively as the "Daniels," has a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Vanity Fair has pointed to the film as a potential Oscar nominee. Variety also predicted Yeoh could earn her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the mind-bending action-adventure.

Yeoh said she tried not to "inject" her own personality into the character but did feel she connected with Evelyn on a personal level as her character grappled with the idea of failure and success.

"What I saw in Evelyn was a very hard-working immigrant who's trying so hard to be keeping her family together, to be a success in her father's eyes, to prove that she's a good daughter, and I see Evelyn in so many people around me," she said. "It was like taking a look at your own life and going like, 'Am I a failure?' Am I this? Am I that? Could I have done better?'"

"Maybe that is one thing I do put in, taking from my experiences, because it is very personal," Yeoh added. "Not every decision that you make is going to be the perfect one, and that's when mistakes hopefully make you wiser and smarter, and to [not] do it again."

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