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Michelle Yeoh

Newsweek US

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January 26, 2024

IF YOU THOUGHT MICHELLE YEOH WAS GOING TO SLOW DOWN AFTER winning last year's Best Actress Academy Award for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you'd be mistaken.

- H. Alan Scott

Michelle Yeoh

And it's all part of her plan to "seek roles that I feel I have not explored or experienced before." Her latest project is Netflix's The Brothers Sun. She plays Eileen "Mama" Sun, living a quiet life in Southern California with her teenage son when suddenly her eldest son arrives from Taiwan, saying her Triad crime boss-husband has been assassinated and they're after her family now. But The Brothers Sun is way more than a crime drama; it's action-packed and, at times, very funny. "We know there's going to be killings and gore and all that, but the core of any story is the family." And it's while protecting her family that Eileen resumes her criminal ways, which come back to her easil

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