Michelle Yeoh: Never Give Up | 262
Even the Rich
Wondery
4.3 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Yeoh was a gravity-defying, glass ceiling-smashing Hong Kong action film star for years, until she decides to tackle Hollywood. But her road to international stardom is paved with heartbreak and struggles. She endures years fighting against typecasting and borderline racism in Tinseltown, until she finally makes her mark - and history - with an inspirational Oscar win at the age of 60! Never before has there been a star we’ve been so happy to see win “everything...everywhere...all at once.”
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of Even the Rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:13.4 | So, Brooke, tell me about a time where you really had to struggle to break into a boys club. |
| 0:19.9 | Oh, man. |
| 0:20.9 | I guess, I mean, comedy is like the biggest boys club I'm a part of, I think. |
| 0:25.2 | Podcasting. |
| 0:26.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.5 | But I feel like everything we do. |
| 0:31.0 | This is a blessing, though. |
| 0:32.1 | I don't feel like I've had to struggle to break in to either of those things. |
| 0:35.4 | So. |
| 0:36.0 | I think for me it was breaking into the rap genre. |
| 0:38.9 | Oh, yeah. Like it was definitely a boys club, but. Yeah. I held my own, obviously, with freestyling. |
| 0:44.6 | Mm-hmm. Yeah, why don't you actually give us one right now? Everyone knows I've retired, just like |
| 0:48.8 | other famous rap people before me. But today's subject has also definitely broken into a boys club. |
| 0:57.4 | She launched her career in her 20s by doing intricate fight scenes and dangerous stunts all by herself. |
| 1:05.0 | Proving that she could hang with the best male martial artists in the Hong Kong film industry. |
| 1:10.0 | And now that she's in her 60s, her bravery and dedication is still what sets her apart. |
| 1:14.3 | So today, we're talking all about Michelle Yeo. |
| 1:19.1 | It's 1984, and 22-year-old Yo-chu King is on her first ever movie set. |
| 1:25.1 | It's a Hong Kong action film directed by Sam O'Hung, who's a martial |
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