Time (correctly) named Yeoh its “Icon of the Year,” and in a chat with the publication she shared that she hopes this is only the beginning. “I do look at all my peers—Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Helen Mirren—and go, ‘Oh god, I envy all the different opportunities you get to showcase your talent again and again,’” Yeoh said. Of playing Evelyn in Everything Everywhere All at Once, she said, “When you get an opportunity like this, you have to pour your heart and soul into it, because you don’t know when the next chance is. I think that is my biggest fear: Please don’t let this be the one and only.”
Time (correctly) named Yeoh its “Icon of the Year,” and in a chat with the publication she shared that she hopes this is only the beginning. “I do look at all my peers—Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Helen Mirren—and go, ‘Oh god, I envy all the different opportunities you get to showcase your talent again and again,’” Yeoh said. Of playing Evelyn in Everything Everywhere All at Once, she said, “When you get an opportunity like this, you have to pour your heart and soul into it, because you don’t know when the next chance is. I think that is my biggest fear: Please don’t let this be the one and only.”