KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 \u2014 Malaysian actress Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh has revealed that she specifically asked not to play a human when she signed on for the upcoming sci-fi series Blade Runner 2099.<\/p>\n
The Oscar-winning actor told The Guardian that she was adamant about the nature of her character: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be human.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeoh had received what she described as a love letter from the show\u2019s creator, Silka Luisa, asking her to join the project.<\/p>\n
The result is Olwen, a synthetic being known on the show as a replicant, who Yeoh describes as \u201cterrifying,\u201d with a cold, steely gaze.<\/p>\n
She said that Olwen does not move like a machine, adding, \u201cShe\u2019s sort of fluid. Like a dragon. Like a serpent.\u201d<\/p>\n
The series is set 50 years after the last Blade Runner film, in a world where replicants are in charge and humans occupy a permanent underclass.<\/p>\n
This premise, with its echoes of current anxieties about artificial intelligence, required Yeoh to think deeply about the nature of synthetic beings.<\/p>\n
She noted that replicants, as lab-created beings, had no childhood, resulting in no concept of private space.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re in your face and if they want something, they take it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The role also required Yeoh to project a commanding presence, making her feel as though she towered over her much taller co-star, Hunter Schafer.<\/p>\n
Blade Runner 2099 will premiere on Prime Video on November 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 8 \u2014 Malaysian actress Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh has revealed that she specifically asked not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,324777,134,97984,2819,59407,344,15230,491582],"class_list":["post-957170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blade-runner-2099","tag-entertainment","tag-hunter-schafer","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-michelle-yeoh","tag-movies","tag-prime-video","tag-silka-luisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}