Academy Award-winning actress Michelle Yeoh received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday as she was honored for her career and success behind multiple films, including \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once.\u201d<\/p>\n
Upon receiving the star, the Malaysia-born actress said she had never dreamed that she would have her own star etched into the ground of Hollywood Boulevard as she thanked her fans, family, \u201cchosen family\u201d and colleagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe star may carry one name, but it represents so many people who made this journey possible,\u201d Yeoh said.<\/p>\n
Yeoh, in her flowy, yellow gown, attended the star-unveiling ceremony, accompanied by Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and Jon M. Chu, who directed her in \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d and the \u201cWicked\u201d films.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat took so long?\u201d Lee jokingly said, speaking to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce about the much-delayed star for his friend.<\/p>\n
Lee, who directed Yeoh in \u201cCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon\u201d that won four Academy Wards in 2001, called her a \u201cgreat movie star\u201d and applauded the 63-year-old actress for her talent, professionalism and dedication.<\/p>\n
\u201c(After \u2018Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Michelle just kept going and going until she has the next generation great film maker, Jon Chu,\u201d the Taiwanese filmmaker said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if five, 10 years from now that some new generation filmmaker may come up here and celebrate her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noting \u201cAsian excellence\u201d at display at her unveiling ceremony, Chu praised Yeoh\u2019s grace as she has \u201cmoved through the world like royalty who never needs to announce it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou carry dignity like a superhero cape, effortless, natural,\u201d the \u201cWicked\u201d director said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chu also called Yeoh a \u201cbeacon of hope and possibility,” reminding he audience at the ceremony that she was the first Asian woman to win the best actress award at the Oscars in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The Oscar was) a career win, but even more so a generational shift, making a fact that no one can dispute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Yeoh, who began training in classical ballet at a young age, is known to do many of her own stunts following her breakthrough in Hong Kong action cinema, long before American and international audiences got to know her. She was one of the few women in the 80s and 90s to play lead roles in Hong Kong action movies.<\/p>\n
Her global breathhrought came with \u201cTomorrow Never Dies,\u201d a James Bond film, in which she played an equal partner to Bond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Academy Award-winning actress Michelle Yeoh received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday as she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23739,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-183555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-hollywood-walk-of-fame","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}