Michelle Yeoh’s personal guide to Everything Everywhere All At Once’s vast multiverse

polygon.com:

The epic, action-packed science-fiction adventure Everything Everywhere All At Once transcends time and space and leaps across multiple universes. With so much happening — one could say, so much happening everywhere, all at once — it’s prime for a breakdown of what’s going on. And who better to take us on a tour of the multiverse than the center of it herself, longtime martial-artist superstar Michelle Yeoh?

Yeoh stars as Evelyn, an ordinary woman who’s just trying to get through an IRS audit of the family laundromat. Her marriage with Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) is struggling, and her relationships with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) and her father (James Hong) are both strained. During an IRS appointment, Evelyn is suddenly sucked into a universe-hopping escapade.

Across different realities and radically different possible lives, Yeoh carries Evelyn through her own emotional journey. Yeoh sat down with Polygon to dive into some of her favorites among these alternate timelines and lifetimes, and to share some insight on what it was like wriggling hot-dog fingers in Jamie Lee Curtis’ face.

[Ed. note: Major spoilers ahead for Everything Everywhere All At Once.]

One of the first alternate timelines in the movie presents the life Evelyn would’ve lived if she hadn’t run off to America with Waymond when they were both young. After rejecting Waymond (and being mugged by one of the directors in a cameo appearance), alternate-Evelyn trains in martial arts and becomes a successful action star, rising to international fame in the movie industry. The parallels between Evelyn in this particular world and the real-life Michelle Yeoh are clear, but even though writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert intended it as a cheeky