Oscars 2023: Michelle Yeoh’s Full Backstage Interview

Michelle Yeoh reacts to her historic Best Actress win for her role in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' backstage at the Oscars. The 95th Annual Academy Awards aired Sunday, March 12, on ABC.

[@aresmorgan9566]

She is one of the most phenomenal actors that I've ever seen in my existence. She absolutely deserved best supporting actress when she portrayed her character in Memoirs of a Geisha, and also Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She is literally one of the most influential inspirational actors of my Generation. I absolutely adore this celestial goddess.

[@johnmartindizon667]

Very well-deserved 🩷 I love when she said "Hello" at the beginning then semi-raised her Oscar as if it's a glass of wine for celebration..so adorable ❤️

[@mixeduniverse111]

I've seen so many of her movies and she's really memorable. 😘

[@IsSkyyyyyyyy9264]

Proud to be malaysian 😭🇲🇾

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

From Kung fu star to oscaŕ winner she is one of the hard working actors in the world Michelle yeoh is so well deserved congratulations!! 👏🏽👏🏽🎉

[@tracys169]

Very well-deserved. She' got a tough competition, but the movie EEAAO was just sooooo phenomenal. A movie that got me LMAO and crying at the same time.

[@jetnight88]

That sounds like you have bipolar disorder if you’re laughing and crying

[@CharlieCharlie88]

@@jetnight88 that sounds like you have ITS, Internet Trolling Syndrome

[@jetnight88]

@@CharlieCharlie88 That sounds like you have Stockholm syndrome yeah you should get that looked at

[@JJTheRipper]

​@@CharlieCharlie88 C'mon, don't be a moron. Movie is NOT THAT GREAT. This is another Shakespeare In Love all over again. Movie is ok, fresh, original... Not a masterpiece at all. Oscars are just more show.

[@lookupbelieve-romans120]

Very well deserved for her. I loved her in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. She’s the second woman of color to win this award in 2023! Wow!!!!!!!! I’m glad for her and I hope she continues on in her excellence ❤🥰😍😘

[@lisawong8729]

Congratulations to Michelle Yeoh!! 🎊🎊🎉🎉🥂🥂🍻🍻🍾️🍾️👍👍

[@zumbadiva99]

wow I didn't know who she was and now I love her! I loved her speech when she received her Oscar, she is very elegant and well spoken and a great actress....she deserved her trophy! good for her!!!

[@juyehh]

when Michelle asks if she should make a statement in Cantonese or Mandarin at 6:01 // many non-speakers don't know or realize that she alternates between speaking both dialects throughout EEAAO, not to mention her accent is actually Malaysian [which differs quite much from an American Chinese speaking, or even a Hong Kong-born/ Taiwan-born Chinese] added on by the fact that Michelle grew up not learning how to speak/write Chinese (which is common in Malaysia) and went on to develop it while she grew her career in Hong Kong: she truly has come such a long way in her career as an actress and influential figure not only to us Asians as a whole, but especially to the modern-day Chinese woman like myself. much power to Michelle!

[@Nazaba09]

So she speaks Malay?

[@juyehh]

@@Nazaba09 she 100% speaks Malay

[@Nazaba09]

@@juyehh thank you.

[@eamonndeane587]

An Acting Goddess for Our Times.

[@ryanahmadzod5991]

Congratulations, my idol. As an Asian and huge fan I have been waiting for this moment for long and I can't explain how happy I am now 🥺. No one deserved it more than you, the proud of ASIA 🎉🎉🎉

[@alexk.official7514]

Cate deserved it better than anyone else!!!

[@ryanahmadzod5991]

@@alexk.official7514 If she deserved she would get it, but she didn't. LoL 😂 So better be quiet

[@alexk.official7514]

@@ryanahmadzod5991 Cate deserves it and I think Michelle MUST return the Oscar and give to Cate! That's what the worthy people do!

[@ryanahmadzod5991]

@@alexk.official7514 Dream on ! Cate would be embarrassed of you so much. They are good friends. They were both awesome, but Michelle absolutely deserved it. Cate said herself what Michelle Yeoh did no one has ever done. Go, look it up !

[@innerpeace88627]

What a class act. Humility, generosity and immense talent. So deserving of this recognition!

[@alexk.official7514]

Млъкни бе! Млъкни!

[@asheelama1]

I cried with joy

[@keikei3301]

I wish they would have given her more time for her Oscar’s speech! I hated that she got cut off and didn’t get to finish bc I would have loved for her to say what she said here in her answer to the first question but in her actual Oscar’s speech! They shouldn’t have cut off her speech at the Oscars, this was a historic win! Let her speak, let her have her winning moment! 40 years she waited. She deserves it! A whole continent is celebrating her win, not just one country!

[@spacecadet2172]

They didn’t cut her off

[@Bryza25a]

I love her. She has been representing asians in hollywood for over 20 years now. And she’s a great actress so it’s well deserved.

[@bonnieho9112]

I love her speech always!

[@maggiechan33]

Michelle was divinely attired in a pristine gown, like a bride "marrying" her Oscar.

[@salmaal-shaoily5809]

Michelle she's gorgeous ❤💐

[@MaruxaLynd]

Amazing answers 💕💕💕

[@nedgrg6800]

Congratulations

[@keepgoing6703]

Congratulations to you 🎉

[@laurarodriguez965]

Ultramerecido. Me siento muy feliz por Michelle.

[@pohen5]

最佳女主角~楊紫瓊 （Michelle Yeoh）Congratulations to Michelle Yeoh!! 🎊🎊🎉🎉🥂🥂🍻🍻🍾🍾👍👍👍

[@aeroTnz]

So glad Hollywood us amazing icons like this ❤🎉

[@choonyew8878]

Well Said on what Mothers do. God Bless You

[@mixeduniverse111]

Wow 😳

[@betsy7730]

Love you ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘

[@aeroTnz]

All those little boys and girls who like me was amazing 😢❤❤❤

[@wonder8150cyw]

❤❤❤

[@freedom584]

I suddenly missed my mom in heaven. God bless all mothers.

[@aeroTnz]

She truly is amazing I was thinking at first she would be too woke but she truly spoke from her heart and for her people and for all minorities not just for medias and for making woke headlines

[@suckerpunch5915]

Malaysia Pride.. Hong Kong Talents

[@judihart9658]

GoGirl!💖🙂👏👍😎

[@michaelhurley3171]

They all should have ate an everything bagel to celebrate!

[@noroyalbloodline3983]

Don’t let anyone tell you are past your prime. If only the world thought like this

[@simonboccanegra3811]

The Buzzfeed question about whether being a woman of color in an unwelcoming "space" has ever made her consider stepping away from acting (as if her whole acting career has been dependent on the whims of Hollywood) was idiotic, as is much of Buzzfeed's actual content. Yeoh is great, though.

[@brianlaane894]

I agree

[@limerence5728]

I like all her Kung fu movies❤

[@user-uq8zv2rm8k]

This is ironic. A few years back, with Trump fanning hatred, any chinese walking on the street would be afraid to be beaten up out of nowhere. Today Michelle Yeoh has won an oscar best actress award.

[@asiankitchen5294]

Michelle Yeoh won every major film award except for the BAFTA. You can draw your own conclusion why that is the case.

[@klikbumi7980]

👏❤️🧚‍♀️💯☝️🙌

[@JasonQiuMusic]

Kung Fu'd it out!

[@tsoimegan]

SHE MEANT HER MANDARIN ISNT SO GOOD NOT CANTONESE

[@kingarthur7250]

What movie did she get it fir??

[@yourgoblinsecretary3842]

Everything Everywhere All At Once. The best picture winner.

[@alexk.official7514]

Shit. Cate Blanchett won for Best Actress!

[@allequal3789]

​@@alexk.official7514 in ur own universe.

[@alexk.official7514]

@@allequal3789 Stupid answer.... the vote was faked!

[@ilvnhiulam]

@@alexk.official7514but the one who won is Michelle …

[@honeymoon7090]

These questions are so dissapointing and humiliating. İmagine that you win an Oscar for being best actress, but people ask you questions referring to your race, not the questions about your performance or acting. this is kind of racism.

[@MrLaureus]

Americans asking racist questions!?... for real???

[@mylign]

Geez.. a Chinese reporter asking Yeoh to speak to the Asian community in Mandarin. Some groups conform 100% to stereotype, and that's why stereotypes persist.

[@useridcn]

Poor Chinese people think all Asians speak Chinese. And she thinks Mandarin Chinese is the only kind of Chinese language.

[@U_know_better]

Michelle was English educated in Main Convent school in Ipoh, Malaysia until she’s 15 and went to London for further study. She doesn’t read Chinese actually.

[@zhduan1498]

proud of chinese and prc(be China's market so big)

[@Syoma]

she is malaysian

[@dangananjavier524]

Yikes, stick to one diversity question then move on to a better and more creative questions. Proud of the question of 🇵🇭 reporter

[@fernwehtwl]

Why is that mainland Chinese asking her to speak in mandarin ?? What about the hk audience that wants to hear her speak in their own dialect too ?? I don’t think it’s fair she is biasing and asking her to speak only mandarin to benefit the China audience . Malaysians also speak Cantonese too

[@jgil1966]

CATE ROBBED this is as if Daniel Day Lewis had lost for There Will Be Bllood, it's that bad

[@shfqqxx4479]

Cry abt it little jon

[@alicemendez9660]

Love her , but cate Blanchett deserved it so much more

[@RVandergeld]

They both deserve to win but Michelle Yeoh gave the best performance of the year IMO compare to other nominees.

[@diodede1]

Cate Blanchett already has 2. She's fine.

[@maisom7385]

The best performance won. I’m sorry.

[@maisom7385]

Also Cate has 2. She’s fine.

[@alexk.official7514]

​@@diodede1 AND??? WE DON'T COUNT OSCARS!!! WE TALK ABOUT TALENT AND CLASS!!! CATE IS THE REAL WINNER, THE REAL QUEEN!!!! DOWN MICHELLE YEOH!!! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!!!!

[@andym7713]

And Joe Biden would say "congratulations to her for winning the Nobel Prize"

[@dt8762]

She looks past her prime.

[@user-zr2eo5tm9y]

No.

[@seankoontz4235]

Don Lemon, is that you?

[@mandingo9999998]

Understand discrimination. But one thing, the Asian population in America has always been relatively tiny, like 4%. America has been a vastly white, European majority for 200+ years. And the Oscars have historically been about American films. I don't get the surprise or sense of injustice. It's like asking why S. Korea doesn't give more awards to American films. It's not discrimination, its demographics.

[@jongdae8952]

As of 2020, it’s actually 7.2% of the population which is around 24 million people. I think you’re missing the point slightly, in the 95 years the oscars have run there have only been two non-white women to win best actress and they happened 20 years apart. The oscars is not just an American award show, sure Hollywood is the main focus but it literally touts itself as being the most prestigious /global/ movie awards. Also there is a looooong history of yellow face and racist stereotyping in American films. if mickey rooney can go full WW2 caricature in a deeply beloved film they clearly seem comfortable enough to make fun of asians, just not actually cast them in anything

[@jetnight88]

Only got it because she’s Asian

[@dempoy]

Well that was a very Racist opinion.

[@RVandergeld]

Stay in your lane white boi!!

[@aaroncarter99hk]

That is the most racist comment I’ve ever seen

[@erichsen07]

if it so then why not so many asian won an oscar?

[@subinsubout8952]

And if she doesn't because she is asian also