Merle Oberon: the first Asian Best Actress Oscar nominee who hid her heritage from Hollywood
Other platforms, including NextShark, made the distinction that the actor was actually the โfirst person who identifies as Asian" to be nominated for the award. As it turns out, there was one biracial actress of South Asian origin who was the first to be nominated for the category: Hollywood star Merle Oberon. Oberon, who was a renowned celebrity in the 1930s, was discovered to have lied about her real birthplace and biracial identity after her death.
news.yahoo.comHollywood Reporter celebrates Oscar nominee Michelle Yeoh as first person in category to 'identify as Asian'
The Hollywood Reporter described actress Michelle Yeoh as the first woman who โidentifies as Asianโ to be nominated for Best Actress after the nominations were announced.
foxnews.com'I can beat you upโ: Michelle Yeoh tells Golden Globes to 'shut up' for interrupting her speech
During her Golden Globe Awards acceptance speech, Michelle Yeoh hushed a pianist attempting to encourage her exit. At the start of her acceptance speech, Yeoh highlighted her fight against racism, sexism and ageism in Hollywood. โI remember when I first came to Hollywood, it was a dream come true until I got here,โ the Golden Globes winner stated.
news.yahoo.comReview: The good, the bad and the Tuesday of the 2023 Globes
Tuesday night doesnโt really scream โglamorous awards show.โ Hollywood, in large part, turned out too, acting as though it wasnโt a rainy weekday in Southern California and as though they hadnโt just a year ago protested the existence of the show. Brad Pitt and Angela Bassett came.
news.yahoo.comMichelle Yeoh calls co-star and friend Jackie Chan a 'male chauvinistic pig' in resurfaced 1997 interview
An old interview of Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh has gone viral due to her comments about Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan. In an interview on โLate Night with David Lettermanโ in 1997, Yeoh discussed her role in the James Bond spy film โTomorrow Never Diesโ a few days after it premiered. Letterman asked Yeoh during the interview whether Chan was the reason she got into the action genre.
news.yahoo.com'Bad Guys' repeats at No. 1, Liam Neeson's latest misfires
The DreamWorks animated heist movie โThe Bad Guysโ was the top film in U.S. and Canada theaters for the second straight weekend, while the latest Liam Neeson thriller suggested the actorโs particular set of skills may be wearing thin with audiences.
Michelle Yeoh shows Asian immigrant women are 'Everything'
Michelle Yeoh was adamant about one script change before committing to โEverything Everywhere All At Once." The main character's name had to go. At 59, Yeoh commands the lead of the genre-twisting flick by playing someone often invisible โ the Asian immigrant wife and mother trying to be everything for everyone.
news.yahoo.comSXSW plots in-person film fest with 'Atlanta,' 'Lost City'
After the pandemic forced the South by Southwest Film Festival to turn virtual the last two years, the Austin, Texas, festival is plotting a largely in-person event this March that will feature the premieres of the third season of Donald Gloverโs โAtlanta,โ the latest from Richard Linklater and the Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum comedy โThe Lost City.โ.