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“I’m just going to stand here and take this all in,” Michelle Yeoh said when she took the stage at Tuesday’s Golden Globes to accept her award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. And over the next several minutes, the Everything Everywhere All at Once star relished every moment of that triumph.
“Forty years, not letting go of this,” she added, thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving her the award. “It’s been an amazing journey and incredible fight to be here today. But I think it’s been worth it.” The rapt crowd of her peers broke into a laugh when Yeoh quipped, “I remember when I first came to Hollywood, it was a dream come true—until I got here.”
“Look at this face!” the Malaysian-born actress said of herself. “I came here and was told, ‘You’re a minority,’ and I’m like, ‘No, that’s not possible.’” Yeoh recalled that when someone marveled that she could speak English, she replied, “Yeah, the flight here was about 13 hours long, so I learned.”