The year 2022 was one of the most successful years in the professional career of Michelle Yeoh. She received widespread recognition for her role in the A24 film ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’. It created history at the 2023 Academy Awards. She won the Oscar for ‘Best Actress’. The actress has now taken on another matriarchal role, but the stakes are high this time with Netflix’s ‘The Brothers Sun’.
Netflix is clocking the new year with a new mafia familial drama titled ‘The Brothers Sun’. It stars Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chein, and Sam Song Li. The story is about Charles Sun, played by Justin Chein, who is on a run after the death of his father, who was a mafia head in Taiwan. As tensions rise, Charles comes to protect his mother, Eileen, played by Yeoh, and younger brother, Bruce Sun, who is unaware of his family’s ties with the mafia. During a recent interview, Michelle talked about how the action part was challenging for her, both physically and mentally.
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Michelle Yeoh Talks About What Gravitated Her Towards ‘The Brothers Sun’
While there are interesting projects like ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Section 31’ lined up, Michelle Yeoh will be seen in a kickass mafia comedy with ‘The Brothers Sun’. During an interview with Collider, Michelle Yeoh talked about how the challenging action gravitated her toward the project, but at the same time, it was challenging for her.
Michelle Yeoh said, “Oh, you know, with the action genre you get to do crazy things that you won’t do in life normally, right? Who runs around being chased by seven brutes, and then you get to fight them off, and [knock them] out the window. So I find that very challenging. Physically and mentally very challenging.”
Yeoh continued, “But of course, like all action sequences, there must be drama behind it. The reason for fighting. It’s like, is it defensive? Is it offensive? Is it just to play and tease the other person? So it’s very important to set the tone.”
The actress revealed what gravitated her towards the project. She added, “And what appealed to me, in The Brother’s Sun, was this incredible high-octane choreography of action sequences where it is peppered with so much humor.”
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The Actress Revealed That The Telling Of A Family Tale Through Action Genre Was Appealing
During the Collider interview, Michelle Yeoh also revealed that Brad Falchuk and Bryon Wu’s telling of a tale of a family through the mafia lens and the action genre in ‘The Brothers Sun’ also appealed to her. She admitted that the story can get very dark, but it is the way that the two told the story, making it about family and love is what helped her.
Michelle Yeoh continued, “It can be very, very dark, and what appealed to me was such a dark kind of story could be told in such a way where, at the end of the day, it’s family, it’s love. It’s about sacrifice, and very importantly about forgiveness and coming back together again. That was the real basis of this series. And that really, really appealed to me.”
Michelle added, “This immigrant family, who had a mother who had to make such horrible choices at the beginning to get to where she is today. So it was based on that and when I read the script, I was like, “this could be a lot of fun.”
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