This month, AARP The Magazine will feature Michelle Yeoh, and Screen Rant has a first look at the cover, plus an exclusive interview the actor gave the publication. AARP is the nation’s largest nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that advocates for the enrichment and health of people over 50 years old. Yeoh, who won her first Academy Award in 2023, is 62.
Screen Rant is happy to present the ’s review called a “near-perfect adaptation of the musical”. Check out the cover featuring Yeoh, below, and scroll on to watch the full interview with the actor.
How Michelle Yeoh’s Cover Story Proves She Is Still On The Rise
Michelle Yeoh has long been something of a screen legend, and yet that legend has only continued to grow. Yeoh established herself as a stunt performer and actor in Hong Kong action and comedy films, even performing some of her best fight scenes alongside Jackie Chan in Police Story 3: Supercop, but later had to work incredibly hard to win her way into the hearts of American audiences. AARP The Magazine charts her journey, including her response to the surprising reception she found when trying to procure work in the United States:
Michelle Yeoh: People started saying, ‘You’re a minority.’ How did I suddenly become a minority? There are how many billions of us around the world? Also I come from Malaysia, where we are multiracial, just different cultures in a beautiful country.
Yeoh would of course go on to appear and star in a hard-to-beat list of films, franchises, and TV series which includes Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Crazy Rich Asians, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It wasn’t until she was 60, however, that Yeoh won her first Academy Award for starring in the absurd but deeply meaningful Everything Everywhere All At Once. As the cover story reveals through a quote from Jamie Lee Curtis, a co-star in that film, that was not a peak for the actor, but a beginning:
Jamie Lee Curtis: Michelle Yeoh’s been preparing for this moment her entire career … Decades and decades of suiting up and showing up, and we both now have the opportunity to step into a new level of work. It’s a testament to her perseverance, her belief in herself and her understanding that these moments don’t come very often, and you must take full advantage of them.
Yeoh’s cover story stresses that the actor has released four films and three TV series since winning her Everything Everywhere All At Once Oscar, plus shooting two feature. What’s more, those and other projects are poised to be strong continuations of her current successful run, with Avatar 4 & 5, Star Trek: Section 31, and the mini-series Blade Runner 2099 all on her slate. With opening weekend box office numbers already looking strong for Wicked, AARP The Magazine is highlighting an actor who shows no signs of slowing down.
The December 2024/January 2025 AARP The Magazine issue will be available in homes in December, and is online now.
