![]() ![]() ![]() Then he declared triumphantly: “Look at us now!” ![]() At the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Quan said: “To all those at home who are watching, who are struggling and waiting to be seen, please keep on going because the spotlight will one day find you.” Ninety-four-year-old James Hong, the film’s crotchety patriarch, reflected at the SAGs on Hollywood’s dismal history of depicting Asian and Asian-American life. On stage after stage, the Daniels, Yeoh, Quan and more have brought the house down with moving speeches about Asian representation. It’s about a very ordinary person - which we all are -who’s given the opportunity to be a superhero with superpowers that are love and compassion.” In times of chaos and turbulence, this is a movie about healing. “We had ambitions because we felt that our story just needed to be told. “We’re a tiny little movie with a big beating heart, without a doubt,” said Yeoh. Reached by phone the morning of Oscar nominations, Yeoh said she never imagined, when they started making “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” that they were destined for the Academy Awards. “If our movie can un-typecast people and un-typecast the community, that’s a pretty dope thing,” says Scheinert. An absurdist indie that pairs existentialism and everything bagels, released way back in March last year, is not just heading for a few possible wins at the Oscars on March 12. Yet “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has emerged as the most improbable of Academy Awards heavyweights. “At some point we’re going to get pulled out of this joke and be back to our own lives and be like, ‘Oh, wouldn’t that be cool? Too bad.’” ![]() “It feels like we’re in our movie sometimes,” Scheinert says. They never expected that their madcap multiverse tale would take them to the Oscars. NEW YORK (AP) - They dreamt up universes of hotdog fingers, googly-eyed rocks and “Raccaccoonie.” But Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, in this world or another, never imagined the kind of runaway success “Everything Everywhere All at Once” would have on the Oscar trail.įor the past year, since “ Everything Everywhere All at Once” debuted at SXSW, the filmmaking duo known as the Daniels has been living in what has sometimes felt to them like a parallel dimension. ![]()
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