The Hong-Kong cinema icon Michelle Yeoh took on the characters of her lifetime in an absurdist comedy about multiverses, ended up mixing everything she has done in her career.

Michelle Yeoh one of the gajillion strands of the cat’s cradle of multiverses, is a world in which doesn’t start ballet lessons when she was four. This Malaysian actress decides not go to England for practicing dance, with every intention of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and to avoids suffering back injury that forces her to abandon her dream. In question then does not enter a beauty contest and win. Her good friend doesn’t bother to pass her picture to producer.

No one have offer this version of Yeoh a contract, she have not become an action-movie icon during Hong Kong’s wild-and-crazy gonzo-cinema Golden Age. There aren’t late-’90s Bond movies, no instant-classic turns at films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, no scene-stealing taking turns in Marvel movies or as future mother-in-laws armed with withering put-downs. No projects which would involve the star engaging in elaborate combat scenes involving googly eyes, dildos and butt plugs.

Thankfully, we have been blessed with, you’ll hear Yeoh say more than once if you talk to her for a while to exist in a here and now in which everything, everywhere which has gone exactly as it needed to.

According to Michelle, she is treating herself to a cocktail. “It’s the exact opposite of what Evelyn would do,” she giggled, while referring to her character: a dowdy, despairing owner of a dry-cleaning business in Los Angeles, once upon a time, and defied her parents by marrying a young man they disapproved of and left China for America