It wasn’t too long ago that Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan blew our minds as the stars of Everything Everywhere All At Once, before each of them became first-time Oscar winners for their roles in the multiverse epic. In their latest roles, the actors share the same project once more for new Disney+ release, called American Born Chinese, but funny enough, it wasn’t the Best Picture winner that brought them together this time around.
When CinemaBlend spoke to producer Melvin Mar about putting together the cast and crew for American Born Chinese, which is now streaming in its entirety with a Disney+ subscription, he shared that it was Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton who served as the connection to bring Michelle Yeoh on board of the book-to-screen adaptation. In his words:
