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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Michelle Yo could become

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Speaker 1: the first ever Asian born winner of a Best Actress

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Speaker 1: Oscar for playing the lead role in Everything, Everywhere, All

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Speaker 1: It Wants, a character that was also originally named Michelle.

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Speaker 1: When the Daniels, the directing and writing duo behind the film,

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Speaker 1: handed her the script they met well, they used the

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Speaker 1: name Michelle because of how badly they wanted her to

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Speaker 1: do the project, but they ended up calling the character Evelyn,

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Speaker 1: based on Michelle's own input and for an important reason,

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Speaker 1: she tells Deadline, I forced them to change her name.

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Speaker 1: I am not a lundromat owner, and that person deserved

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Speaker 1: a voice. An aging immigrant Asian woman who's never had

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Speaker 1: a voice before. Nobody gives her a voice. You walk

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Speaker 1: past her in the supermarket and you don't even give

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Speaker 1: her a second glance. She's someone quite ordinary, but we

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Speaker 1: were able to turn her into someone extraordinary. Oscar's ABC

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Speaker 1: This Sunday, that's Direct from Hollywood.