Michelle Yeohsays she was nearly nowhere to be found inEverything Everywhere All at Once.

“They’re like, ‘But why?

It’s so you.’

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.Allyson Riggs/A24

I’m like, ‘No, I’m not an Asian immigrant mother who’s running a laundromat.

She needs her own voice.’

That was the only thing.

I’m like, ‘If you don’t change the name, I’m not coming in.'”

A representative for distributorA24confirmed to EW that Yeoh requested the change.

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