‘Everything Everywhere’ Star Stephanie Hsu on Lessons Learned from Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan: ‘Careers Need Ebbs and Flows’
variety.comStephanie Hsu is really busy — the “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar nominee has been commuting from California to Australia for the past few weeks while filming “The Fall Guy” with Ryan Gosling and attending various events and ceremonies to promote “Everything Everywhere,” directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, which earned 11 Academy Award nominations.
She beams with pride when discussing this moment in her life. The daughter of a Chinese immigrant who was a single mother, Hsu has been talking with her family and friends about the road that’s led her to this moment — including her best friend Alan, who told her she did it without having to be “born into this industry,” or a family friend emailing her mother to recall the time she brought a young Hsu to the friend’s house intending to convince her to study business. “Aren’t you glad she didn’t?” the friend wrote.
Her next film, “Joy Ride,” directed by “Crazy Rich Asians” writer Adele Lim, will screen at SXSW. “We’re going to play the second weekend because I have to go to the Oscars,” Hsu tells Variety with a sense of disbelief. “It’s pretty wild.” Over Zoom, Hsu dishes on her nom, lessons learned and being a future bingo night winner. How does it feel to be an Oscar nominee? It feels surreal for many reasons, but I’ve been reflecting on how few people ever experience what I’m going through — as humans and actors.
If I get to live to be 95, and I’m retired in a bingo hall, they will announce me as “Tonight’s winner for bingo is onetime Academy Award nominee Stephanie.” There were a record number of Asian Oscar nominees this year.
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