If she can do it, I can freaking well do it as well.

That is the most important thing.

I just work very hard.

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’Everett

All they have to do is find an opportunity and get there.

I was so terrified, sitting here thinking, what if I dont get nominated?

Sometimes you dont do things for yourself.

Oscars

You tell stories because its important for that story to be told.

And you need need it to be out there.

At 5.25am Pacific time, just as the nominations were being announced, the planes wi-fi connection dropped out.

Feeling awkward, Hsu asked the stewardess to re-set the planes system.

Stephanie Hsu is an Oscar Nominee!

And to be able to get to experience this together feels like some cycles are breaking, you know?

Thats a big deal.

I was out auditioning left and right and I could not get one single job, he said.

I was just so worried that [getting hired forEverything Everywhere] was a one-time thing and thats it.

Nobody wants to hire me again.

Then the movie came out and it changed my life.

Everything that has happened since has been unbelievable.

When he was making the movie an Oscar nomination was not even a distant dream in his mind.

I remember thinking we would just be lucky if we made our budget back.

We didnt even have the award season on our minds.

Its like, were getting nominated.

Is that even possible?

Its just this little movie that could.