Stephanie Hsu Put Everything Into Her Everything Everywhere Audition

Stephanie Hsu rocked my world earlier this 12 months when she exploded (actually) onto screens because the intra-dimensional being of final energy, Jobu Tupaki. As Everything Everywhere All at Once turned a important darling and is now beginning to entice Oscar consideration, A24 has launched Hsu’s audition for Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki, and fellas, it truly is every part on a bagel.

Hsu was not enjoying round! Even in this audition, it’s clear that she had the imaginative and prescient of Jobu rocketing round a number of completely different universes on the similar time. This is what drove her to insanity, and what led her to determine that her final purpose ought to be the entire destruction of the multiverse. It’s extremely cool to see Hsu work in this sort of pared-down setting, and it solely cements the truth that she introduced one thing extremely particular to the set and this efficiency.

“The Daniels [who directed the film] surprised me by showing this clip to an audience at the Hamptons Film Festival when I was receiving the Breakthrough Artist Award,” Hsu stated to Deadline. “I had never seen it! The first thing I said after I saw the clips was, ‘Woah, I guess I really understood this movie!’”

The movie is presently doing numbers at numerous award exhibits in America, and there’s a whole lot of buzz round Michelle Yeoh’s efficiency as nicely. If she’s not not less than in rivalry for a Best Actress award throughout this 12 months’s Oscars, one thing could have completely gone fallacious.

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