The two-time Golden Horse Award winner isn't bored with playing anguished mothers.
Maybe because she’s a mother herself — to a 10-year daughter whom she shares with Hong Kong action choreographer husbandIn fact, she’s barely scraped the surface.
“There’s a Chinese proverb, the same kind of rice provides for 100 kinds of people,” the Malaysian actress tells 8days.sg over Zoom from Los Angeles. “Yes, I always play this anguished mother, but her anguish comes from different places.”, Yeo and Singaporean-born Hollywood-based Chin Han and Yeo play Christine and Simon Wang, the Chinese immigrant parents of Jin , a teen trying to navigate the badlands that's high school.
Outwardly, Christine isn’t unlike the other mothers Yeo has portrayed before: she nags at her child, quarrels with her spouse, agonises over the finances… so what makes Christine stand out from the other variants? Oh, did I forget to mention that the Wangs are pawns in a heavenly power struggle involving the Monkey King (