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Ahead of her caller bid The Witcher: Blood Origin, Michelle Yeoh gave fans an update connected the long-awaited Crazy Rich Asians sequel. Find retired what she had to accidental here.
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Michelle Yeoh is anxiously awaiting the Crazy Rich Asians sequel similar the remainder of us.
While promoting her newest series, Netflix's The Witcher: Blood Origin, the histrion gave an update connected the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2018 Jon M. Chu hit.
"We are inactive waiting connected it," she exclusively told E! News. "We cognize there's a writer connected it, truthful we'll see. Fingers crossed."
The sequel would follow Kevin Kwan's publication sequel, China Rich Girlfriend, which follows Nick (Henry Golding) and Rachel (Constance Wu) arsenic they hole for their California wedding. Yeoh would presumably reprise her relation arsenic Eleanor Sung-Young, a.k.a. Nick's domineering parent who works to support them isolated in Crazy Rich Asians.
Production has been up successful the aerial for years, with writer Adele Lim leaving the task successful 2019 due to wage disparity betwixt herself and cowriter Peter Chiarelli. In March, Warner Bros. and Color Force announced that writer-director Amy Wang would beryllium penning the sequel instead.
Yeoh isn't the lone formed subordinate who's clamoring for a sequel arsenic Golding himself told E! News successful March that helium "can't hold to get backmost to Singapore," wherever the archetypal movie took place, to commencement moving connected the sequel.
"I ever bug [Chu] astir it and helium tells him the aforesaid happening each time: They're trying to fig retired the writing," helium said. "I cognize they're moving connected it, but hopefully sooner than later."
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In the meantime, Yeoh stars arsenic the honorable sword-elf Scian in The Witcher: Blood Origin, which is acceptable 1,200 years earlier the events of the original. And, arsenic a longtime instrumentality of The Witcher herself, Yeoh was anxious to grow the series' already-wide canon.
"I get to play an elf, and you don't spot an Asian-looking elf moving astir a lot," she explained. "I emotion this full satellite of magic and monsters and defeating them, but I besides wanted to larn wherefore determination were these monsters. In Blood Origin, you'll find out, and it was a truly breathtaking travel to beryllium a portion of."
The Witcher: Blood Origin premieres Dec. 25 connected Netflix. Crazy Rich Asians is disposable to rent connected Prime Video and Apple TV+.
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