'This movie is going to mess with your brains!': Jamie Lee Curtis on Everything everywhere all at once

When the arctic winds of Austin, TX, took a breather in 2022, a heatwave of cinematic excitement erupted inside the Paramount Theatre. The world premiere of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' at SXSW 2022 had the audience cheering, laughing, and offering standing ovations. The film, brought to life by the Daniels and AGBO, evoked the magic of the big screen, rekindling the passion for cinema after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

"This Movie is Going to Mess with Your Brains!": Jamie Lee Curtis on the Mind-Bending Movie

As reported by Deadline, the star-studded cast included the effervescent Jamie Lee Curtis, who exclaimed, "This movie is going to mess with your brains!" Indeed, the flick proved to be a thrilling ride, weaving a tale of a struggling Chinese immigrant matriarch (Michelle Yeoh), her sensitive husband (Ke Huy Quan), and their rebellious daughter, Eleanor, (Stephanie Hsu).

Their seemingly mundane existence gets a cosmic twist as they find themselves in the midst of a multiverse, facing off against enemies in parallel worlds. It's as if 'Brazil', 'The Matrix', and 'John Woo' had a cinematic baby, with an added dash of 'Being Michelle Yeoh'.

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert's Journey from Music Videos to the Multiverse

Directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert traced their journey from making music videos to this family-action feature. Scheinert humorously revealed how their movie drew from a host of rejected music video ideas. "We had all these leftover ideas, so we said, let's make a movie with everything in it," Scheinert explained. "So we can use all those things that Rihanna said 'No' to."

The real miracle, however, was getting Yeoh on board. "We wrote a part that no one on Earth could play, but Michelle Yeoh," Scheinert revealed, "She said 'yes' which made the movie so much easier to get made."

A year since its premiere, 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' stands as a testament to the undying allure of cinema, a heartening beacon of movie magic's triumphant return.

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