We might still be processing the existential beauty of Daniels’ latest project, but they are here to break down one of our favorite scenes from the film.
If you haven’t watched Everything Everywhere All at Once, then you are missing out on some of the most fun and emotionally moving fight sequences of cinematic history. Each fight is motivated by the characters’ emotional desires to live in or out of the existential conundrum of the multiverse.
Evelyn Quan Wang (Michelle Yeoh) and the IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdra (Jamie Lee Curtis) are unassuming characters that we wouldn’t expect to have some of the most memorable scenes, but their first fight to their last embrace keeps us returning to the theater for more.
Vanity Fair sat down with the Daniels and Michelle Yeoh to break down Evelyn’s and Deirdre’s first fight sequence at the IRS building, highlighting the audience’s first introduction to the film’s multiverse and how Daniels found the perfect balance of the film’s tonal mismatch. You can check out the full video below.
Author: Alyssa Miller
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