Michelle Yeoh Isn’t Ready for Her New Grandson to See Her as a Witch in ‘Wicked’
variety.comValerie Wu Intern Michelle Yeoh doesn’t want her newborn grandchild to see “Wicked” — or at least, not until he’s older. On the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of her Netflix series “The Brothers Sun,” Variety asked Yeoh what film of hers she would want her grandson, Maxime, to see first.
Yeoh mused for a while, bringing up her upcoming project, Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked,” in which she plays school headmistress Madame Morrible, before ultimately deciding against it. “I was thinking, I’ve done a musical, ‘Wicked.’ … I play a witch,” Yeoh said, referencing Madame Morrible’s status as a villain — and her desire for her grandson to not see her as one. “What is not going to traumatize them?” She concluded: “Maybe not one of my movies.
Until they’re older.” Yeoh then bashfully made a quip about audiences witnessing her singing in the upcoming “Wicked” films: “I say, ‘Good luck to you all.'” The two-part “Wicked” is adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from Gregory Maguire’s novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” (which was based off of L.
Frank Baum’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”). It follows the ostracized, green-skinned Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and how she became the Wicked Witch of the West.
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