Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh, who is starring in the upcoming Paramount+ feature film Star Trek: Section 31, recently said there was a time she considered quitting action films, but an Oscar-winner helped her to change her mind. Per People, Yeoh, appearing on an episode of The Graham Norton Show told the host that she almost decided to step “back” from action films after a bad stunt accident, but Quentin Tarantino advised her against it.

“I was in Hong Kong and depressed as I had had a bad accident while filming the stunt,” Yeoh said on the show.“and thought maybe I should take a step back. When I met (Tarantino) he was so enthusiastic and said ,” said the actress, who won an Academy Award for 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once and recently appeared in 2024’s blockbuster, Wicked.

Yeoh, who has been in films like Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Crazy Rich Asians, said she has not yet worked with Tarantino, who won Oscars for 2012’s Django Unchained and 1994’s Pulp Fiction. She said, “I have never worked with him, and when I asked him about Kill Bill and why he hadn’t thought of me, he said,

The actress’ next starring role is in Star Trek: Section 31, which premieres exclusively on Paramount+ on Jan. 24. The movie marks the first Trek film produced in the Paramount era, and its director, Olatunde Osunsanmi recently praised Yeoh’s performance as Philippa Georgiou, a character she originated in Star Trek: Discovery.

“At the end of the day, each scene usually belongs to one particular character,” Osunsanmi told Entertainment Weekly. “In Section 31, 99 percent of those scenes belong to Michelle Yeoh’s character Philippa Georgiou. So then what you have is a movie that is visually inspired by who she is,” he continued. “ she has also discovered that she is kind and has the opportunity for redemption. Instead of a man on fire, and a visual design that’s unpredictable for the first time in this modern era.”

Section 31 follows Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou character, who runs a nightclub called the Baraam and is tapped to join Section 31, a secret, black-ops division of Starfleet. “In this current version of Trek, everything is just a bit more on edge and unpredictable, which mirrors Philippa Georgiou’s personality,” Osunsanmi added.

Star Trek: Section 31 premieres on Jan. 24 on Paramount+.

Source: People