Michelle Yeoh captivates fans and critics in her newest role in 'The Brothers Sun'
Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is receiving widespread praise for her performance in Netflix’s “The Brothers Sun.”
Less than a year after winning her first Oscar, Michelle Yeoh is once again receiving widespread praise, this time for her performance in Netflix’s “The Brothers Sun.”
The eight-part series follows brothers Bruce and Charles Sun (played by Sam Song Li and Justin Chien), as the two contend with their roles in a family of gangsters. An assassination attempt against their father, known as Big Sun (Johnny Kou), brings Charles from Taipei to Los Angeles to protect his family from enemies of a triad that his own mother (Yeoh) has a past with.
Yeoh’s role as Eileen “Mama” Sun has some similarities to her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” where she also packed a punch as an immigrant mother caring for a fractured family.
Viewers agreed that it was hard to look away from Yeoh as the show moved from energetic martial arts sequences to nuanced explorations of Asian American family life.
“The Brothers Sun is just another example of the fact that Michelle Yeoh is a god amongst us and will never fail to deliver,” one person wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Rating: 5