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Line 25: ==Development== The character that would become Evelyn Quan Wang was originally written to be portrayed by [[Jackie Chan]], until Kwan and Scheinert reconceived the character as a woman, feeling it would make the husband–wife dynamic in the story more relatable,<ref name="Bergeson 2022">{{cite web |last=Bergeson |first=Samantha |date=March 15, 2022 |title=Michelle Yeoh's Role in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Was Originally Written for Jackie Chan |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-michelle-yeoh-jackie-chan-1234708097/|website=[[IndieWire]]|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424171436/https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-michelle-yeoh-jackie-chan-1234708097/ |archive-date=April 24, 2022 |access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref> naming the character Michelle Wang, after their favorite to cast in the role, [[Michelle Yeoh]], who said, "If you ask the Daniels, when they started on this draft, they focused on, 'Well, we are doing this for Michelle Yeoh.'"<ref>{{cite web|last=Smart|first=Jack|date=April 13, 2022|title=Michelle Yeoh on the roller coaster ride of Everything Everywhere All at Once|url=https://www.avclub.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-michelle-yeoh-interv-1848785883|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|publisher=[[G/O Media]]|access-date=April 17, 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417195646/https://www.avclub.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-michelle-yeoh-interv-1848785883|archive-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref> The character's first name was eventually changed to Evelyn. With her resemblance to the version of Evelyn as a martial artist and film star,<ref name="Radulovic 2022">{{cite web|last=Radulovic|first=Petrana|date=April 11, 2022|title=Michelle Yeoh's personal guide to Everything Everywhere All at Once's vast multiverse|url=https://www.polygon.com/23020865/michelle-yeoh-interview-everything-everywhere-all-at-once|website=Polygon|access-date=April 17, 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417195646/https://www.polygon.com/23020865/michelle-yeoh-interview-everything-everywhere-all-at-once|archive-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref> Yeoh opposed naming the character Michelle. "Evelyn deserves her own story to be told. This is a very ordinary mother [and] housewife who is trying her best to be a good mother to her daughter, a good daughter to her father, a wife that's trying to keep the family together [...] I don't like to integrate me, Michelle Yeoh, into the characters that I play, because they all deserve their own journey and their stories to be told".<ref name="Radulovic 2022" /> It was announced in August 2018 that Yeoh had been cast to star in what was described as an "interdimensional action film" from Kwan and Scheinert, with [[Russo brothers|Anthony and Joe Russo]] attached to produce.<ref>{{cite web|last=Galuppo|first=Mia|date=August 30, 2018|title=Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina in Talks for Film From 'Swiss Army Man' Directors|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michelle-yeoh-awkwafina-reunite-film-swiss-army-man-directors-1138633|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=August 30, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411074205/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michelle-yeoh-awkwafina-reunite-film-swiss-army-man-directors-1138633|archive-date=April 11, 2021}}</ref> | |||