History Trivia / EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

* PromotedFanboy: Michelle Yeoh found cases of this in both DANIELS, who downright wrote her character for her, and fight choreographers Brian and Andy Le, who she said knew all her moves given their martial arts lessons were [[TaughtByTelevision watching Hong Kong movies]].
* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Queer Creator/StephanieHsu as queer Joy Wang. Joy's girlfriend Becky is played by Tallie Medel, who is nonbinary.

* TheDanza: Defied out of universe. Originally, Evelyn Wang was ''Michelle'' Wang, after Creator/MichelleYeoh, but Yeoh wanted there to be separation between her and her character and asked for the change.

** After the protagonist switch was made, the Daniels were so fixated on having Michelle Yeoh play the role that Evelyn's original name was changed to Michelle. Yeoh personally turned down this idea, as she wanted the story of Evelyn to stand on its own and dislikes integrating her personality with her characters.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Queer Creator/StephanieHsu as queer Joy Wang. Joy's girlfriend is played by Tallie Medel, who is nonbinary.

* UncreditedRole: Music/RandyNewman's voice role as Raccacoonie is uncredited in the theatrical release of the film, though he is still credited as a singer in the song "Now We're Cookin'". Averted in the home media release, where he's properly credited for the role.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Queer Creator/StephanieHsu as queer Joy Wang.

** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis said the script was [[QuirkyWork so weird]] she barely understood it, but she jumped at the opportunity of working with Creator/MichelleYeoh; she wound up taking home an Oscar for it.
** Michelle Yeoh herself also was weirded out by the premise, but felt intrigued and loved the challenge. She was also moved by the scope of her role in that it would allow her to touch on all aspects of the acting skills she had built up over her career, [[https://youtu.be/DHOSiFzcHJ8 notably getting emotional]] once while speaking about it.

** Hsu and Yeoh both appeared in both ''Everything Everywhere'' and 2021's ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''. The Russo brothers produced both ''Everything Everywhere'' and many Marvel films (although not ''Shang-Chi'' itself).

* UncreditedRole: Music/RandyNewman's voice role as Raccacoonie is uncredited in the film, though he is still credited as a singer in the song "Now We're Cookin'".

* ApprovalOfGod: [[https://gizmodo.com/pixar-raccacoonie-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-1850114577 According to the film's producer]] — Johnathan Wang — everyone at Creator/{{Pixar}} loved the [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Raccacoonie]] parody and gave the okay to its inclusion in the film. Creator/BradBird, the director of ''Ratatouille'', [[https://www.yahoo.com/video/everything-everywhere-once-directors-daniels-231808184.html loved the parody as well]], finding it to be very flattering and funny.

** Michelle Yeoh herself also was weirded out by the premise, but felt intrigued and loved the challenge. She was also moved by the scope of her role in that it would allow her to touch on all aspects of the acting wheelhouse she had built up over her career, [[https://youtu.be/DHOSiFzcHJ8 notably getting emotional]] once while speaking about it.

** With ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'', another movie that came out in 2022 that explores TheMultiverse. The two were almost in direct competition with one another -- both movies were set to come out in March at one point until ''Doctor Strange'' underwent a ReleaseDateChange, though the two still opened less than two months apart. Though ''Multiverse of Madness'' is a SuperheroHorror adventure movie while this film is a genre-bending, action dramedy.

* PromotedFanboy: Michelle Yeoh found cases of this in both DANIELS, [[CreatorChosenCasting who downright wrote her character for her]], and fight choreographers Brian and Andy Le, who she said knew all her moves given their martial arts lessons were [[TaughtByTelevision watching Hong Kong movies]].

** With ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''; both are about an inter-generational conflict between a Chinese immigrant mother and her daughter raised in North America, with a supernatural twist complicating things. Unlike ''Turning Red'' however, [[spoiler:the protagonist/antagonist roles are switched]].

** For some bizarre reason, Japan will release this film in March 2023, basically ''a year'' after its original release in the U.S. and after being released basically anywhere else (no pun intended).
** The same thing happened, in less degree, in South Korea, when the film was released there at October 2022.

** Michelle Yeoh herself also was weirded out by the premise, but felt intrigued and loved the challenge. In a [[https://youtu.be/DHOSiFzcHJ8 GQ video]] she also was moved by finally finding someone who understood that she could "do all these things".

* MemeAcknowledgment: Creator/KeHuyQuan claims that Creator/TheDaniels considered him for the role of Waymond after they saw a meme joking that American politician UsefulNotes/AndrewYang was Quan's Short Round character all grown up.

** Michelle Yeoh herself also was weirded out by the premise, but felt intrigued and loved the challenge.

** The scenes where Evelyn and Joy were rocks were supposed to have spoken dialogue but Yeoh suggested to the Daniels that the scenes should be completely silent with text dialogue instead.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: An accidental example, if you can believe it. Daniels had intended to write the protagonist with undiagnosed symptoms of ADHD, only for Daniel Kwan to discover that ''he'd'' been living with it undiagnosed for a good half of his life through their research. Evelyn being implied to have ADHD is still retained in the final product.

** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis said the script was [[QuirkyWork so weird]] she barely understood it, but she jumped the opportunity at working with Creator/MichelleYeoh; she wound up taking home an Oscar for it.

* SleeperHit: The film opened [[https://nofilmschool.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-box-office in only ten theaters]] but played strongly in limited release. It went wide two weeks later and remained in the domestic box office top ten for three months, buoyed by strong reviews and word of mouth (plus a relative scarcity in post-[[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] lockdown competition), and eventually became indie distributor A24's highest-grossing film ever. It grossed over $70 million domestically, more than every major Oscar contender from 2021 except for ''Film/Dune2021'', and over $100 million worldwide off of an estimated $25 million budget[[note]]later revealed to be ''[[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/movies/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-oscars.html $14.3 million!]]''[[/note]] (the first independent film of the pandemic era and first A24 film to pass that mark).

** For some bizarre reason, Japan will release this film in March 2023, basically ''a year'' after his original release in the U.S. and after being released basically anywhere else (no pun intended).

* ApprovalOfGod: [[https://gizmodo.com/pixar-raccacoonie-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-1850114577 According to the film's producer]] — Johnathan Wang — everyone at Creator/{{Pixar}} loved the [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Raccacoonie]] parody and gave the okay to its inclusion in the film. Creator/BradBird, the director of ''Ratatouille'', [[https://www.yahoo.com/video/everything-everywhere-once-directors-daniels-231808184.html loved the parody as well]].

** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis said the script was [[QuirkyWork so weird]] she barely understood it, but she jumped the opportunity at working with Creator/MichelleYeoh.