Before 2017, an action franchise starring a 63-year-old woman was unthinkable. Then came The Queen’s Gambit of action: in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and Helen Mirren in The Fast & the Furious franchise. Yeoh, at 60, won the Oscar for Best Actress for doing splits, wielding fanny packs, and navigating multiversal chaos. She shattered the rule that action is a young man’s game.