Everything everywhere all at once after credit scene

It’s no secret that Everything Everywhere All At Once is incredible. Directorial team the Daniels, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, have made an instant classic that’s sure to endure for years to come. The film is funny, exciting, emotional, and gorgeous, but not without a few issues.

Paramount among those is the character played by Jenny Slate: “Big Nose.” Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) calls her that name, playing into an offensive Jewish stereotype, as a way to minimise her and give Evelyn’s eventual growth an off-putting starting point. Which, depending on the viewer, you may agree with or not. Beyond that though, an even bigger problem with calling Slate, a Jewish woman, a name taken from an offensive Jewish stereotype is the fact that the film puts it in writing. Slate’s character is not just called “Big Nose” in the movie, but in the credits as well, and fans online took offence to the characterization.

Now, in a new interview, the film’s writers and directors have responded. First, they confirm that the name “Big Nose” for Slate’s character will be removed from the credits of the film’s digital release. Second, they explained the character — who goes missing for most of the film, only adding to the potential problems — had a scene deleted near the end that would’ve contextualized her a bit, making her seem more human.

“It was one of the disappointing things of having a movie that was bloated — we had to cut things. A couple of characters had to go and Jenny’s was one of them,” Kwan said to Digital Spy. “They have this little moment where Jenny’s character comes in with a weapon and they struggle over it for a moment and [Evelyn] turns it into a phone and becomes a FaceTime phone call with [Slate’s character’s] family, and her son is begging her to come to his birthday party.”

“There was more audible dialogue in the intro about her being estranged from her husband, and there being a birthday party that she’s not invited to,” Scheinert added. “[Which is] why she ends up going to the laundromat party [at the end of the film],” Kwan concluded. “Because even though she’s this seemingly mean-spirited person it’s because she has no one, right? So [there was] going to be more of [that] through a thorough connection.”

The directors seem regretful in the interview, where they also explain the universe Slate’s character is in is meant to be meaner than others, and that “Big Nose” has a more general connotation in Chinese culture (referring to anyone who is white). Most importantly though, they take full responsibility. “We’re not proud of that name,” Scheinert said. “Yeah. Exactly,” Kwan added. “Firstly, it was like it was a shorthand because — out of our laziness. That’s what she was called in the movie, let’s call her that [in the credits]. But now we can see how dehumanising it is.”

Which, they admit, almost is antithetical to the film. “It’s not lost on us, the irony of the fact that a movie in which we’re exploring the fact that when things are too complicated and too messy, you miss each other, and hurt each other. And in this movie, in which we were holding [ourselves to a higher standard], we’re trying to do too much. We missed certain blind spots,” Kwan said.

But, when the film is released digitally June 7, that’ll be partially rectified. Read more quotes from Daniels on this over on Digital Spy.

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The A24 film stars Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang, an exhausted mother and wife whose laundromat is being audited by the IRS. While she’s sitting with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) across from inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdra (Jamie Lee Curtis), she’s suddenly transported into a parallel dimension and spends the film jumping through multiverses.

The scene comes towards the end of the film, during an all-out fight as Evelyn tries to save her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) from the so-called “everything bagel.” The bagel creates an all-consuming black void that can set off the end of the world, and ultimately destroy Joy.

In the new scene, Evelyn travels through the multiverse confronting a few more foes, including Jenny Slate’s Debbie the Dog Mom. Their fight is interrupted when Debbie receives a FaceTime call, revealing that she has a young son who asks if she’s going to take him to a birthday party.

As with her other films “Supercop” and “Silver Hawk,” Yeoh did all her own stunts in the film. In a recent interview with Variety, Yeoh said “the easy part was the choreography and the execution.” She continued, “Physical fighting is relatively easy because I’ve been doing it for so many years. When you’re playing with and using weapons like a fight board or butt plug, I’ll say to the prop master to give me something similar so when I’m not on set and I have time, I can be practicing certain moves. So, it just takes practice.”

A24’s genre-bending, dark comedy will be released on 4K Ultra and Blu-ray on July 5. Bonus features include audio commentary with writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, two featurettes, deleted scenes with optional audio commentary, outtakes, a music visual and the theatrical trailer.