Improvising the “Hot Dog Fingers” breakup scene
Everything Everywhere All at Once presents so many fun alternate takes on Evelyn and the people in her immediate orbit. The glimpses of her life where she and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Deirdre Beaubeirdre are lovers would be interesting on their own, but the fact that they’re lovers in a world where everyone has floppy uncooked hot dogs for fingers is so deeply weird. In another movie, it would easily undermine everything (everywhere, all at once) that the movie is going for, but the Daniels’ directing and the performances from Yeoh and Curtis manage to sell it. Yes, it’s still strange, but it remains as tender and warmhearted as the other love stories in the film.
