Quit acting due to lack of roles before coming back to win an Oscar
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The 95th Annual Academy Awards
The 95th Annual Academy Awards
Ke Huy Quan's first role in Hollywood was as Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at 12. He starred as Data in The Goonies for his second role, but his acting slowly pewtered out until he quit after 2002 due to being unable to find parts as an Asian actor. Quan returned to acting after seeing the success of the Asian-majority film Crazy Rich Asians in 2018. His second role after his comeback as Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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They say stories like that only happen in the movies; I can’t believe it’s happening to me. This is the American dream!
Ke Huy Quan
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Ke Huy Quan, Comeback Kid: The Oscar Winner on ‘Everything Everywhere,’ Kissing Harrison Ford and Why He’s Worried About What Comes Next
Ke Huy Quan was on a mission. He’d just been named best supporting actor for his performance as Waymond Wang, the goofy husband of a laundromat owner in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and he wanted to experience the moment with Steven Spielberg. Spielberg, you see, was the filmmaker who cast him in his breakout role in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” when Quan was 12 years old.
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Ke Huy Quan wins best supporting actor Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once
He continued: “My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp. Somehow I ended up on Hollywood’s biggest stage!
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Ke Huy Quan: From Coolest Kid of the Mid-80s to Comeback King!
Then there’s Quan. For many, it was the first triumphant return to the screen of Data/Short Round. In truth, it’s the first role of significance he’s had in something so major since 1985 as Data. Quan was a revelation. It struck me even when watching it at the cinema. This is Hollywood at its best. It’s the comeback kid, the feel-good resurrection story.
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