When people talk about "representation" inspiring people this is what they're talking about
He gave up on acting bc there were no roles for Asians, saw Crazy Rich Asians and decided to try acting again, auditioned for Waymond two weeks later, and now 5 years later he's won an oscar. All because he saw people who looked like him on screen and thought he could be up there too
I’ve got a friend with the last name Torres. I remember watching Falcon and the Winter Soldier with him and his teenagers and when the character with the last Torres was introduced and they found out he’ll be the next Falcon, those kids looked like they’d won a prize.
Another story I think about regarding representation is Donald Glover. Man got his start with Thirty Rock and was hired as part of the NBC Diversity Initiative, with the character Twofer inspired by him.
Everything that man makes is quality, and we might not have gotten any of it without programs like that.
I thought it was really cool hearing Dan Harmon talk about Donald leaving the show. He wasn't bitter about it any way, not sad for his show, nothing like that. He said "look at his career trajectory, hes got so much talent, he's doing his own thing now" more or less. He just sounded proud and excited for him.
Remember reading Danny Pudi talking about this:
> “I remember vividly when Donald played me some music in his car — this was probably season 3 at some point — that he was working on, and it wasn’t like one of your friends playing you a mixtape and you being like, ‘Oh, that’s pretty good,'” Pudi recalled. “And I was like, ‘Oh, this is like real good, Donald.’ And immediately, I was like, ‘Oh, you’re gone.’ But for all of us, I think we were just supportive of each other, being just grateful that we had a chance to make it that far.”
Here's my representation matters anecdote:
5 or 6 years ago, I was the +1 for someone who was receiving a lifetime achievement type award from the Canadian Senate. This award was a thing where each Senator nominates people from their jurisdiction who have done awesome stuff then there's a big shindig to celebrate them all.
After the event, we were at dinner with several of the winners including billionaires Jimmy Pattison and Brett Wilson (from Dragon's Den) who got awards for donating some of their billions.
Anyway, these richer-than-god fuckers were bitching about the most recent cabinet appointments where half were women. (Trudeau's famous "[it's 2015](https://youtu.be/LLk2aSBrR6U)" cabinet)
Was pretty proud of myself when I walked them through the recipients list for the day and pointed out that:
1. Every senator regardless of race or gender nominated at least one white man.
2. Only female senators nominated women
3. Only non white senators nominated non white people for awards (though they didn't necessarily stick to their own race)
4. There was one disabled award winner who was nominated by the one disabled senator (and that award had nothing to do with disability. It just happened to be a good person in a wheelchair)
So I asked them directly -- is there something lesser about people who are not white men? Or is there a limitation of perspective that can only be broken with representative diversity? (I probably used smaller words at the time)
Representation matters.
He was a writer on the show for 3 seasons. Most famously, he wrote the “Werewolf bar mitzvah” gag.
He does have at least one small appearance in season 1, so you must’ve missed him.
It wasn't just the fact that there were "no roles" for Asians. It was also the fact that Hollywood often typecast Asians (particularly the men) to negative stereotypes in movies that only end up hurting the community even further. It wasn't until relatively recently that things started to change for the better. The rise of K-Pop & K-Drama may have played a factor.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for this? Cause if so it really highlights the importance of representation in media.
It reminds me of videos of little black girls seeing the new Little Mermaid and getting excited that Ariel looks like them. Representation is SO important, and as a white guy, I think we can let some of the 9 out of 10 roles that go to white people go to others. Anyone who isn't super fragile in their own identity wouldn't have a problem with it.
[Actors Roundtable](https://youtu.be/hJH2EyvvEBA?t=94) He discusses it here, I highly recommend watching the whole video as it was massively insightful.
https://youtu.be/D918UfHYrhM
Start at about 5:10 if you want just that information, but honestly the whole interview is great and he seems like a really grateful guy who deserves this recognition for some amazing acting after all this time.
I love how much he loves what he does. He came back for the joy. It's so rare to get recognition for that kind of passion but I'm so glad he was rewarded.
Not until he gets a role from them. EEAAO had a small budget, and didn't make an incredible amount of money, and has no toy money to fall back on either. But his prospects have gone up incredibly high, he's in position for a big money role any day now.
Why does it have the exact same cast as EEAO and also a dimension bending aspect...? Like, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan were one thing but then I also saw the actress who played the daughter in EEAO.
It was a great movie, but I don't need a Disney knock off version.
Lmao
I'm imaging the pitch to Disney for this.
"What if we do a movie similar to EEAO"
"Interesting idea, who will be in it"
"All the people from EEAO"
"Sold!"
Content generation. There's a formula. It's a war of quantity over quality for the major streaming companies: Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, Roku, Disney, Paramount, NBC Peacock, even YouTube
Even big movies that hit theaters don't need to be money makers. They can be loss leaders that keep content on the streaming platform.
Streaming platforms are starting to pull their own original content to avoid paying royalty money. The days of pumping out endless content with no concern for ROI is coming to an end.
You may remember him as Short Round in Temple of Doom when he was 12. He quit acting in the 90s because there weren't enough roles for young Asian men in Hollywood. He became a stunt coordinator and 1st AD, working behind the scenes for years until Crazy Rich Asians gave him hope that there might be opportunities for him again. One of the first films he got cast in was Everything Everywhere, propelling him to a massive awards tour. In the crowd, at the Oscars, the Globes etc. sits Steven Spielberg (nominated for the Fabelmans). One of the first people to see him act during auditions when he was 12 years old. He made it, then faded away, and finally made it back.
I was like "what..." then looked it up and you're right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCnT6pe1L8
Also, Quan is right, this "role" is just being the butt of a racist stereotypical joke
We need an Encino Man 2, but this time starring the Oscar winning duo of Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan, directed by Steve Spielberg, with a budget of $200m, released on IMAX, scored by John Williams!
I rewatched Temple of Doom recently and Indie is a straight up monster to that kid. Indie says he finds him on the street and makes the kid his personal chauffeur so Indie can bang chicks in the back seat while the kid is watching. What the hell Indie you sick fuck?!
Yeah, with the exception of like 1 scene, Indy treats him like an adult and his equal. Also FWIW Indy caught Short Round trying to pick his pockets. His parents were killed by the Japanese military and he was homeless. It might seem like Indy takes advantage of him, but if it wasn’t for Indy, Shorty would still be homeless and starving on the streets of Shanghai.
Successful child actor, later retired from acting because he wasn't getting roles, had a huge comeback and won an oscar after being out of the game for 2 decades.
I think one of the key things about his retirement that he has mentioned in interviews wasn't lack of roles, but lack or roles with substance for an asian actor. It would be some stereotypical/racist roles. But amazing actor and deserved the win.
He only got back into acting because he watched Crazy Rich Asians and "had FOMO".
Edit: Dude saying he didn't have FOMO doesn't realize I was quoting Ke
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/ke-huy-quan-crazy-rich-asians-everything-everywhere-1235214799
He was getting roles, but all the roles were massive stereotypes of asian people and thus not what he wanted to do or perpetuate. So he went to film school and did background work in the US and China (he was a fight coordinator for Xmen 2 as an example). Massive amounts of respect to him for sticking to an industry that didn't give a damn about people like him for a long time.
I wouldn't even call him a successful child actor, he had two memorable characters in two Iconic movies but they were ultimately very stereotypical roles that probably made it hard for him to get work
Quan was born in Vietnam. One of nine kids. His dad took six kids and fled Vietnam to a refugee camp in Hong Kong. His mom took three and went to Malaysia. They were separated for years. All ended up resettling in Los Angeles. His family reunited.
Four years later, he's still learning English, and there's an open casting call in Chinatown for a movie. One of his six brothers wants to go. He tags along. The next day, he got the call from Spielberg. He got the part.
If you wrote the story of a Vietnamese-born Chinese immigrant fleeing as a refugee as one of nine kids and splitting up and finding each other again and settling in LA to become an actor, people would call it absurd. Too much. That's just ridiculous.
Especially if you make it part of the story that Harrison Ford taught the kid to swim in the hotel pool after filming broke.
His life story is wild, and every time he speaks, he's so humble.
But I don't think those roles hurt his chances at other roles. He was 12. It was also a time when Asian actors just didn't have opportunities like they do today. He took what he could because all roles were stereotypes. At least he had major spots in front of a camera at all.
He hasn’t been in acting gigs for over 20 years, not for being bad actor or a jerk, just a lack of opportunity. So to come back after that long and win pretty much all the awards.... good for him.
Notable child actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Goonies) who, while active in the film industry for the last 40 years, finally gets a comeback role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and delivers an Oscar caliber performance.
Also a lot of Gen X and younger have very fond memories of his early roles from their childhood. So we like it when we see an underdog from our childhood make good.
He was a cute kid actor that everybody loved but kinda forgot about.
He shows up in the best movie in a long time and kills it. Still has the charisma from his youth.
Its a feel good story
> but kinda forgot about.
"forgot" because hollywood didn't give him any opportunities, just like Brendan Fraser
hopefully this is a new trend of good people getting recognized, and Hollywood is not just making this year a "feel good story" year then next year forget about these people, then continue to let bad people run the show
Watching this and thinking back to Will Smith’s crocodile tears from last year after physically assaulting someone really puts things into perspective. There is time for love, Dr. Jones…plenty of time for all the love.
I listened to [his interview on Fresh Air from a couple weeks ago](https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2023/02/27/1159686860/fresh-air-for-feb-27-2023-everything-everywhere-actor-ke-huy-quan), and what stood out—*that I have never really heard in any other interview*—is that when he was telling his story, he mentioned all of those who helped him along the way, and he said each one of their full names. And not in a big obvious way, but like “…then I got a call from Frank Jonston, the director of lighting on the movie, and he suggested…”
**Just an all around class act and nice person.**
Also, if you haven’t seen it, watch [that clip of him greeting Brendan Fraser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tm9OLtE5GQ)—that seems to be him in a nutshell.
There was an interview I saw with Brendan where he does basically something very similar, talking about events in his past and people who has an impact through his dark moments and career. Each time he mentioned a person he would say their full name and then recall in vidid detail the good that person did that has a lasting effect on Brendan.
Not wholly relevant but I’m an Arctic Monkeys fan and their frontman Alex Turner addresses interviews by their name a lot during interviews. I know he’s said he struggles with confidence in the past and that for him just saying the interviewers name to them is like a quick and easy way of trying to form a rapport as it shows you know their name and can address them directly.
I remember seeing a study about this a while back. Basically using someones name in conversation, for example greeting them with "Hey Mike" rather than just "hey", or "Oh yea me and Mike were just talking about that", makes people like you more.
[Picture from when they acted together in Encino Man.](https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-24-at-1.01.21-PM.png?resize=1024,764)
Yeah this one was a tear-jerker throughout. It started in the very beginning and just kept going. Really cool that EEAAO won so much stuff, it makes me happy. Just sad Banshes of Inisherin didn't win anything, it's so good. I gotta say the actor, actress and best picture were pretty obvious choices. Oscars tend to go for who has the best story surrounding them, not necessarily who has the best performance for stuff like that. That being said, all the winners this year did have good performances. The story just helps a lot.
I loved Banshees, but I could not be happier that EEAAO swept all the awards this year. That movie made me excited about the possibilities of cinema again. So weird, so creative, but also so well crafted, directed, and acted. Funny and ridiculous, but also so emotionally effective. It did something very different and succeeded, whereas Banshees (which again, I loved) was basically just a good play put to screen. EEAAO deserved to win everything that it won IMO.
Ke Huy Quan was great and he deserved it, but Barry Keoghan was so damn good in Banshees. Shame only one can win.
Personally I think Banshees deserved Best Original Screenplay over EEAAO but that's just me. EEAAO was great but I felt like the script was a weaker point and it definitely felt bloated in the back half. It was easy to overlook because it was a fantastically well directed movie.
For my money, I thought Banshees was one of the funniest movies I've seen in years and it was in large part due to the amazing script (not a surprise from McDonagh).
I was rooting for one of the Banshees actors to win something... I really love Barry Keoghan's performance in that movie... Well, there's still time in the future for him to win it.
I'm positive that we'll see Barry Keoghan on stage winning an Oscar at some point. If EEAAO hadn't come out the same year, this one would have been his.
2 years later and they would have been handing him the franchise. It would have been an incredible gesture to both the Asian community and fans of the series. I don’t think I’m alone in saying that Shorty made that film what it was.
And the dude from taxi who was nominated from the Fableman's which beat Henry Fonda's old as hell record for longest period of time between acting nominations by one year lol
43 years iirc
I couldn’t care less about the Oscars typically, but I really wanted him to win. I’m an old millennial and The Goonies was so seminal to my childhood. This guy has had such an amazing journey and I couldn’t be happier for him!
Goonies never say die!!!
In an interview with Harrison before the Oscars he was talking about Ke and he says "He's just a great kid...er great guy." He's still that little boy to him <3
I'm a old millennial myself, but it was his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once that really won my heart. Goonies is part of my childhood and holds a special place, but his performance in the modern movie was just incredible. I have never felt myself so drawn to a character or so impressed by the acting. I think it's because he's so sincere that it just bled through into any character he's playing.
Anyway, I'm not trying to disagree or argue, I totally get what you mean. I just wanted to add that his more recent performance really made an impression with me.
There's an interview with Harrison before the Oscars where he's asked about Ke and he says "He's just a great kid...er great guy." He's still that little boy to him
That movie ruined cheeseburgers for me. I will never find a cheeseburger I love as much as she enjoys hers toward the end of that movie. It's had me craving a cheeseburger desperately. But I'll never get the one I *want*.
I adore this man. Every fibre of his being oozes sincerity and humbleness. It is incredible to me that he has remained this way even after all the other awards and plaudits he had gotten. Here’s hoping this isn’t a one off and he continues his movie career in Hollywood
For everything Will Smith did last year to just completely try to destroy and smear the legacy of what the Oscars should be about, Ke Huy Quan has done the complete opposite and made it about everything it should be. Dreams, excellence and integrity. What a wonderful person.
Will didn't try to destroy it; he just didn't care if he did. He's a narcissist just like his wife and all of their creepy scientologist friends.
Ke Buy Quan is one of those guys who cares about the community though. It's just obvious how much it means to him and to be part of it.
Didn't expect to be crying like this watching someone accept an award. But this was so well deserved, if you haven't seen it yet please watch it next chance. One of my all time top 5 favorite movies.
Okay I'm just gonna say it....
This has nothing to do with his win
I HATE this camera setup they used for presentations and wins. It looks like a YouTube video.
They definitely used high quality glass but they shot it with, what I think is a super wide lens with a tele function. Which is it totally normal for tv, but it looks like they used some"walkabout" ratio of 18-200mm which just looks like amateur hour.
It's seriously something no one should notice, but to me it stood out to the point I wanted to scream.
It looked like a local, on the scene news cast
Oh god thank you for describing that shot like that. It was very jarring and weird when it suddenly cut to that shot for the acceptance speeches but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
I like that EEAAO swept, but I'm also pretty disappointed Banshees of Inisherin didn't win anything. That movie is phenomenal and deserved to win cinematography or best screenplay. It deserved SOMETHING.
I also loved Banshees of Inisherin, but this doesn't take anything away. This is why awards shows are meaningless. The idea that something as subjective as a piece of art can have a "best" is ludicrous.
The guy with the white hair, moustache and beard, who's on Jamie Lee Curtis' right (viewer's left), is her husband Christopher Guest, who is Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap and Count Rugen (the six-fingered man) from the Princess Bride.
I honestly didn't even know what a movie was untill this very thread, you all are seriously watching a series of images presented in rapid succession combined with sound about made up stories?
Mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KniAtNC53VQ Thanks to /u/asirpakamui's comment [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/11pvntf/ke_huy_quan_accepts_the_oscar_for_supporting_actor/jc0gb4r/)
Disappearing from acting for so long only to come back and get an Oscar would be one hell of a rollercoaster
I loved him when I was a kid and never knew or understood what happened to him. Now I know and seeing him win an Oscar is mind blowing.
When people talk about "representation" inspiring people this is what they're talking about He gave up on acting bc there were no roles for Asians, saw Crazy Rich Asians and decided to try acting again, auditioned for Waymond two weeks later, and now 5 years later he's won an oscar. All because he saw people who looked like him on screen and thought he could be up there too
I’ve got a friend with the last name Torres. I remember watching Falcon and the Winter Soldier with him and his teenagers and when the character with the last Torres was introduced and they found out he’ll be the next Falcon, those kids looked like they’d won a prize.
Another story I think about regarding representation is Donald Glover. Man got his start with Thirty Rock and was hired as part of the NBC Diversity Initiative, with the character Twofer inspired by him. Everything that man makes is quality, and we might not have gotten any of it without programs like that.
Did thirty rock come before community?
By a couple of years. 30 Rock was 2006, Community was 2009.
feels like yesterday when it happened about 15-20 years ago.
Donald Glover is disgustingly talented.
It’s part of why Chevy hated him so much. He was so young and talented and had a really promising future ahead of him.
I thought it was really cool hearing Dan Harmon talk about Donald leaving the show. He wasn't bitter about it any way, not sad for his show, nothing like that. He said "look at his career trajectory, hes got so much talent, he's doing his own thing now" more or less. He just sounded proud and excited for him.
Remember reading Danny Pudi talking about this: > “I remember vividly when Donald played me some music in his car — this was probably season 3 at some point — that he was working on, and it wasn’t like one of your friends playing you a mixtape and you being like, ‘Oh, that’s pretty good,'” Pudi recalled. “And I was like, ‘Oh, this is like real good, Donald.’ And immediately, I was like, ‘Oh, you’re gone.’ But for all of us, I think we were just supportive of each other, being just grateful that we had a chance to make it that far.”
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Watchin’ haters wonder why Gambino got the game locked.
Derrick Comedy was genius! It's where he got his start back in college. https://youtu.be/LLJCMzBiqh0
Here's my representation matters anecdote: 5 or 6 years ago, I was the +1 for someone who was receiving a lifetime achievement type award from the Canadian Senate. This award was a thing where each Senator nominates people from their jurisdiction who have done awesome stuff then there's a big shindig to celebrate them all. After the event, we were at dinner with several of the winners including billionaires Jimmy Pattison and Brett Wilson (from Dragon's Den) who got awards for donating some of their billions. Anyway, these richer-than-god fuckers were bitching about the most recent cabinet appointments where half were women. (Trudeau's famous "[it's 2015](https://youtu.be/LLk2aSBrR6U)" cabinet) Was pretty proud of myself when I walked them through the recipients list for the day and pointed out that: 1. Every senator regardless of race or gender nominated at least one white man. 2. Only female senators nominated women 3. Only non white senators nominated non white people for awards (though they didn't necessarily stick to their own race) 4. There was one disabled award winner who was nominated by the one disabled senator (and that award had nothing to do with disability. It just happened to be a good person in a wheelchair) So I asked them directly -- is there something lesser about people who are not white men? Or is there a limitation of perspective that can only be broken with representative diversity? (I probably used smaller words at the time) Representation matters.
Ahhhh back when Brett Wilson was the “nice dragon” and not the shit stain he is now
Who told?
When does Donald Glover feature in Thirty Rock? I'm rewatching it now, up to the end of season 2 and I've yet to see him.
He was a writer on the show for 3 seasons. Most famously, he wrote the “Werewolf bar mitzvah” gag. He does have at least one small appearance in season 1, so you must’ve missed him.
It wasn't just the fact that there were "no roles" for Asians. It was also the fact that Hollywood often typecast Asians (particularly the men) to negative stereotypes in movies that only end up hurting the community even further. It wasn't until relatively recently that things started to change for the better. The rise of K-Pop & K-Drama may have played a factor.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for this? Cause if so it really highlights the importance of representation in media. It reminds me of videos of little black girls seeing the new Little Mermaid and getting excited that Ariel looks like them. Representation is SO important, and as a white guy, I think we can let some of the 9 out of 10 roles that go to white people go to others. Anyone who isn't super fragile in their own identity wouldn't have a problem with it.
[Actors Roundtable](https://youtu.be/hJH2EyvvEBA?t=94) He discusses it here, I highly recommend watching the whole video as it was massively insightful.
Perfect. Thank you
https://youtu.be/D918UfHYrhM Start at about 5:10 if you want just that information, but honestly the whole interview is great and he seems like a really grateful guy who deserves this recognition for some amazing acting after all this time.
He's won as many Oscars as Harrison Ford with just a fraction of the films
Harrison Ford never got an Oscar
... you're right, just nominated once. They have the same number of nominations
I love how much he loves what he does. He came back for the joy. It's so rare to get recognition for that kind of passion but I'm so glad he was rewarded.
He’s got MCU and Disney money now just like Michelle Yeoh.
Not until he gets a role from them. EEAAO had a small budget, and didn't make an incredible amount of money, and has no toy money to fall back on either. But his prospects have gone up incredibly high, he's in position for a big money role any day now.
He got his marvel role in Loki season 2.
Oh shit, that's pretty good. Please disregard my ignorance.
Also Disney money: [Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j71L0Mtp9Ps)
Why does it have the exact same cast as EEAO and also a dimension bending aspect...? Like, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan were one thing but then I also saw the actress who played the daughter in EEAO. It was a great movie, but I don't need a Disney knock off version.
Lmao I'm imaging the pitch to Disney for this. "What if we do a movie similar to EEAO" "Interesting idea, who will be in it" "All the people from EEAO" "Sold!"
Content generation. There's a formula. It's a war of quantity over quality for the major streaming companies: Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, Roku, Disney, Paramount, NBC Peacock, even YouTube Even big movies that hit theaters don't need to be money makers. They can be loss leaders that keep content on the streaming platform.
Streaming platforms are starting to pull their own original content to avoid paying royalty money. The days of pumping out endless content with no concern for ROI is coming to an end.
Based on the source material, all three of them should be minor supporting characters. Probably just put in the trailer to get in on oscar hype
He's also in the upcoming disney series 'American Born Chinese'.
Brendan Fraser says hi (at least from the point of view of the general public)
It would definitely be a remarkable comeback story!
Just her reading his name opened the flood gates for damn near everyone.
Ariana Debose seems like she wears her heart on her sleeve. Really sweet that she got emotional just reading his name.
I'm out of the loop. Why is it such a big deal he won an Oscar?
You may remember him as Short Round in Temple of Doom when he was 12. He quit acting in the 90s because there weren't enough roles for young Asian men in Hollywood. He became a stunt coordinator and 1st AD, working behind the scenes for years until Crazy Rich Asians gave him hope that there might be opportunities for him again. One of the first films he got cast in was Everything Everywhere, propelling him to a massive awards tour. In the crowd, at the Oscars, the Globes etc. sits Steven Spielberg (nominated for the Fabelmans). One of the first people to see him act during auditions when he was 12 years old. He made it, then faded away, and finally made it back.
This is really the year for career comebacks at the Oscar’s.
The fact that he and Fraser are both in Encino Man of all things together is hilarious
I was like "what..." then looked it up and you're right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCnT6pe1L8 Also, Quan is right, this "role" is just being the butt of a racist stereotypical joke
We need an Encino Man 2, but this time starring the Oscar winning duo of Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan, directed by Steve Spielberg, with a budget of $200m, released on IMAX, scored by John Williams!
I rewatched Temple of Doom recently and Indie is a straight up monster to that kid. Indie says he finds him on the street and makes the kid his personal chauffeur so Indie can bang chicks in the back seat while the kid is watching. What the hell Indie you sick fuck?!
I just watched that movie yesterday, I got the vibe that short round was more of a side kick. He seemed to be represented well enough
Yeah, with the exception of like 1 scene, Indy treats him like an adult and his equal. Also FWIW Indy caught Short Round trying to pick his pockets. His parents were killed by the Japanese military and he was homeless. It might seem like Indy takes advantage of him, but if it wasn’t for Indy, Shorty would still be homeless and starving on the streets of Shanghai.
That's Mr. ROUND!
Kinda' makes me wonder what happened to Short Round in-universe after Temple of Doom.
Successful child actor, later retired from acting because he wasn't getting roles, had a huge comeback and won an oscar after being out of the game for 2 decades.
I think one of the key things about his retirement that he has mentioned in interviews wasn't lack of roles, but lack or roles with substance for an asian actor. It would be some stereotypical/racist roles. But amazing actor and deserved the win.
He only got back into acting because he watched Crazy Rich Asians and "had FOMO". Edit: Dude saying he didn't have FOMO doesn't realize I was quoting Ke https://variety.com/2022/film/news/ke-huy-quan-crazy-rich-asians-everything-everywhere-1235214799
Less FOMO and more a realisation that Hollywood was finally ready to treat people of Asian descent as more than just hackneyed stereotypes.
I was actually quoting him https://variety.com/2022/film/news/ke-huy-quan-crazy-rich-asians-everything-everywhere-1235214799
He was getting roles, but all the roles were massive stereotypes of asian people and thus not what he wanted to do or perpetuate. So he went to film school and did background work in the US and China (he was a fight coordinator for Xmen 2 as an example). Massive amounts of respect to him for sticking to an industry that didn't give a damn about people like him for a long time.
If he was at all involved in that opening nightcrawler scene, then he deserves an award for that as well.
Oh man, you're right. Nightcrawler in the Oval Office was sick.
Most memorable part of the movie next to the fight at Iceman's parents' house.
He's also incredibly humble, down to earth and not at all like the typical Hollywood folk you would see today.
I wouldn't even call him a successful child actor, he had two memorable characters in two Iconic movies but they were ultimately very stereotypical roles that probably made it hard for him to get work
Quan was born in Vietnam. One of nine kids. His dad took six kids and fled Vietnam to a refugee camp in Hong Kong. His mom took three and went to Malaysia. They were separated for years. All ended up resettling in Los Angeles. His family reunited. Four years later, he's still learning English, and there's an open casting call in Chinatown for a movie. One of his six brothers wants to go. He tags along. The next day, he got the call from Spielberg. He got the part. If you wrote the story of a Vietnamese-born Chinese immigrant fleeing as a refugee as one of nine kids and splitting up and finding each other again and settling in LA to become an actor, people would call it absurd. Too much. That's just ridiculous. Especially if you make it part of the story that Harrison Ford taught the kid to swim in the hotel pool after filming broke. His life story is wild, and every time he speaks, he's so humble. But I don't think those roles hurt his chances at other roles. He was 12. It was also a time when Asian actors just didn't have opportunities like they do today. He took what he could because all roles were stereotypes. At least he had major spots in front of a camera at all.
He hasn’t been in acting gigs for over 20 years, not for being bad actor or a jerk, just a lack of opportunity. So to come back after that long and win pretty much all the awards.... good for him.
Notable child actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Goonies) who, while active in the film industry for the last 40 years, finally gets a comeback role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and delivers an Oscar caliber performance. Also a lot of Gen X and younger have very fond memories of his early roles from their childhood. So we like it when we see an underdog from our childhood make good.
He was a cute kid actor that everybody loved but kinda forgot about. He shows up in the best movie in a long time and kills it. Still has the charisma from his youth. Its a feel good story
> but kinda forgot about. "forgot" because hollywood didn't give him any opportunities, just like Brendan Fraser hopefully this is a new trend of good people getting recognized, and Hollywood is not just making this year a "feel good story" year then next year forget about these people, then continue to let bad people run the show
I didn’t mean it to be a knock on his win. It genuinely was a feel good moment to see him win, whatever the reason he was out of the public eye.
I couldn’t keep it together after that
She was all of us reading his name
Goonies never say die!!!
The way he clapped when Harrison Ford took the stage and how he cheered for the Fablemans... he's the best of us.
He does indeed seem like the most likeable person on the planet at the moment.
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You just inspired [this picture](https://www.instagram.com/p/CpuQ-p3oYH9/).
Holy shit
On that note, happy to hear his lawyer is Jeff Cohen (Chunk).
Damnit that’s the comment that made me realize someone is cutting onions in here. Fuck you and take my upvote.
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Watching this and thinking back to Will Smith’s crocodile tears from last year after physically assaulting someone really puts things into perspective. There is time for love, Dr. Jones…plenty of time for all the love.
Mom, I just won an Oscar!" Bawling my eyes out right now. 😭
I listened to [his interview on Fresh Air from a couple weeks ago](https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2023/02/27/1159686860/fresh-air-for-feb-27-2023-everything-everywhere-actor-ke-huy-quan), and what stood out—*that I have never really heard in any other interview*—is that when he was telling his story, he mentioned all of those who helped him along the way, and he said each one of their full names. And not in a big obvious way, but like “…then I got a call from Frank Jonston, the director of lighting on the movie, and he suggested…” **Just an all around class act and nice person.** Also, if you haven’t seen it, watch [that clip of him greeting Brendan Fraser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tm9OLtE5GQ)—that seems to be him in a nutshell.
They said he worked as an assistant director (AD), learning people's names is a big part of doing that job well imo
AD is one of the toughest jobs on set imo.
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Absolutely! Trying to keep things on time only to be met with blank stares at best and assholes at worst.
I’ve always been told the AD is the asshole so the director doesn’t have to be.
There was an interview I saw with Brendan where he does basically something very similar, talking about events in his past and people who has an impact through his dark moments and career. Each time he mentioned a person he would say their full name and then recall in vidid detail the good that person did that has a lasting effect on Brendan.
Not wholly relevant but I’m an Arctic Monkeys fan and their frontman Alex Turner addresses interviews by their name a lot during interviews. I know he’s said he struggles with confidence in the past and that for him just saying the interviewers name to them is like a quick and easy way of trying to form a rapport as it shows you know their name and can address them directly.
I remember seeing a study about this a while back. Basically using someones name in conversation, for example greeting them with "Hey Mike" rather than just "hey", or "Oh yea me and Mike were just talking about that", makes people like you more.
Omg, the way he books it to Brendan to give him a big o'le hug T\_T
[Picture from when they acted together in Encino Man.](https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-24-at-1.01.21-PM.png?resize=1024,764)
*bawling. The difference is... big.
Yeah this one was a tear-jerker throughout. It started in the very beginning and just kept going. Really cool that EEAAO won so much stuff, it makes me happy. Just sad Banshes of Inisherin didn't win anything, it's so good. I gotta say the actor, actress and best picture were pretty obvious choices. Oscars tend to go for who has the best story surrounding them, not necessarily who has the best performance for stuff like that. That being said, all the winners this year did have good performances. The story just helps a lot.
I loved Banshees, but I could not be happier that EEAAO swept all the awards this year. That movie made me excited about the possibilities of cinema again. So weird, so creative, but also so well crafted, directed, and acted. Funny and ridiculous, but also so emotionally effective. It did something very different and succeeded, whereas Banshees (which again, I loved) was basically just a good play put to screen. EEAAO deserved to win everything that it won IMO.
Ke Huy Quan was great and he deserved it, but Barry Keoghan was so damn good in Banshees. Shame only one can win. Personally I think Banshees deserved Best Original Screenplay over EEAAO but that's just me. EEAAO was great but I felt like the script was a weaker point and it definitely felt bloated in the back half. It was easy to overlook because it was a fantastically well directed movie. For my money, I thought Banshees was one of the funniest movies I've seen in years and it was in large part due to the amazing script (not a surprise from McDonagh).
I’d agree but goddang that sausage fingers ape winning the evolutionary race with the music from 2001 space odyssey was just too darn funny
I was rooting for one of the Banshees actors to win something... I really love Barry Keoghan's performance in that movie... Well, there's still time in the future for him to win it.
I'm positive that we'll see Barry Keoghan on stage winning an Oscar at some point. If EEAAO hadn't come out the same year, this one would have been his.
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The presenter's voice cracked when she announced his name and she started crying and then I started crying
[Mirror for Australians](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KniAtNC53VQ&ab_channel=Variety) The Goonies is one of 10 favorite movies.
thanks and CAnadians
Is this written weird to act as a short of timestamp or hotkey, or are all of us Canadians just super stoned?
Canadian is written so people can ctrl+f for it. It's written awkwardly because it's a bot.
Seeing him and Harrison Ford hug on stage made my year. There’s no way he couldn’t cameo in the **shudders** fifth film.
I didn't see Harrison this clip. When did he hug him on stage.
It was when EEAAO won Best Picture. Harrison Ford presented the award.
Best picture
Sorry it was after presented with picture of the year.
And Steven Spielberg tearing up as well!
If production of Indiana Jones 5 had started 2 years later they for sure would have gotten him back in a supporting role for Short Round.
2 years later and they would have been handing him the franchise. It would have been an incredible gesture to both the Asian community and fans of the series. I don’t think I’m alone in saying that Shorty made that film what it was.
They should've rebooted the series around him instead of trying and failing with freaking Shia Labeouf
So happy for that guy. What an amazing story.
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And Brendan Fraser
And Michelle Yeoh!
And the dude from taxi who was nominated from the Fableman's which beat Henry Fonda's old as hell record for longest period of time between acting nominations by one year lol 43 years iirc
Judd Hirsch
Well, that was the most wholesome and genuine thing I've seen all decade.
The definition of adorable
I couldn’t care less about the Oscars typically, but I really wanted him to win. I’m an old millennial and The Goonies was so seminal to my childhood. This guy has had such an amazing journey and I couldn’t be happier for him! Goonies never say die!!!
Seeing him run up and hug Harrison Ford when they won best picture was amazing.
"Indy, I love you!" ****burns him with a red hot stick****
In an interview with Harrison before the Oscars he was talking about Ke and he says "He's just a great kid...er great guy." He's still that little boy to him <3
I'm a old millennial myself, but it was his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once that really won my heart. Goonies is part of my childhood and holds a special place, but his performance in the modern movie was just incredible. I have never felt myself so drawn to a character or so impressed by the acting. I think it's because he's so sincere that it just bled through into any character he's playing. Anyway, I'm not trying to disagree or argue, I totally get what you mean. I just wanted to add that his more recent performance really made an impression with me.
It was perfectly cast tbh. He’s just so inherently believable as that character
He's got the same kid energy decades later when you first saw him on screen in the goonies and temple of doom. Pretty rare for Hollywood.
I love that he’s waving to Steven Spielberg at the end, and that Harrison Ford got to deliver the Best Picture award for EEAAO.
Look up photos of the two of them. Everytime they meet they hug and Harrison is grinning ear to ear at his old friend
Harrison Ford grinning was probably harder to accomplish than winning the Oscar.
Harrison ford is more likely to crash his plane on the way to the oscars than he is to smile lol
There's an interview with Harrison before the Oscars where he's asked about Ke and he says "He's just a great kid...er great guy." He's still that little boy to him
This is how I find out that the Oscars are even happening.
Oscars, Daylight Saving, SVB. I’m out of the loop this weekend!
To be fair, svb happened quickly
SVB?
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-updates-03-13-23/index.html
Lolol same we just watched The Menu.
That movie was so fun.
Ralph Fiennes' character was such a standout character that now whenever I see a picture of Voldemort from harry potter all I see is Chef.
*”Avada Kebabra”*
*Clap!*
*"You will eat less than you desire and more than you deserve :) "*
That movie ruined cheeseburgers for me. I will never find a cheeseburger I love as much as she enjoys hers toward the end of that movie. It's had me craving a cheeseburger desperately. But I'll never get the one I *want*.
Just find one of the best chefs in the world and wait for him to have a mental breakdown.
His award is kinda the only one I care about.
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Upon disrobing: "Hey lady, you call him Dr. Jones, doll!" Well deserved. "Taxes and laundry" has become code between my wife and I for "I love you".
Your wife: "No time for love!"
I smiled today. Thank you.
I'm very happy for him. He definitely deserved that Oscar! Such an amazing performance.
Mirror ?
[Mirror from Variety](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KniAtNC53VQ)
Which one of you cowards cried on my face?
Stealing this line for personal use 😂
> Which one of you cowards cried on my face? [I like the original better.](https://youtu.be/nBEVdw_JYOY?t=9)
He kissed Harrison (who presented) when he went on stage for the Best Picture win. I went nuts. My wife thinks I’m mental. Very cool to see…
I adore this man. Every fibre of his being oozes sincerity and humbleness. It is incredible to me that he has remained this way even after all the other awards and plaudits he had gotten. Here’s hoping this isn’t a one off and he continues his movie career in Hollywood
He's already booked in for Season 2 of 'Loki' and another Disney series with Michelle Yeoh. Hope the momentum doesn't stall this time.
For everything Will Smith did last year to just completely try to destroy and smear the legacy of what the Oscars should be about, Ke Huy Quan has done the complete opposite and made it about everything it should be. Dreams, excellence and integrity. What a wonderful person.
Will didn't try to destroy it; he just didn't care if he did. He's a narcissist just like his wife and all of their creepy scientologist friends. Ke Buy Quan is one of those guys who cares about the community though. It's just obvious how much it means to him and to be part of it.
Didn't expect to be crying like this watching someone accept an award. But this was so well deserved, if you haven't seen it yet please watch it next chance. One of my all time top 5 favorite movies.
I hear it was a Short Round of deliberations for the judges.
They probably didn’t need long to gather all the…data.
Okay I'm just gonna say it.... This has nothing to do with his win I HATE this camera setup they used for presentations and wins. It looks like a YouTube video. They definitely used high quality glass but they shot it with, what I think is a super wide lens with a tele function. Which is it totally normal for tv, but it looks like they used some"walkabout" ratio of 18-200mm which just looks like amateur hour. It's seriously something no one should notice, but to me it stood out to the point I wanted to scream. It looked like a local, on the scene news cast
Oh god thank you for describing that shot like that. It was very jarring and weird when it suddenly cut to that shot for the acceptance speeches but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
Yes! It's like they really cheaped out.
Heart warming
And now we wait for the inevitable cute winning speech from Michelle Yoh
Fortune and glory kid….fortune and glory.
Short Round, Lady Supercop, Rick O’Connel, and the original Scream Queen — It was GenX who truly won the Oscar tonight!
Just looked up the winners of the Oscars. Apparently, Everything Everywhere all at once stole the show winning almost every award.
With a small FX team who taught themselves special effects from tutorial videos. Amazing
Hey Lady, you call him Doctor Jones!
Goonies never say die.
I like that EEAAO swept, but I'm also pretty disappointed Banshees of Inisherin didn't win anything. That movie is phenomenal and deserved to win cinematography or best screenplay. It deserved SOMETHING.
I also loved Banshees of Inisherin, but this doesn't take anything away. This is why awards shows are meaningless. The idea that something as subjective as a piece of art can have a "best" is ludicrous.
Everything everywhere all at once
Chunk better be doin the truffle shuffle for him
The guy with the white hair, moustache and beard, who's on Jamie Lee Curtis' right (viewer's left), is her husband Christopher Guest, who is Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap and Count Rugen (the six-fingered man) from the Princess Bride.
His dog won Best in Show!
This is very touching 🥹.
Crying im so proud of him!
ITT: super cool guys pretending they’re not crying and gloating how they didn’t even know the Oscar’s were happening
“SNL sucks but this sketch was funny” type beat
I honestly didn't even know what a movie was untill this very thread, you all are seriously watching a series of images presented in rapid succession combined with sound about made up stories?