All awards season long, Ke Huy Quan, who plays the sweet but ignored husband of a laundromat owner in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” has been winning fans with his heartfelt story: He found early success as a child star in the 1980s. You may remember him as Short Round in Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”; he was also in “The Goonies.” But after a long dry spell when he couldn’t even land a three-line role, he turned to stunt choreography instead. When he saw the success of “Crazy Rich Asians,” he decided to give acting another try, and the first audition he went on led to “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” directed by the team of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
Now 51, he thanked the directors who helped him along the way in his emotional acceptance speech for the Golden Globe for best supporting actor:
Wow. Thank you, thank you so much. I was raised to never forget where I came from, and to always remember who gave me my first opportunity. I am so happy to see Steven Spielberg here tonight. Steven, thank you!
When I started my career as a child actor in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” I felt so very lucky to have been chosen. As I grew older, I started to wonder if that was it, if that was just luck. For so many years, I was afraid I had nothing more to offer. No matter what I did, I would never surpass what I achieved as a kid.
Thankfully more than 30 years later, two guys thought of me. They remembered that kid, and they gave me an opportunity to try again. Everything that has happened since has been unbelievable. Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, thank you so, so much. You have given me more than I could have ever hoped.
Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for this incredible honor. Thank you to A24, thank you to our incredible producer, Jonathan Wong, thank you to Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu and our entire family. And last but not least, I want to thank the most important person in my life, the one person that has never stopped believing in me. My wife, I love you with all my heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Source: Movies - nytimes.com
