On Sunday night, actor Ke Huy Quan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
The Vietnamese-born actor, best known for playing Data in “The Goonies” and Short Round in 1985’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” in 1989, disappeared from Hollywood after his success as a child star.
Now that he’s won an Oscar and several awards for his role in the 2023 Best Picture Oscar winner, the 51-year-old actor worries that his comeback is “just a one-off.”
Ke Huy Quan Worries His Acting Career May Be Stalling After ‘Everything Everywhere At Once’ Wins Oscar
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Although it seems like his career has nowhere to go but up, Ke Huy Quan knows how quickly success can come and go, especially in Hollywood. Speaking to Variety after her Oscar win (via PEOPLE), the 51-year-old star admitted that she’s “terrified” that she won’t be offered more acting roles.
“Everything is still fresh in my mind. And that’s why to move forward, I’m still very scared,” he said. “Even though I just won an Oscar. I am still very afraid of what tomorrow will bring. I had a conversation with my agent, and I said, ‘I’m really worried that this is a one-off.’”
“I have been down this road before and I am very afraid that history will repeat itself,” he added. “I said ‘please, whatever you do, please make sure that doesn’t happen.'” After his success in “The Goonies” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” Quan found himself able to find work as an actor and left Hollywood to pursuing other projects before he stepped back in front of the camera again.
Cate Blanchett Gives New Oscar Winner Some Heartfelt Advice
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Oscar nominee “Tár” Cate Blanchett, 53, met Ke Huy Quan earlier this year after an event this awards season. The two-time Oscar winner told Quan to “just follow your heart” after Quan expressed concern that his career might fail after the success of “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
“And he said, ‘Just go with your heart and be irresponsible: Don’t worry about what other people think,’ ” Quan recalled “’Choose something you believe in, choose something you love, and everything will work out.’ “
Cate Blanchett won the Best Actress Oscar, along with Andrea Riseborough for “To Leslie,” Michelle Williams for “The Fablemans” and Ana de Armas for “Blonde.” They all lost to Quan’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once” actress, Michelle Yeoh, 60.
Ke Huy Quan Says He Tried ‘American Sounding Names’ To Get More Roles
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After winning the big Oscar, Quan told reporters in the press room why he got “so emotional” after he heard Ariana DeBose’s performance call his name for Best Supporting Actor.
“When I started as a child, it was my birth name, Ke Huy Quan. And I remember when it got really hard, my manager told me that ‘maybe, you know, it’s easier if you have an American-sounding name,’ and I was so desperate for a job that I would do anything,” he told reporters on the night Sunday.
Quan has used the name Jonathan Ke Quan and only Jonathan Quan at several points in his career to try to get him new roles. When she decided to return to acting in 2020, she told reporters that “the first thing I wanted to do was go back to my birth name.”
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“Tonight to see Ariana open the envelope and say ‘To Huy Quan,’ that was a very special moment for me,” he added. “And then immediately I was very emotional.”
During his Oscar speech on Sunday night, Quan recalled, “My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage.”
“They say stories like this only happen in movies. I can’t believe it happened to me. This is the American dream!” he continued. “A dream is something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on my dream. To all of you out there: Please keep your dreams alive!”
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
