Ke Huy Quan, who played 11-year-old Harrison Ford’s companion in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, has grown up 11 and is now ready to be an Academy Award nominee.
Quan, 51, has received tantalizing reviews for his role as Waymond Wang, the goofy, cheerful husband in Daniels’ eccentric, polygon comedy Everything Everywhere at Once. Like previous hard-working actors who took big Oscar breaks later in their careers—Paul Rassy for “Sound of Metal” (2020) and Troy Koetsur for “CODA” (2021) – Quan’s comeback story is one of the season’s stories. Shining points, highlights, highlights.
He is also known for playing Data in “The Goonies” (1985), and quit acting in the late 1990s. Now, the Vietnamese-born actor’s professional resurgence has, like his A24 counterpart, Brendan Fraser (“Whale”), a wave of support.
With no major candidate to support the budding actor yet, Quan’s name has been widely discussed. He even got the name Gotham in October. As the actor books more roles — he’ll appear in “The Electric State” and in Marvel’s “Loki” — Quan’s rising appearance in the business world will have a beneficial effect on his Oscar campaign.
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Everything Everywhere Every Time, Ke Huy Quan, 2022. ph: Allyson Riggs / © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
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The Best Supporting Actor has become the place to reward veteran actors. Old-fashioned actors like Alan Arkin (“Little Miss Sunshine,” 2006) and Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” 2015) found a path to recognition even when all the signs were pointing to their fellow nominees. Quan will share the veteran narrative with Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) and Judd Hirsch (“The Fabelmans”), both of whom have decades of love piling up in Hollywood. That could be an obstacle for him down the road.
In addition to Quan’s inspiring comeback, his nomination would mark a historic achievement: he would be only the tenth Asian actor to be honored as a supporting actor. Only one of these nominees won – Haing S. Ngor for “The Killing Fields” (1984).
Michelle Yeoh, who plays Wang’s wife, Evelyn, is also on the fast track to choosing her first name. The lead actress’s gesture would make her the second Asian woman to be nominated in this category, after Merle Oberon for The Dark Angel (1935). (The Asian ethnicity of Oberon’s part was not known until after her death in 1979.)
Although Daniels’ drama is beloved by critics, its bizarre premise and bizarre scenes involving dildos and hot dogs may make conservative members of the academy pause. The campaign should ensure that Yeoh and Quan are presented as an all-encompassing deal: It’s impossible to sympathize with Evelyn’s journey without Waymond’s critical beats, especially in the Wong Kar Wai universe that serves up the film’s best line — “In another life, I’d have really loved just washing clothes and taxes with you.” “.
Voters will surely find life irresistible, too.
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