If you grew up in the '80s you may remember Ke Huy Quan, or Jonathan Ke Quan. He starred in such classics as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. After two decades in Hollywood Quan went behind the scenes, but Crazy Rich Asians finally got him to consider returning to acting – and he makes his latest bow in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Speaking during IGN Fan Fest, Quan shared that, as he got older, “opportunities for an Asian actor at that time were not that many and that’s just the truth of it.” While waiting for a new role, Quan enrolled in film school to continue his craft.
However, Quan had to wait another 20 years before being inspired to return to acting. “It wasn’t until 2018, a little movie from Warner Bros. came out called Crazy Rich Asians. I saw that movie and it hit me on so many levels and I was really emotional about and the idea of returning to acting started percolating in my head.”
This led Quan to ask an acting agent friend to represent him and, two weeks after finally getting an agent after decades without one, Quan got a call about Everything Everywhere All At Once. After two auditions and weeks without hearing anything, Quan got the role for his big-screen return.
The excitingly bizarre-looking Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Michelle Yeoh, a laundromat owner in one universe, who travels the multiverse and encounters different versions of herself, and characters played by Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis, all of whom spoke with IGN about the movie.
“The thing is, in short, how do I explain this movie? I did it and I still don’t know what it’s about” Yeoh tells IGN. Ultimately Yeoh describes the movie as doing taxes and keeping a family together but folks will have to watch the movie to figure things out. Family is optimal here according to Hsu, as this tether is one of the few constants across the multiverse.
The multiverse it turns out is a big topic for filmmakers in 2022. Alongside Everything Everywhere All At Once, Marvel is venturing into the multiverse themselves having done so in Spider-Man: No Way Home and the upcoming Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.
For more multiverse goodness, check out IGN Fan Fest and our full schedule of events.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.
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Speaking during IGN Fan Fest, Quan shared that, as he got older, “opportunities for an Asian actor at that time were not that many and that’s just the truth of it.” While waiting for a new role, Quan enrolled in film school to continue his craft.
However, Quan had to wait another 20 years before being inspired to return to acting. “It wasn’t until 2018, a little movie from Warner Bros. came out called Crazy Rich Asians. I saw that movie and it hit me on so many levels and I was really emotional about and the idea of returning to acting started percolating in my head.”
This led Quan to ask an acting agent friend to represent him and, two weeks after finally getting an agent after decades without one, Quan got a call about Everything Everywhere All At Once. After two auditions and weeks without hearing anything, Quan got the role for his big-screen return.
The excitingly bizarre-looking Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Michelle Yeoh, a laundromat owner in one universe, who travels the multiverse and encounters different versions of herself, and characters played by Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis, all of whom spoke with IGN about the movie.
“The thing is, in short, how do I explain this movie? I did it and I still don’t know what it’s about” Yeoh tells IGN. Ultimately Yeoh describes the movie as doing taxes and keeping a family together but folks will have to watch the movie to figure things out. Family is optimal here according to Hsu, as this tether is one of the few constants across the multiverse.
The multiverse it turns out is a big topic for filmmakers in 2022. Alongside Everything Everywhere All At Once, Marvel is venturing into the multiverse themselves having done so in Spider-Man: No Way Home and the upcoming Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.
For more multiverse goodness, check out IGN Fan Fest and our full schedule of events.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.
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