Ke Huy Quan is back on the big screen in Everything Everywhere All At Once, after a 20 year hiatus from acting.
If the 51-year-old actor looks familiar, that’s because you probably recognize him from The Goonies and even Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. “Never in my wildest imagination did I think I would end up being an actor,” Ke Huy shared with People in their latest issue. “But I fell in love with it.
That movie changed my life and my entire family’s life.” Click inside to see why Ke Huy took a break from acting in the first place… Ke Huy explained that after landing his first two major auditions for movies - Indiana Jones and The Goonies – things fizzled out after that. “[It made me think] that I was going to have this amazing career,” he shared, before adding that there were few parts for Asian actors at that time. Ke Huy says “It was tough.
I was waiting for the phone to ring, and it rarely did.” Then, he decided in the early 2000s, he made the “very difficult decision” to step away from acting, and head to film school at USC.
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