Everything Everywhere All at Once” — his first major role in 30 years.“Everything is still so fresh in my mind,” he told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “And that’s why moving forward I’m still really scared.“Even though I just won an Oscar, I’m still really fearful of what tomorrow brings,” he shared.Quan, an immigrant from Vietnam, had his first acting role in the Harrison Ford-starring movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” when he was just 12 years old.
The next summer, he played Data in the movie “The Goonies” — but that was it.Until now.“I had a conversation with my agent, and I said, ‘I’m so worried that this is only a one-time thing,'” Quan told Variety about his recent successes. “I’ve been down this road before, and I’m so afraid that history is going to repeat itself,” he added. “I said, ‘Please, whatever you do, please make sure that does not happen.'”After Quan had trouble finding acting roles earlier in his career, he segued into film production.
During his acceptance speech at the Oscars, he was overcome with emotion and sobbed onstage. He described his time in a refugee camp when he went to Hong Kong from Vietnam with his father and five of Quan’s siblings, according to The Guardian.
His mom and three other siblings, meanwhile, went to Malaysia, which was their second time trying to leave the country — this time successful — and they all emigrated to the United States one year later, in 1979. “They say stories like this only happen in the movies,” Quan said during his acceptance speech. “I cannot believe it is happening to me.
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