Actor Ke Huy Quan has finally received a major award after four decades of acting. The 51-year-old actor won Best Supporting Actor at the Critics Choice Awards, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, and Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, following his role as Waymond Qang in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Quan's rise to fame began when he played the sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at the age of 12.
He also appeared in The Goonies, but opportunities for the Vietnamese-born actor dried up in the late 1980s and 1990s. Quan enrolled in the University of Southern California's film program in the late 1990s, worked as a fight choreographer on X-Men, and served as Wong Kar Wai's assistant director on his science fiction romance 2046. Quan began pursuing projects again after the success of Crazy Rich Asians and starred in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which also starred Michelle Yeoh. However, Quan faced financial difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic and lost his health insurance after a year of not booking a new acting job.
He called his agent to get any job that could qualify him for health insurance, but he could not get one single job. Quan contacted a producer from Everything Everywhere All At Once to ask about his performance, and the producer told him to wait. Quan's life changed after the movie came out in March of last year. In September, Quan reunited with Harrison Ford for the first time in 38 years to promote their new projects in California. Quan shared two sweet photos of the actors catching up, both showing him wrapping his arms around the older screen star. The two even matched each other with their jeans and grey blazers. Ford praised Quan's work as he began receiving critical acclaim for his role in Everything Everywhere All At Once.