Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on March 1, 2023. Find that audioYears before he acted in “The Goonies” and “Indiana Jones,” and decades before he would play a lead role in the hit movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Ke Huy Quan fled the chaos of the Vietnam war as a child.
“I was giving him instructions behind the camera,” Quan says. “And the casting director saw me and says, ‘Hey Ke, do you want to give it a try?’ ” So he went to film school. As a second degree black belt in Taekwondo, he found work as an assistant fight choreographer and assistant director on both Hollywood and Hong Kong films. But he’d pretty much given up on acting.
In a stroke of good luck, that was the same moment when the writing-directing team of Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan — self-styled “The Daniels” — were putting together “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Now, Quan is nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his portrayal of Waymond Wong.
“My brain just kind of lit up,” Kwan says. “I wondered, ‘Where is that person now? Where is that person who was so formative to my childhood?’ ” “I hired an acting coach, a dialogue coach, a voice coach, because I wanted them to sound different,” he said. “And then I hired a body movement coach because it was really important to me that the audience can distinguish which version of Waymond they’re watching, just based on how he sits, how he walks, how he moves and how he talks.”
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