After making a splash in Hollywood as a kid, actor Ke Huy Quan gave up on the profession. He makes his return in 'Everything Everywhere All At Once,' as the husband of the film's protagonist.
Years 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.
The film stars Michelle Yeoh as a Chinese-American laundromat owner, whose quest to straighten out her taxes keeps getting interrupted by calls to save not just one universe but multiple.Scheinert and Kwan were searching for an actor to play Waymond, Yeoh’s husband – who, like Yeoh’s character, would have several different incarnations in the film’s multiple universes. But they were having trouble finding someone who met all the requirements.
Kwan did the math. He realized Quan might be just the right age for the role and asked the casting director to bring Quan in for an audition. Among his biggest challenges? A martial arts sequence that involves the quintessential ‘80s accessory: the fanny pack.
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