The Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor has a rather special story. Even outside the cinema.
Ke Huy Quan He carried out the prediction and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 95th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood for his role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“My mother is watching this at home. Mom, I have an Oscar. (…) I thought this only happened in movies, but it happened to me ”, A Vietnamese interpreter expressed through tears after receiving a statuette from Troy Kotsur, the winner of this category last year.
Huy Quan was battling Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) in this section. Brian Tyree Henry (“Causeway”) and Judd Hirsch (“Favermans”).
His story is very special because he was born in South Vietnam and was forced to flee with his family to the United States, the country he arrived in 1978.
Only a year later, it was discovered by a director in California. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Destiny The movie where he finally played Tapon.
“Mom, I just won an Oscar…thank you for coming back.”
KE HUY QUAN in his speech upon winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. # Oscar pic.twitter.com/uV8Uc6P1tb
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later he goonies, However, the transition into puberty has left him out of his place in the industry. On top of that, there were no roles for Asians. That’s how he resigned in 1993.
But in 2018 his great comeback happened on tape crazy rich asians, A big hit in America and Asia.
He then joined the cast of all, everywhere, at once, as Waymond Wang Exactly what propelled him to his first Oscar. Emotions were clear.
Source: Biobiochile