Ke Huy Quan just won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2023 Oscars – but that doesn’t mean he’s set in Hollywood.
04.03.2023 - 05:37 / justjared.com
Ke Huy Quan is opening up about the dilemmas over health insurance in the entertainment industry.
Just after he finished filming Everything Everywhere All At Once, the recent SAG Award winner revealed that he lost his health insurance completely.
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During his recent appearance on The Late Late Show, Ke Huy recalled how during the pandemic, he was being good and “at home trying to stay safe like everybody.”
However, because of that decision, no other acting offers were coming in since his comeback role in Everything Everywhere was being held for release for so long.
“I was about to lose my health insurance,” he revealed. “So, I called my agent and I said, ‘Can you please get me anything? It doesn’t matter, I just need one job to make the minimum requirement so I can qualify for health insurance the following year.’ And I could not get one single job. Sure enough, 2021 came and went [and I] lost my health insurance.”
After the devastating blow, Ke Huy prayed that Everything Everywhere All at Once would at least be good, and he called a producer on the film to ask just that.
“‘Can you please tell me one thing? Am I good in the movie?’” he said he asked the producer, who then told him to “‘Just be patient. You just wait.’ The movie came out in March of last year and my life has changed.”
Ke Huy has since been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the movie.
Ke Huy Quan just won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2023 Oscars – but that doesn’t mean he’s set in Hollywood.
Best Picture Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once and superhero series The Boys topped the list of winners for the third annual Critics Choice Super Awards.
Ke Huy Quan was on a mission. He’d just been named best supporting actor for his performance as Waymond Wang, the goofy husband of a laundromat owner in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and he wanted to experience the moment with Steven Spielberg. Spielberg, you see, was the filmmaker who cast him in his breakout role in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” when Quan was 12 years old. So during a commercial break in the Academy Awards telecast, Quan, 51, went over to where Spielberg was sitting with his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, whom Quan hadn’t seen since they co-starred in “Temple of Doom” four decades earlier. After hugs all around, Spielberg put his hands on Quan’s shoulders and said, “You are now an Oscar-winning actor.”
The soft pink and beige background on the red carpet of this year’s Oscars ceremony echoed the generally much more mellow tone of the evening than we have been used to in the recent past. If last year’s event was one of the most disjointed and chaotic in years, the 2023 evening hosted by Jimmy Kimmel was reassuringly smooth sailing, starting with a (for my money) genuinely funny and charming opening set of jokes.
The Oscars 2023 returned to our screens on Sunday night, celebrating the very best talent in film, design and sound.
In at least one universe, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a Best Picture winner!
Katie Reul editor Winning best picture at the Academy Awards, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” capped off a ground-breaking awards season and became the most-awarded best picture winner since 2008’s “Slumdog Millionaire.” “Everything Everywhere” took home seven Oscars on Sunday night, including best picture, director, original screenplay, lead actress, supporting actress, supporting actor and editing. At the 2009 Oscars, Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” scored eight awards, including best picture, director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, score, original song and sound mixing. Before “Everything Everywhere,” the closest a best picture winner has gotten to topping that number was the 2010 ceremony, when “The Hurt Locker” won six Oscars.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the big winner of the night!
is a Best Picture winner!The lauded absurdist film took home the top honor at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, following wins earlier in the night for Jamie Lee Curtis's Best Supporting Actress, Ke Huy Quan's Best Supporting Actor, Michelle Yeoh's Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, the Daniels' Best Director and Best Editing. «There is no movie without our brilliant and big-hearted cast and crew,» producer Jonathan Wang said. «I never thought I would get to say this, so I say this with one voice: Thank you to the Academy.» Wang went on to dedicate the win to his wife, quoting one of his film's most famous lines, «In another life, I would have really liked doing laundry and taxes with you.» The film now holds the most Oscars of all time, and is the first film in over three decades to win three acting Academy Awards. The Daniels gave similarly moving speeches when accepting Best Director. «Our fellow nominees, our nominees in this category, you guys are our heroes,» Daniel Scheinert said.
Must-see moments! The stars were shining bright in Hollywood as celebrity A-listers descended upon the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12 — and the fun continued all night long.
Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the genre-bending sci-fi film has achieved a feat that has only happened twice before in Oscars history and for the first time in 46 years. Alongside supporting cast members Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, Yeoh has made “Everything Everywhere” the third film in history to win three acting Oscars.
Everything Everywhere All At Once‘s Paul Rogers was clearly overwhelmed following the film’s Oscar win for Film Editing. “This is too much, wow, this is my second film y’all, this is crazy.” He went on to thank his wife, “the most incredible woman in the room,” his family, and cast.
The grand prize. Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12.
Oscars red carpet.Hong, 94, walked the champagne-colored carpet wearing a bowtie with googly eyes — an ode to the movie.He portrays Gong Gong in the film, the father of Michelle Yeoh’s character, Evelyn Quan Wang.Googly eyes play a big role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — and might have even caused a shortage at Michaels arts stores.Yeoh’s character initially is annoyed at her husband’s obsession with sticking googly eyes everywhere and rejects all his attempts to bring joy and humor into their lives.But Evelyn ends up growing an appreciation toward them, putting one on her forehead during the film’s climactic fight scene.The googly eyes represent existentialism and the human desire to create meaning in their lives.“Everything Everywhere All At Once” has been cleaning up in the 2023 awards season, with 11 Oscar nominations and winning two Golden Globe Awards.
A comeback king. Ke Huy Quan has taken Hollywood by storm with his performance as Waymond Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Class…put your books away, and clear your desks. It’s now time for your Oscars test. We’ve watched all the movies and seen all the precursor ceremonies that have provided all the necessary hints and clues on which films will emerge victorious at the 95th annual Academy Awards on March 12.
Guardian in a recent profile about his decision to never retire from Hollywood. “I’ve waited all these years to do projects and now people are going to back me.”The “Everything Everywhere All at Once” icon began his film career in the 1950s, and his first big movie was “Soldier of Fortune” with Clark Gable.
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” continued its awards sweep at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on its path to the Oscars next weekend. The multiverse-hopping adventure collected awards for best picture, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, screenplay and editing.
The stars of Everything Everywhere All at Once are hitting the red carpet!
Before “Everything Everywhere All at Once” hit the big screen last year, bringing nothing but praise and success to Ke Huy Quan and his co-stars, the actor was faced with a few setbacks.