Description
Ke Huy Quan tells the story of his journey from Vietnamese refugee to 1980s child star and his later return to acting.
Ke Huy Quan’s Hollywood adventure began when he was twelve years old, a mere five years after his family escaped Communist Northern Vietnam and settled down to a relatively peaceful life in L.A.’s Chinatown. After attending an open call audition on a whim, he was unexpectedly swept up in the wild world of filmmaking: learning to swim from Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, receiving trucks full of toys from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for his birthday, meeting Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, and making lifelong friends on the set of The Goonies.
There appeared to be no limit to Ke’s rise, but just a few years later the roles had dried up and it seemed like Hollywood no longer had a place for him. He eventually left acting to work odd jobs behind the scenes for directors like Wong Kar Wai. His confidence was badly shaken, but his love of performing never abated. Decades later, when he was forty-nine, he stepped back in front of the camera to star in a strange little indie film called Everything Everywhere All at Once.
A moving, compulsively readable memoir and a powerful testament to never giving up on your dreams. A love letter to the movies and the people that shaped him.
Endorsements
Ke Huy Quan is an Oscar-winning star of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
His performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once won an Oscar.