How Michelle Yeoh Helped BringIndiana JonesBreakout Ke Huy Quan Back to the Big Screen

If you have n’t seen the trailer forEverything Everywhere All at Once , you ’re neglect out on probably the best damn teaser for an upcoming flick , truly . The mind - melting multiverse family dramedy from directing duo Daniels ( Swiss Army Man ) stars the legendaryMichelle Yeohas Evelyn , a Chinese immigrant thrust into a sci - fi adventure across all the lives she could have led and how they ’re connected in the fight of goodness vs. evil . If that ’s not enough for a contract - me - up - right - heckin - now , it should be mark that her carbon monoxide gas - stars includeJamie Lee Curtis , James Hong , and Ke Huy Quan .

Yes , Data fromThe Gooniesand Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Ke Huy Quan , who ’d given up acting due to the lack of chance available for Asian American performers … until now . Speaking toEntertainment Weekly , Quan tattle about why the present moment felt right for his return , and how the success of Crazy Rich Asians , which just so happens to asterisk Michelle Yeoh , inspired him to call an agent friend and see about reviving his life history . “ I really credit that movie . It ’s such a seminal movie for me . I felt , oh my God , that ’s what I desire to do … ”

And now he ’s starring opposite Yeoh . “ He stepped out of not being in a movie for about two decades and then coming back to play my husband , ” she said to EW . “ I was so glad when he was retch because he brought to the character that unassuming aristocratic married man and then of a sudden he turns into this James Bond - same character – or like Bruce Lee . Being with him was so much fun . ”

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From what we ’ve project of his performance in the preview , his serious-mindedness as a have a go at it husband quick flipping to action genius with the weaponization of a fanny gang has us game for more . “ I mean , Michelle is the reason why I [ was ] even consider about arrive back into acting in the first situation . ” Quan said of flexing those chop he gained from a stunt coordinator life history working alongside Corey Yuen on films like hug drug - homo and The One .

Daniel Kwan , half of Everything Everywhere All at Once ’s directing duo , share that his loose bulb bit to reach out to Quan come from seeing a gif of Short Round on his Twitter timeline . “ I was like , he would be the right old age . What is that guy up to ? He was the first someone we auditioned for the role , and he became instantly our favorite , ” Kwan said . “ He ’s a sweetheart who is just full of joy , who just wants to play , who just wants to welcome you into that vim . That ’s the person we imagined when we were writing this theatrical role . ”

The admiration was on the face of it very mutual . “ aboveboard , I think the Daniels are freak out geniuses . ” Quan shared , “ They save this beautiful script which , when I first learn it , I cried and I laughed harder than [ at ] any script I ’d ever read . I know the great unwashed say this all the time , but it ’s so hard for an original movie to come by , and to a part of this original story , original motion picture , is just a real blessing . ”

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After Everything Everywhere All at Once , Quan will reunite with Yeoh onAmerican Born Chinese , Destin Daniel Cretton ’s adaptation of the 2006 graphic novel that centers on a teen and his immigrant family getting sweep up in a fight among Chinese gods .

A24 ’s Everything Everywhere All at Once open March 25th .

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