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"

My journey began on a ship

. I spent a year in a refugee camp. Somehow I ended up here, on the biggest stage in Hollywood," said

Ke Huy Quan

with tears in his eyes, in

one of the most emotional speeches of Oscar night, just like the Golden Globes

.

The ovation was closed.

His story, after all, constitutes one of those stories of resurrection that move so much in Hollywood, a second chance, an unexpected return to relevance after decades of exile, and more for a character who has always been endearing, from the beginning. , since Steven Spielberg gave him the opportunity to become known worldwide in 1984 alongside a legend like Indiana Jones.

The 51-year-old actor said he had stopped acting for years because he saw few opportunities for Asian actors on the big screen.

"They say that stories like this only happen in movies," he added.

"I can't believe this is happening to me.

This is the American dream

."

The Oscar for best supporting actor for the Vietnamese Ke Huy Quan

has been one of the main attractions at the start of the ceremony held in Los Angeles.

Who does not remember Data in

The Goonies

or Tapón, driving with wooden platforms in

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

?

For that

immigrant of refugee parents,

they were his great moments of glory in the industry, diluted shortly after by the lack of opportunities as he grew older.

Ke Huy Quan, excited to collect the Oscar.EFE

Quan decided to quit acting and started working with specialists in the industry.

She enrolled in the film program at the University of Southern California (USC) and spent a decade participating in productions in the United States and Asia.

She came to work with Corey Yuen to

choreograph the fight scenes

in X-Men

in 2000.

Then the winds of inclusion and change began to blow in Hollywood, obsessed with correcting the historical discrimination that has characterized the industry for decades, and Quan saw an opportunity, inspired by the success of Crazy Rich Asians (Madly millionaires

)

.

The 51-year-old actor found an agent and two weeks later landed the role for which he has won no end of awards.

In

All At Once Everywhere

, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Quan plays the husband of a Chinese immigrant who runs a laundromat in a fast-paced, frenetic sci-fi film halfway between comedy and drama that has achieved more nominations than any other: 11. It competed with Brendan Gleeson, Brian Tyree Henry, Judd Hirsch and Barry Keoghan in the category, who was the great favorite after having won the Golden Globe, the Critics Choice Award and thirty other awards .

Her streak is hellish.

The decision to return has more than compensated him, despite many doubts, fearful of the public's reaction to see him so many years later.

"I was 50 years old when I decided to return to acting, and

it was not a decision I made lightly

," Quan said in an interview with the

Los Angeles Times

.

"It took courage to give voice to this dream that I had had, a dream that I had to walk away from and from which I thought I would not find a way back."

The dream was actually somewhat accidental.

He admits that he was not looking to be an actor

, but finding an opportunity with Spielberg and Harrison Ford made him change course at a very young age.

The problem was the subsequent downhill, when the phone stopped ringing, with the added difficulty of being an Asian actor, always typecast in certain roles that did not appeal to him.

Now he feels that everything has changed, that the representation on the small and big screen is more realistic for his people.

For this reason, among other things, he has decided to stop using the Jonathan that he set out to open more doors in the US market, and has reverted to his original given name, Ke.

An Oscar name.

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