Quan worked with everyone from a movement coach to a dialogue coach. In an interview with IndieWire, as part of the Awards Spotlight video series, Quan described the amount of work he put into nailing the role, which called for him to portray several different versions of Waymond. Having famously starred in beloved films like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies,” Quan was disappointed in the lack of roles available to him as an Asian actor, so he took a break from life in the spotlight that ended up lasting nearly 30 years.Īfter doing decades of behind the scenes work on projects like “X-Men” (2000), where he was the assistant fight coordinator, Quan got inspired by the success of “Crazy Rich Asians” in 2018 (which also happens to star Yeoh), and began auditioning again, landing his “Everything Everywhere All at Once” role shortly after. In his review of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” IndieWire’s film critic David Ehrlich called the actor “a sublime revelation.” In noting how Waymond is both Evelyn (Yeoh) and the audience’s guide into the film’s conception of the multiverse, he also said “few characters have ever been saddled with this much exposition, and even fewer have done as much with it.”
Quan played laundromat owner Waymond Wang in A24’s inventive multiversal dramedy helmed by writer-directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and worked opposite fellow Oscar nominees Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 50 Films the Director Wants You to See “Everything Everywhere All at Once” also won the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble.ĭjimon Hounsou: 'I Definitely Would Have Gotten an Oscar' If Spielberg's 'Amistad' Came Out TodayĪ24's Next Chapter: What to Expect After 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' The actor had also won at just about every awards precursor, accepting a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Critics Choice Award, Film Independent Spirit Award, and Gotham Award for his supporting performance.
The Best Supporting Actor win makes Quan the second ever Asian actor to win the category, and third Asian male actor overall to win an acting Oscar in the Academy Awards’ near-century long history.
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