<!-- wp:html --><p>Carlos Barria</p>
<p>The unprecedented success of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the-trippy-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-transports-sxsw-to-the-hot-dog-fingered-multiverse"><em>Everything Everywhere All at Once</em></a> is undoubtedly this year’s biggest Oscar surprise. It’s a film far from the traditional awards bait that audiences typically see sweeping the cinema’s biggest night. But even beyond that welcome shock, there was a second astonishing outlier as a part of the film’s story. </p>
<p>Vietnamese-American actor <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/what-brendan-fraser-and-ke-huy-quans-emotional-comebacks-teach-us">Ke Huy Quan</a> had not appeared in a major studio film <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/indiana-jones-star-ke-huy-quan-reveals-backstory-behind-that-d23-harrison-ford-reunion">for more than two decades</a> before returning to the silver screen last year, as a grounding force in the Daniels’ off-the-walls movie.</p>
<p>Quan’s incredible comeback story had already made him the favorite to win, but with such a stacked category, nothing is ever guaranteed.</p>
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The unprecedented success of Everything Everywhere All at Once is undoubtedly this year’s biggest Oscar surprise. It’s a film far from the traditional awards bait that audiences typically see sweeping the cinema’s biggest night. But even beyond that welcome shock, there was a second astonishing outlier as a part of the film’s story.
Vietnamese-American actor Ke Huy Quan had not appeared in a major studio film for more than two decades before returning to the silver screen last year, as a grounding force in the Daniels’ off-the-walls movie.
Quan’s incredible comeback story had already made him the favorite to win, but with such a stacked category, nothing is ever guaranteed.
