Ke Huy Quan starred in Encino Man alongside fellow 2023 Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser, nonetheless who did he play inside the 90s comedy?
On Sunday, March 12, Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ninety fifth annual Academy Awards at Los Angeles’s Dolby Theatre. Everything Everywhere All At Once cleaned up – worthwhile seven Oscars of the eleven it was nominated for, along with Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.
Ke Huy Quan scored his first Oscar after worthwhile Best Supporting Actor for his operate as husband to Michelle Yeoh’s Chinese immigrant to the US in what is definite to be the film of the yr.
Brendan Fraser moreover bagged his first Academy Award this yr, taking home the Oscar for Best Actor for The Whale. These two even have one factor else in frequent, they’d been co-stars inside the 1992 film Encino Man.
Encino Man 1992
Encino Man is a comedy and director Les Mayfield’s directorial debut. In the film, whose slogan is “When the Stone Age meets the Rock Age,” two nerdy teenage boys from Encino, California, uncover a caveman frozen in a block of ice. After thawing out, he ought to study to navigate life inside the twentieth century.
Brendan Fraser carried out the Caveman, who is known as Link, in what turned his break-out operate. The stable moreover featured Lord Of The Rings and Stanger Things alum Sean Astin, in addition to Ke Huy Quan.
Ke Huy Quan carried out a laptop geek
Ke Huy Quan has a small operate inside the film. He performs a persona referred to as Kim who’s part of the laptop membership at Encino High School. In a short scene with Brendan Fraser, Ke invites Link to hitch the membership.
Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan reunite after 31 years
Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser had been reunited this Awards Season after 31 years. The pair attended a spherical desk meeting ahead of the Oscars and shared a heartwarming alternate.
After watching The Whale, Ke outlined that he spent two hours on the cellphone telling “everybody that [he] knows” to go and see it.
He moreover revealed that upon being reunited the pair shared a hug and Fraser said “Ke, we’re still here!”
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