“My mother is watching this at home. Mom, I have an Oscar! I thought this only happened in movies, but it happened to me,” exclaimed the South Vietnamese actor
the vietnamese interpreter Ke Huy Quan and the American Jamie Lee Curtis, both members of the cast of ‘Everything at once everywhere’, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively, at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood.
“My mother is watching this at home. Mom, I have an Oscar. (…) I thought this only happened in movies but it happened to me”Huy Quan expressed through tears after receiving the statuette from the winner in this section last year, Troy Kotsur.
The actor struggled with Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan (‘Inisherin’s Banshees’), Brian Tyree Henry (‘Causeway’) and Judd Hirsch (‘The Fabelmans’).
Huy Quan began his career as a child and was part of the cast of movie classics like ‘The Goonies’ or ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’the latter directed by Steven Spielberg.
The filmmaker now nominated for ‘The Fabelmans’, He observed with an evident face of happiness the triumph of the Vietnamese interpreter.
And it is that, after his ‘boom’ as a new actor, Huy Quan linked a decade in which he participated in low-budget films that did not transcend and from 2002 until last year he kept completely away from the big screen.
For his part, Lee Curtis collected the first golden statuette of his career thanking “hundreds of people” but, above all, to the directors of the film ‘Everything at the same time everywhere’, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
“This isn’t just me… We just won an Oscar!”exclaimed the interpreter from the stage of the Dolby Theater, where this new delivery of the Oscars is being held.
Angela Bassett (‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’), Hong Chau (‘The Whale’), Kerry Condon (‘Inisherin’s Banshees’) and Stephanie Hsu (‘Everything at the same time everywhere’) completed the shortlist of finalists competing with Lee Curtis.
Thus, she has managed to win the first time she has been nominated for an Oscar throughout a career of more than four decades that, among other genres, have established her as one of the most acclaimed faces of the horror genre in Hollywood.
During this awards season, the actress also won the award from the Actors Guild of the USA, popularly considered as ‘the thermometer of the Oscars’.