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Awards season darlings Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser are catching up for the primary time in many years!
At the twenty eighth annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night time, the Everything Everywhere All at Once star, 51, mirrored on seeing Fraser, 54, for the primary time in “almost 32 years” as they each took residence awards for finest supporting actor and finest actor, respectively.
“It was great to see him again. I love him in The Whale,” Quan informed reporters of Fraser, with whom he costarred within the 1992 comedy Encino Man, within the press room after accepting his award on Sunday. “What a powerful performance.”
Quan famous that Fraser “gave me a big hug and put his arm on my shoulder” once they “saw each other for the first time after 30 years” as each actors emerged as awards season contenders for his or her film comebacks in 2022.
“He put his hand on my shoulder and he said this, he was still here,” Quan informed reporters of his reunion with Fraser. “I will never forget those three words and it’s actually right.”
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“For me, I cannot believe I’m still here,” Quan added, in reference to how a lot time has handed since Encino Man. “It’s been a wild ride ever since that movie came out.”
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Quan and Fraser’s careers intersected once they made Encino Man. Fraser’s starring position within the movie as an unfrozen primitive human man dropped into the Nineties helped kickstart his performing profession, whereas the film proved certainly one of Quan’s final appearances in entrance of the digital camera earlier than he re-emerged in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
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Even after Quan received one other trophy on the eightieth Golden Globe Awards final Tuesday, the actor admitted to reporters that he was “so, so nervous” as he arrived on the Critics Choice Awards Sunday.
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“My heart is still pounding,” the actor stated of the expertise. “I just, every time I think about it, I think about those years that I was struggling. It’s so complicated. I don’t know, my mind, it’s so blurry right now.”
“I cannot believe I won this,” Quan continued. “I cannot believe I won Golden Globes on Tuesday. It’s incredible. I really am. I don’t know what to say aside from saying I feel very lucky, and I feel very grateful. And I thank [Everything Everywhere co-directors] the Daniels so, so, so much.”
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As Quan accepted his award on Sunday, he famous that his “comeback story could have been very different were it not for the critics.”
“You’ve not only helped audiences find our little movie but you’ve helped audiences remember who I am,” the actor stated of Everything Everywhere. “For that I am so grateful to you.”
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