Ke Huy Quan’sOscars 2023celebrations kept rolling into Monday night — or, at least, so his appearance onJimmy Kimmel Livewould have fans believe.
AsJimmy Kimmel, who hosted the awards show, praised Quan’s acceptance speech and triumphant reunion withHarrison FordasEverything Everywhere All at Oncewon Best Pictureat the 95th Academy Awards, the Best Supporting Actor winner himself walked out onto theJimmy Kimmel Livestage Monday, trophy in hand and still dressed as he was Sunday night.
“I’m looking for my car,” Quan, 51, joked to Kimmel, when asked what he was doing there.
“Wait, are you still up fromthe Oscarslast night?” the late-night host asked, to which Quan replied, “Aren’t you?”
“I will never go to sleep, Jimmy. I can’t let the best day of my life end,” he said during the segment, drawing applause from the audience.
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Quan’s win on Sunday was one of seven forEverything Everywhere All at Once, including wins for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress.
After the actor accepted his trophy on Sunday, Quan recalled to reporters in the press room how he was once advised to use “an American-sounding” stage name in the late 1980s and early 1990s as he explained why he was “so emotional” when he heard presenterAriana DeBosespeak his name onstage.
“When I started as a kid, it was my birth name, Ke Huy Quan. And I remembered when it got really tough, my manager told me that ‘maybe, you know, it would be easier if you were to have an American sounding name,’ and I was so desperate for a job that I would do anything,” the actor told reporters backstage.
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“And it’s insane that I at one point that I would, you know, try a different name, not the name that was given to me,” Quan added. “But it can only show you how desperate I was to try to make things different.”
Quan, who used the names Jonathan Ke Quan and Jonathan Quan at different points earlier in his career, told reporters when he resolved to return to acting in 2020 the “very first thing that I wanted to do was to go back to my birth given name.”
“Tonight, to see Ariana open that envelope and say Ke Huy Quan, that was a really, really special moment for me,” he added. “And then immediately I was so emotional.”
source: people.com
